What America’s Weapons Are Doing to Yemen — sources

Sources for 2019 The Nib statistics comic about the Yemen War.

- SIPRI: TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRANSFERS, 2017
https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2018-03/fssipri_at2017_0.pdf
— Andrew Cockburn: acceptable losses
https://harpers.org/archive/2016/09/acceptable-losses/
- cnn: Yemen bus attack:
Saudi-led coalition admits to ‘mistakes’
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/01/middleeast/saudi-coalition-yemen-attack/index.html
- new york times: Saudi-Led Coalition Says It Bombed Yemen Funeral Based on False Information
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/world/middleeast/saudi-led-coalition-says-it-bombed-yemen-funeral-
based-on-false-information.html
— chicago tribune: 50,000 children in Yemen have died of
starvation and disease so far this year,
monitoring group says
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-save-the-children-yemen-20171116-story.html

100,000 death toll estimate:
- 50,000 in combat: acled https://www.acleddata.com/dashboard/
- 50,000 from starvation: save the children

500,000 estimate:
THE WAR NERD: ANGLO-AMERICAN MEDIA
COMPLICITY IN YEMEN’S GENOCIDE http://exiledonline.com/
the-war-nerd-anglo-american-media-complicity-in-yemens-genocide/

Amanda Taub: Why Some Wars (Like Syria’s) Get More Attention Than Others (Like Yemen’s) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/world/why-some-wars-like-syrias-get-more-attention-than-others-like-yemens.html
MATT TAIBBI: Why We Know So Little About the U.S.-Backed War in Yemen https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/yemen-war-united-states-704187/
THE WAR NERD: ANGLO-AMERICAN MEDIA COMPLICITY IN YEMEN’S GENOCIDE http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-anglo-american-media-complicity-in-yemens-genocide/
Kareem Fahim: The deadly war in Yemen rages on. So why does the death toll stand still? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-deadly-war-in-yemen-rages-on-so-why-does-the-death-toll-stand-still-/2018/08/02/e6d9ebca-9022-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html?utm_term=.ce7fa66d5851