Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine

“It is safe to say that many people are going to die as a result of little or no access,” Mr. James said.

Oh your Starving ? Your children are dying ? you are trying to flee the country to Ethiopia so you may get help ? Oh no, you must go to prison now.

Al Shabab, is ensuring the deaths of thousands of people by denying Aid and denying people the ability to leave to one of two places where they can get the help they need, and one of those is known for its starving and destitute people.

Islam, the Religion of we will starve you to death before accepting Aid from the West.


The New York Times
somalia — The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory.

The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by forcing out many Western aid organizations, depriving drought victims of desperately needed food. The situation is growing bleaker by the day, with tens of thousands of Somalis already dead and more than 500,000 children on the brink of starvation.

Every morning, emaciated parents with emaciated children stagger into Banadir Hospital, a shell of a building with floors that stink of diesel fuel because that is all the nurses have to fight off the flies. Babies are dying because of the lack of equipment and medicine. Some get hooked up to adult-size intravenous drips — pediatric versions are hard to find — and their compromised bodies cannot handle the volume of fluid.

Most parents do not have money for medicine, so entire families sit on old-fashioned cholera beds, with basketball-size holes cut out of the middle, taking turns going to the bathroom as diarrhea streams out of them.