The Weaponization of Culture and Objects

The use of epistemological attacks concerning species life or reproduction have escalated in to polarized conflicts and war. Humans need to sustain as a species:

Oxygen

Food Water

Clothing Shelter

Reproduction

The elementary epistemology of  Humans:

See

Hear

Taste

Smell

Touch

The criminalization or the imposing of a racketeered influenced structure over the individual weaponizes the basic minimum to survive. One would live for maybe two weeks at the very most without water. One month is the outer boundary for lack of food. A person could become brain dead in only minutes without oxygen.

The external environment especially the extremes of heat and cold help despotism criminalize life itself. 

Yemen is a solid example to where access to food, water, clothing, shelter, and medical attention are controlled by warring militias and factions.

Religious epistemology is also a contributing factor in the morbidity of the population. Different interpretations of Islam are driving conflict.

The United States and Gulf state actors support the conflict. The Houthis are Shiites aligned with Iran and in January 2015, rebelled leading President 

Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi to resign whom was leading the Sunni government.

Amnesty International reports that the intervention of regional powers in Yemen’s conflict, including Iran and Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia, threatens to draw the country into the broader Sunni Shia divide. Numerous Iranian weapons shipments to Houthi rebels have been intercepted in the Gulf of Aden by a Saudi naval blockade in place since April 2015. In response, Iran has dispatched its own naval convoy, which further risks military escalation between the two countries.

The conflict continues to exact a heavy toll on Yemeni civilians. Yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The UN estimates that 60 percent of the estimated 377,000 deaths in Yemen since 2015 are the result of indirect causes like food insecurity and lack of accessible health services. Nearly 74 percent, or twenty five million Yemenis, remain in need of assistance. Five million are at risk of famine, and a cholera outbreak has affected over one million people. All sides of the conflict are reported to have violated human rights and international humanitarian law.

The use of Prisoner's Dilemma to divide and conquer and or marginalize is easily demonstrated by the regional and international hegemons to continue what borders on genocide.

Democracy is not stable nor is the human repertoire. Lawlessness and economic hardship distract for any attempt by NGO's to act decisively. These issues are replicable over time any where.

Hence this defection not the cooperation of the rule of law. 

https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-yemen