26, August 2018 US Complicit in Saudi War Crimes
In examples of mind numbing hypocrisy, President Trump and his officials, ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, and his National Security Advisor John Bolton, like to stand in front of cameras and lecture other nations about the “need to change behavior”, while simultaneously aiding and abetting Saudi Arabia’s war crimes in Yemen.
The 500-pound laser-guided MK 82 bomb, which the coalition dropped on August 9, killed 51 people, including 40 children.
In May 2017, on his first stop abroad after taking office, Trump gleefully signed a $110 billion arms deal with the Saudi king in Riyadh unconcerned of the devastating impact on Yemini civilians.
British officials should also be targeted for public shaming, because of their government’s prominent role in supplying offensive munitions to the Saudi Kingdom. US economic sanctions are also responsible for the premature death of untold numbers of children around the world. This week, the UN and various civilian aid agencies warned that North Korea was facing a “food crisis” because Washington is stepping up its economic sanctions.
The medieval use of sieges on populations to starve them into submission is a heinous use of coercion and is an extreme violation of international humanitarian law.
On April 23, 2018, Saudi
aircraft dropped cluster
bombs made by Raytheon on a wedding in Yemen, killing 22 people, including many
children. These weapons are banned by the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which
prohibits all use, stockpiling, production and transfer of cluster munitions.
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