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...and Yemen!

yield said:
Any possibility of the Saudis agreeing to the ceasefire?
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even if they would stop their campaign tomorrow they would have left the country in such a fractionally divided and economically broken state that wouldn't allow Yemen to leave conflict behind and rebuild for decades to come. bleak as.
 
It doesn't matter if your selling the smartest of smart weapons if your handing them to the Saudis they are just going to shoot them at whatever
Armed forces of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia
on paper, they should be easily able to crush the Yemen force Abrahams and Apaches vs pick up trucks plus top quality jet fighters.
Except its the Saudi's nothing like a competent military.
 
Senate Passes S.J.Res.54

WASHINGTON--This afternoon, 56 US senators voted in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 54, formally titled “A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.” The Yemen Peace Project--along with a broad coalition of advocacy organizations and NGOs--has been working to generate support for this measure for more than a year, and we applaud the bipartisan majority that passed the resolution for taking courageous and unprecedented action to end US support for the Saudi-led coalition’s intervention into Yemen’s civil war. ...
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teqniq said:
Senate Passes S.J.Res.54
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That's great, but the House blocked the Senate bill so the lethal aid to the Saudis will continue....
By three votes, the House of Representatives advanced a farm bill, but not before the Republican leadership slipped in a provision that would turn off any possibility of the Congress's fast-tracking an effort to turn off American aid to Saudi Arabia due to that country's abominable war in Yemen....That's how Paul Ryan will leave Congress, complicit in the death by starvation of children he doesn't even know. That's the smoking gun in his hand.
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House Republicans Insert Yemen War Clause in Farm Bill for Last Act of Paul Ryan Tenure as Speaker
 
Good.

In angry letter, UK 'pressures' Germany to resume Saudi arms sales

Britain's Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt has urged Germany to rethink halting exports to Saudi Arabia, penning an angry letter to his counterpart Heiko Maas saying the decision could jeopardise crucial arms deals with Saudi Arabia.

"I am very concerned about the impact of the German government's decision on the British and European defence industry and the consequences for Europe's ability to fulfil its NATO commitments," the British minister wrote according to German newspaper Der Spiegel.

Germany banned exporting arms to Saudi Arabia in October following the Saudi state-sanctioned murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul.

As German parts for missiles and fighter jets cannot be sent to Saudi Arabia under the ban, the UK may not be able to fulfil many of its lucrative arms contracts with the Saudi regime....
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teqniq said:
UK and US bombs caused nearly 1,000 civilian casualties in Yemen, damning report finds
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Very conservative estimates.
The 128-page investigation, spearheaded by the US-based University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) and Yemeni monitoring group Mwatana, investigated 27 apparently unlawful airstrikes launched in Yemen by the Gulf alliance between April 2015 and April 2018.

They found that in every one of these sorties, US or UK made weapons were probably used, killing at least 203 people and injuring nearly 750. Over 120 children, meanwhile, and at least 56 women were among the dead and wounded.

These 27 strikes were the only incidents which the researchers were able to collate sufficient evidence for – access in Yemen is heavily restricted. But Mwatana found that in 2018 alone there were 128 apparently unlawful airstrikes.
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This is laughable considering that weaponry supplied by the U.S. to Saudi and the UAE have ended up in the hands of extremist militias, see above.

The White House has already threatened to veto the legislation, which it says is flawed and could undermine the fight against extremism.
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I slipped this into the Saudi thread. Please add your name to the petition. (enough to make your blood boil?).
hash tag said:
I have just received this from CAAT, please feel free to add your name to the petition.

Yesterday, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt argued that stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia would be "morally bankrupt" as it would mean a loss of UK influence. In fact, the Royal Saudi Air Force could not operate without UK and US support. Please share the petition to stop the arms sales at caat.org.uk/stop-arming-saudi-petition

Yesterday the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt claimed that ending the UK's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE would be "morally bankrupt."

Yes, that’s right… Ending the arms sales would be "morally bankrupt."

Jeremy Hunt was writing to mark "four devastating years of conflict in Yemen."

That is four years since the Saudi-led coalition launched its first airstrikes in Yemen. Four devastating years in which 60,000 have been people killed by the conflict, and many more have died as a result of the humanitarian catastrophe that has ensued.

Attacks have hit schools, hospitals, weddings, funerals, food supplies and a bus full of school children.

But this war couldn't have happened without the support of arms suppliers such as the UK.

The coalition is deploying UK made aircraft in combat missions, dropping UK-made bombs and firing UK-made missiles. A recent report by Yemeni research group Mwatana for Human Rights documented the likely use of UK-made munitions in five attacks on civilian facilities.

The UK government has enabled the war with more than £5 billion of arms sales, military support and training.

If the government stopped the arms sales, it could help stop the war – and it must do so.

Thousands of you have signed our petition to Jeremy Hunt telling him exactly this. Thank you!

Now can you share it and ask your friends to add their voice?

caat.org.uk/stop-arming-saudi-petition

Next month CAAT's legal challenge to the arms sales continues in the Court of Appeal, but Yemen can't wait: we need to keep the pressure on now.

Thank you for your support.


Sarah
Campaign Against Arms Trade

P.S. There was some good news yesterday too, when five opposition parties also called on the Foreign Secretary to Stop Arming Saudi Arabia. Don’t forget to share the petition at caat.org.uk/stop-arming-saudi-petition
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Taiz used to be a culturally very important city in the South of the country (even used to be the capital).
I remember recording studios, radio stations, and a thriving community of musicians, unlike anywhere else in Yemen.
Since the beginning of the war Taiz had it very hard. Bombing raids, cholera, total isolation, no food, no water, no media to report. I have lost contact with everybody I have known there.
Things are anything but improving for the people of Taiz:

www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2019/4/3/taiz-another-saudi-led-coalition-failure-in-yemen
 
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