dead Yemen child shirt

USA er en af hovedstøtterne i den saudisk førte krig imod Yemen. USA forsynede våbnene, og ydede det meste af den militære og strategiske taktik. Se her, her, her, her, her og her. (Og se dette for baggrunden til krigen i Yemen.)

Det saudiske og amerikanske militær begår krigsforbrydelser til højre og venstre...

For eksempel, en rapport fra FNs børnefond bemærker:
Angreb på skoler og hospitaler og nægtelsen af humanitær hjælp til børn fortsætter med at ske. FN verificerede 51 angreb på uddannelsesfaciliteter, deriblandt skoler og personale.

Kommentar: Denne artikel er blot delvis oversat til dansk af sott.net fra: U.S. & Saudis committing 'absolutely horrific' war crimes in Yemen


Human Rights Watch reports:
"Even after dozens of airstrikes on markets, schools, hospitals, and residential neighborhoods have killed hundreds of Yemeni civilians, the coalition refuses to provide redress or change its practices," [Human Rights Watch] said. "The US and others should pull the plug on arms to the Saudis or further share responsibility for civilian lives lost."
Indeed, in a single attack last month, almost 100 civilians were killed:
The March 15 attack targeted a crowded market in the village of Mastaba in northwestern Yemen, killing at least 97 civilians, including 25 children. HRW said it found remnants of a "GBU-31 satellite-guided bomb, which consists of a U.S.-supplied MK-84 2,000-pound bomb mated with a JDAM satellite guidance kit, also U.S.-supplied."
Even worse, hundreds of thousands of kids are starving to death.

The UNICEF report notes that - due to the actions of the U.S. and Saudis - Yemen is experiencing mass starvation on a scale last seen in Ethiopa:
Over 320,000 [children] are at risk of severe acute malnutrition ....
But the real numbers may be much worse. For example, Oxfam wrote last year:
Since the start of the conflict, nearly 25,000 additional people are going hungry each day in Yemen as the blockade and fighting restrict food, fuel and other vital supplies, Oxfam warned today.

One in two people - nearly 13 million people - are now struggling to find enough to eat, and half of them are on the brink of starvation. This is an increase of 2.3 million people since the escalation in fighting and beginning of the blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition in March 2015. In a country that has historically faced food shortages, this is the highest ever recorded number of people living in hunger.

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Over a three month period from March 26 (the beginning of the airstrikes and the blockade) - June 26, 2015, the number of people with limited access to food increased by a staggering 2.3 million people from 10.6 to 12.9; the equivalent of nearly 25,000 extra people a day.
The pictures are absolutely horrific.