US-Backed Coalition Just Slaughtered Dozens of Children Under 10-Years-old by Bombing a Bus Full of Kids

in #news6 years ago

 Through multiple Democratic and Republican presidential  administrations, of Bush, Obama, and Trump, the United States military  has been on a steady march of conquest throughout the Middle East and  Africa. 

The cover story for so many years of nonstop military action has  been “fighting terrorism” but for anyone paying attention, it should be  obvious that their true goal is empire building at the expense of  innocent children. 

US-backed bombings and terrorist rebel groups have made areas in  Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and other countries completely  uninhabitable, causing an untold number of deaths and creating a massive  refugee crisis. In recent years, the situation in Yemen has become  increasingly dangerous and deadly,  thanks to a US-Saudi led coalition which is bombing civilian targets in  the country and created a blockade that has cut off millions of Yemeni  people from the outside world. 

This week, The Guardian reported  that a brand new US-Saudi airstrike hit a civilian bus in northern  Yemen killing at least 43 people, most of whom were children. 

The International Committee of the Red Cross were stationed at a  local hospital that worked to help the injured and identify the  deceased. Under international humanitarian law, civilians must be  protected during conflict. Scores killed, even more injured, most under  the age of 10,” Johannes Bruwer, of the ICRC Yemen delegation said.  

https://twitter.com/JohannesBruwer1/status/1027483425287143427

 Abdul-Ghani Nayeb, a health department chief in Sa’ada, told Reuters that 43 people were killed and at least 61 injured. As usual, the perpetrators of this violence are claiming that they  did nothing wrong and that they simply hit a military target. 

The  civilians killed are merely considered collateral damage or a means to  an end. A statement released by the Saudi state press called the strike a “legitimate military action” and said that “[The airstrikes] conformed to international and humanitarian laws.” The statement went on to accuse the victims of using children as  human shields as if this somehow explains the large number of child  casualties. 

This attack is just one small incident in a much larger bombing  campaign which has displaced over 50,500 households, according to the UN  Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). 

“We’ve said this before and we are saying it again: parties to  the conflict are obliged to do everything possible to protect civilians  and civilian infrastructure. This is not a voluntary commitment, it is  mandatory on all belligerents. So many people have died in Yemen – this  conflict has to stop,” Lise Grande, the UN’s Yemen humanitarian coordinator, told The Guardian on Thursday. 

The current situation in Yemen has become recognized by many experts  as the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis. In addition to the constant  bombing, the blockade of the country has led to a massive outbreak of  Cholera, a horrific illness that could be solved very easily if people  just had access to clean water. 

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Yemen is in the midst of a Cholera outbreak of “unprecedented scale.” In fact, this is the worst outbreak of its kind in recorded history. A statement issued by UNICEF and WHO executive directors said: 

“This deadly cholera outbreak is the direct  consequence of two years of heavy conflict. Collapsing health,  water, and sanitation systems have cut off 14.5 million people from  regular access to clean water and sanitation, increasing the ability of  the disease to spread. Rising rates of malnutrition have weakened  children’s health and made them more vulnerable to disease. An estimated  30,000 dedicated local health workers who play the largest role in  ending this outbreak have not been paid their salaries for nearly 10  months.”

Last week, the WHO warned of a new surge in illnesses, and asked for a  ceasefire so clean water and medical workers could reach the ill and  wounded. 

“We’ve had two major waves of cholera epidemics in recent years  and unfortunately the trend data that we’ve seen in the last days to  weeks suggests that we may be on the cusp of the third major wave of  cholera epidemics in Yemen. We’re calling on all parties to the conflict  to act in accordance with international humanitarian law and to respect  the request of the U.N. and international community for three full days  of tranquillity and to lay down arms to allow us to vaccinate the  civilian population for cholera,” WHO emergency response chief Peter Salama told reporters in Geneva. 

Obviously, with news of fresh bombings this week, the coalition has  no interest in agreeing to a ceasefire. This should come as no surprise  considering the fact that the whole strategy behind a blockade is to  create a humanitarian crisis. 

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This makes me sick. I feel so helpless every time I read this shit. God I'm so sick of it all.... How anyone can think this is OK is beyond me. Everyone everywhere wants peace. Except the very few assholes that continue to profit from war. I'm a pacifist to the core but if I knew which warmongering skulls to pop, I'd pop every one and never lose a minutes sleep over it. But then, there are probably many waiting to fill any vacancies created in the lucrative business of killing.... Sad

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sad sad sad sad. for them war is business for us its costing innocent lives.
wake up humanity

Funny how the media didn't ever seem to give a shit about that war when they Nobel Prize winner started it.

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