American Herald Tribune | �THOMAS C. MOUNTAIN : According to just released information sourced from the UN�s Food and�Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the FSNAU between October 2015 and�April 2016, a period of only six months, upwards of 400,000 Somali�s,�two thirds of whom were children, died of starvation.

And the famine, if anything, has gotten worse since then. Here the�world is now,�18 months later�and possibly a million more deaths,�bringing the number of children who have died from starvation in the�past 2 years in Somalia up to a million.

A million Somali children have starved to death in the past 24 months�and this crime goes unnoticed in the international media? There are a�lot of crimes being committed in the world today but can anyone say a�million and a half dead Somalis shouldn't be at the head of the list?

In the L.Shabelle region alone over 100,000 children under the age of�5 died of starvation from Oct. 2015 to April 2016 with the total�numbers of Somalis who expired from starvation there running up to�150,000.

In this time period 17.6% of the population of the L. Shabelle region�perished from hunger. That�s right, almost a fifth of the Somali people�in this region expired in only six months and the world stands by in�silence.

In the Banadir region up to 70,000 children starved to death with�another 32,000 over the age of 5 dying as well for a total of 16.6% of�the regions population lost to famine�in 6 months�alone.

In the M.Shabelle region 25,000 under 5 starved to death with the�region losing 9.7% of its people to famine�in six months. And the list�goes on and on, hundreds and hundreds of thousands, with everyday�another 2,000 Somalis dead from starvation and famine, a famine that�is continuing as I write.

What is it going to take for the international media to catch on to�this most insidious of crimes, for the world had the food to prevent�all these deaths, something the UN is supposed to be on top of.

But then one of the top dogs at the UN is the Executive Director of�UNICEF, supposedly the number one (N)o (G)ood (O)utfit with the�responsibility to prevent this crime, headed by former National�Security Advisor to Pres. Clinton and later failed nominee to head the�CIA , Anthony Lake, whose appointment was a favor returned by Pres.�Obama. Loyalty to empire can have its rewards in the form of being�overlord of a multi-billion dollar a year aid empire internationally,�UNICEF, and the ability to carry out �long term solutions� as in�genocide by starvation of the Somali people.

Tony Lake has a dark history of overseeing mass murder by violence or�starvation in Africa going back to the Rwanda Genocide in 1994 when he��regretted not doing anything� to stop the mass killings. It was just�a few years ago the UN admitted that 250,000 Somalis, again, 2/3 under�5, had died in what they then were calling the �Great Horn of African�Drought�, all under Tony Lake�s watchful eye.

Hey, there is a �Somali Problem�, terrorism and Al Shabab, and so who�will care if a million Somali children are allowed to die of�starvation, the less Somalis the better, right?

That�s why it�s called genocide by starvation, 2,000 a day as I write,�with the silence of the media lambs all to deafening. Shouldn't the�silence about this preeminent crime cause those who claim the mantel�of human rights in their corner offices in NYC and London to expose�and incite journalistic flagellation by those presstitutes writing for�failing newspapers or braying on the airways?

A million dead Somali kids? Who is really going to give a damn anyway,�this is old news, it has always been this way, right?