Over 5,000 dead. 12,000 wounded. Millions forcibly displaced.
Tragic figures from Gaza? Think again: Those are the casualty figures after six months of fighting in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), according to Amnesty International. In July, a mass grave was found containing the bodies of 87 civilians in Darfur in the west of Sudan. The New York Times reported that the civilians were likely killed by RSF soldiers fighting for one of the two generals contesting control of Sudan. Four and a half million people have been displaced. More than a million other Sudanese citizens have sought shelter in the surrounding countries of Chad, Egypt, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. The Wagner Group, the private Russian army that was run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has established a base in Darfur and is advising one of the sides in the conflict. Russia is seeking influence in Sudan so they can be permitted to station their warships at a port along Sudan’s Red Sea coastline.
How about Yemen, the country with coasts on both the Red and Arabian seas, including the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait between Yemen, Djibouti, and Eritrea? What is happening in that incredibly strategic part of the world? How about nearly 400,000 killed, with 11,000 of them children, nearly 60 percent of the deaths from hunger, lack of healthcare and safe water. According to the U.N., 4.5 million Yemenis – one in seven of the country’s population – have been displaced in the eight years of fighting between Houthi rebels and Yemen’s floundering government.
In the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, there has been a civil war going on since a military coup d’etat in 2021. According to Sky News, more than 6,000 civilians have been killed, with more than 3,000 of those deaths coming in the last 12 months. The U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian affairs reported that more than 1.6 million people have been internally displaced and 40,000 have fled Myanmar into neighboring countries. As many as 55,000 civilian buildings have been destroyed in the fighting.
Let’s not forget Ukraine. Since Russia launched its illegal attack on Ukraine in February of 2022, nearly 10,000 civilians have been killed, according to the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. Nearly 18,000 civilians have been wounded. The Pentagon estimates that as many as 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, and somewhere between 100,000 and 120,000 have been wounded. The U.S. estimates that more than 120,000 Russian troops have been killed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and as many as 180,000 have been wounded. Ukraine is the breadbasket of Eastern Europe. Agricultural land in the country’s east has been decimated by bombs and artillery, and grain shipments from Ukraine’s port, Odessa, have been either stopped completely by Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s coastline in the Black Sea, or severely compromised….
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/27/the-world-is-coming-apart-at-the-seams/
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