Addis Abeba – The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously passed bipartisan Senate resolution on Thursday “condemning the use of starvation and hunger as weapons of war,” according to a statement from the Committee.
Where appropriate, the resolution calls on the U.S. government to ensure that the use of hunger as a weapon of war is “considered within the employment of tools to hold individuals, governments,militias, or entities responsible such as the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 2656),” as well as “taking into consideration the need for humanitarian exemptions and the protection of life saving assistance.”
Sponsored by Senator Jim Risch, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who joined Senators Jeff Merkley, Todd Young, Cory Booker, John Thune, and Bob Menendez, the resolution condemns the use of hunger as a weapon of war through: “starvation of civilians; intentional and reckless destruction, removing, looting, or rendering useless objects necessary for food production and distribution such as farmland, markets, mills, food processing and storage areas, foodstuffs, crops, livestock, agricultural assets, waterways, water systems, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation works; denial of humanitarian access and the deprivation of objects indispensable to people’s survival, such as food supplies and nutrition resources; and willful interruption of market systems to affected populations in need...
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