Earlier quoted context omitted.
> preposterously low accounts of the death toll - usually treating the hundred of millions of children dead from famine as collateral damage Quick google puts the population of Yemen at about 28 million. This immediately makes me suspect everything else in your comment is exaggerated or false.
Yeah, big typo there - should have said hundreds of thousands (as indicated in the sources cited, including the OP) - but too late to edit now :) I'm not sure even World War II had a death toll that high.
50 Millions