This carnage of crimes against humanity -- inflicted largely with international silence and certainly a shameful muteness from the UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon -- is against the horrendous backdrop of nearly half of Yemen's 24 million population facing starvation because of a sea and air blockade imposed on the country by the Western-Saudi-led coalition.
This is nothing short of genocide -- committed against the poorest Muslim nation in the Arab region.
But never mind. Let's cut to a "prayer-break." Perversely, the House of Saud -- the self-declared custodian of Islamic sanctities -- dares at the same time to host the annual Hajj pilgrimage. If the latter ritual is supposed to offer thanks and obedience to the Almighty, the sickening audacity is surely tempting fate.
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