Slaughterhouse 17 - selling smart bombs to shitheads

[Joseph Tracy]

Maybe the US-supported Saudi head of the UN human rights commission can look into this.  

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52208#.VnQrHbT1HzJ <http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52208#.VnQrHbT1HzJ>According to State of the Crisis: Explosive Weapons in Yemen, a publication produced by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which Mr. O’Brien heads, and the United Kingdom-based charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), Yemen is the worst country for civilian deaths and injuries from explosive weapon use in the first seven months of 2015.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/yemen-saudi-arabia-bombing-war-civilians <http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/yemen-saudi-arabia-bombing-war-civilians>
Mother Jones:   While Saudi Arabia claims that it is targeting Houthi fighters and military installations, human rights groups and the United Nations have found the coalition's air campaign has mostly affected civilians. Since March, more than 2,000 civilians have died and another 4,000 have been injured, most of them killed in the air campaign, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. A new UN report states that 86 percent of casualties in the ongoing violence have been civilians. The Saudi coalition has repeatedly targeted schools, hospitals, and religious buildings. Civilian infrastructure, including a camp for displaced people, water supplies, and power stations, have been destroyed. Civilian hospitals—overloaded with patients injured by airstrikes yet painfully under-supplied because of coalition blockades—are nearing collapse. In late June, the UN envoy to Yemen said the country was "one step away from famine." And in August, the UN's World Food Programme said the blockades were contributing to pushing 6 million of the country's inhabitants to the brink of starvation. Peter Maurer, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross observed, "Yemen after five months looks like Syria after five years."


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