Yemen

Do War Crimes In Yemen Matter To An American President?

August 11, 2015 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By William Boardman in Reader Support News - The American-backed genocidal war on Yemen is in its fifth month, making it one of the hotter issues in the 2016 Presidential campaign, right? Wrong. If ANY announced candidate has said anything about Yemen, it’s hard to find. None of our would-be leaders of the free world are calling for a halt to the war of aggression that violates international law, none are demanding a stop to the war crimes and crimes against humanity that flow from the terror-bombing carried out by Saudi Arabia and its allies, with US tactical and intelligence support. None of our White House aspirants are demanding a halt to this criminal war or demanding justice against its war-criminal perpetrators. Of course, neither is the present president, whose administration seems to have adopted a policy variant on the way we won the west (“the only good injun is a dead injun”).

Yemeni Genocide Proceeds Apace, Enjoying World’s Silence

July 13, 2015 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Genocide, ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By William Boardman - Turns out the United States and the Islamic State, ISIS, are de facto allies of Saudi Arabia and its alliance of dictator states, all bent on exterminating Yemeni Houthis and pretty much any other Yemeni in the neighborhood. This Yemenicide started in earnest in March 2015. After years of US drone strikes proved too slow and ineffective at wiping out people in the poorest country in the Arab world, it was time to expand the arsenal of war crimes. Rarely, in discussions of Yemen, does one hear much about the violations of international law that have reduced the country to its present war-torn and devastated condition. Failing to acknowledge a foreign policy disaster in Yemen, the Obama administration has chosen instead to trash international law by supporting the criminal, aggressive war that Saudi Arabia’s coalition of police states launched on Yemen on March 26.

US Finally Sends Long-Cleared Gitmo Prisoners To Oman

June 14, 2015 Carol Rosenberg, www.miamiherald.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Carol Rosenberg for the Miami Herald. U.S. troops delivered six long-held Yemeni prisoners from Guantánamo for resettlement in the Arabian Sea nation Oman on Friday, the Pentagon said early Saturday, resuming transfers that had been stalled for months. The mission reduced the detainee population at the prison camps to 116 captives, 51 cleared for transfers with security assurances from the nation taking them in. Among those released was Emad Hassan, 35, whose lawyers said had been on the prison hunger strike since 2007, and failed to get a judge to stop his forced-feedings. Hassan, captured in Pakistan in March 2002, became a devotee of the “Game of Thrones” series and Dan Brown novels from the prison library, according to his attorney Alka Pradhan. All six had been cleared for release for at least five years. None was ever charged with a crime. All were taken to the prison camps in the summer of 2002.

2 US Citizens Participate In Peace Boat To Yemen

May 8, 2015 Code Pink, www.codepink.org Resist! Iran, Peace, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Robert Naiman, Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy of Urbana, Illinois and art director of CODEPINK for Peace Tighe Barry of Washington, DC are in Iran to be passengers on a ship sponsored by the Iranian Red Crescent Society that will sail into the Persian Gulf to protest the attacks by Saudi Arabia on the civilian population of Yemen. The ship will not approach Yemeni waters but stay in the Persian Gulf. Naiman and Barry were on the CODEPINK delegation to Yemen in June, 2013 to talk with families of victims of U.S. assassin drone strikes and with families of Yemenis held in Guantanamo prison who had been cleared for release by the U.S. government but who are still imprisoned.

Tens Of Thousands Protest As US Ally Resigns In Yemen

January 26, 2015 AP, www.mashable.com Resist! Politics, Protest, Yemen

Tens of thousands of Yemenis marched in protest on Saturday against Shiite rebels who hold the capital, amid a power vacuum in a country that is home to what Washington describes as al-Qaeda's most dangerous offshoot. Some 20,000 hit the streets of capital Sanaa, where demonstrators converged on the house of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who resigned Thursday along with his cabinet. It was the largest protest since the rebels, known as Houthis, swept into Sanaa in September. Protesters carried banners, and chanted slogans denouncing the rebels and demanding the restoration of the president. Scuffles involving knives and batons broke out in one instance in Sanaa when rebels tried to block one procession, leaving two demonstrators and one Houthi injured.

Video: US & UK Pull Out Yemen Embassy Staff After Series of Drone Strikes

August 7, 2013 Jessica Desvarieux, www.therealnews.com Educate! Wars and Militarism, Yemen

The United States and U.K. have ordered all of their embassy staff to evacuate Yemen. This was following a likely U.S. drone strike which killed four alleged al-Qaeda terrorists. The drone strikes on Tuesday were the fourth strikes in two weeks. According to at least one local journalist, a U.S. drone strike on August 1 killed four civilians, including a child. Here to discuss all this is Robert Naiman. Robert is the policy director at Just Foreign Policy, and he writes on U.S. foreign policy for Huffington Post, Truthout, Al Jazeera English, and other publications. Thanks for being with us, Robert.

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