Yemen: Dozens killed in Suadi-led air strikes

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37813569

A prison was the new target for the ongoing air strikes led by the Saudi coalition. It has been reported that 60 rebels and inmates were among the dead. This prison is located in Al Hudaydah, which the rebels have taken over through their battles against the government since September 2014. The coalition supports the former president of Yemen, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, who has been in exile since September 2014 when he escaped to Saudi Arabia from house arrest. 

It is not that there aren't any implications of this particular story itself and that this specific story should be ignored, but it is that if we were to only focus on this article, we would easily forget that is is not an isolated event in Yemen. People have been dying and suffering for two years now. 

A lot of people wonder why the Middle East is such a much and why the rise of terrorist "organizations" has come about. We forget that when a central government is destabilized (whether the government is good or not), the struggle for power and rebuilding a structure ensues a lot of chaos and violence, leaving innocent civilians to suffer. This fear, disparity and powerlessness of the common people makes room for groups to come in and use that to take over control. When you're struggling and there seems to be no way out, and you see that there are people that sound like they can help you, you take them up. You can try to blame religion, culture, and the lack of a sense of community/unity, but these factors are never the underlying theme of wars and rise of "evil." The common theme is that struggle, that a failing system, a refusal to work in the interest of all people, that pushes people to the extremes. The consequences of working in self-interest and running after power are always catastrophic. 

There are many things that bother me when I read about such occurrences, but I think the thing that gets me the most is what the rest of the world does in face of it. 

When you read more and more about the Middle East, you find that the system of allies is what aids attacks. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but the US and UK do a lot of arms and ammunition trade with Saudi Arabia. You cannot sit and condemn and continue to provide them with weapons to take innocent lives and then pretend like you have nothing to do with it.