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Yemen on the Brink of Disaster, Poverty, and Extinction

6Nov

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Human Rights, Yemen

Yemen on the Brink of Disaster, Poverty, and Extinction

By Viktor Mikhin – New Eastern Outlook UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder has just returned from Yemen with some tragic news about children living in what the United Nations calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, he said: “The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone: 10,000 children have been killed or maimed since Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign started in March 2015. That’s the equivalent of four children every day.” Elder told reporters that the estimates provided by the international UN agency were likely an understatement of the actual number of children killed and injured, which is rarely recorded by anyone. “These are of course the cases the UN was able to verify. Many more child deaths and injuries go unreco...

Smearing the Movement for Peace in Yemen

4Nov

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Yemen

Smearing the Movement for Peace in Yemen

BY CHARLES PIERSON Photograph Source: Felton Davis – CC BY 2.0 The National Interest, the neoconservative foreign policy journal, has published a vicious smear job on four groups working to end Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen (William R. Hawkins, “In Attacking Yemen War, Some Americans Call for Abandoning Allies,” National Interest, Oct. 12, 2021). The author maligns Code Pink, the Yemen Alliance Committee, the Yemeni Liberation Movement, and Just Foreign Policy, while whitewashing the US, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates which have murdered tens of thousands of innocent Yemenis since 2015, turning Yemen into what the UN calls the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Defending the Indefensible The National Interest identifies Hawkins...

CHILDREN KILLED IN YEMEN BY SAUDI-LED AIRSTRIKES DAYS BEFORE AND AFTER UK ARMS SALES RESUME

28Sep

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Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Yemen

CHILDREN KILLED IN YEMEN BY SAUDI-LED AIRSTRIKES DAYS BEFORE AND AFTER UK ARMS SALES RESUME

Airstrikes in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition killed eight children shortly before and after the UK government claimed there was ‘not a clear risk’ of British weapons being used for war crimes, Declassified has found. PHIL MILLER UK trade secretary Liz Truss has decided to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia. (Photo: Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street) The UK government’s claim that it is safe to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen is already in question after evidence has emerged of children being killed in a series of airstrikes shortly before and after the decision was taken. Trade Secretary Liz Truss announced on 7 July that she would begin licensing new arms exports to Saudi Arabia a year after a London court ordered the government...

SAUDI PILOT KILLED IN YEMEN WAS TRAINED BY BRITAIN, MINISTER ADMITS

28Sep

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Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Yemen

SAUDI PILOT KILLED IN YEMEN WAS TRAINED BY BRITAIN, MINISTER ADMITS

A Saudi air force officer who crashed while undertaking ‘operational tasks’ over Yemen was taught to fly by Britain’s Royal Air Force and arms corporation BAE Systems, the UK government has confirmed. PHIL MILLER Saudi pilot Muhanna Al-Baiz trained in the UK. (Photo: Royal Saudi Air Force) First confirmation of a UK-trained pilot conducting bombing missions in Yemen Revelation provides further evidence that UK plays key role in Yemen warLieutenant Colonel Muhanna Al-Baiz was killed in 2017 after receiving training by RAF and “continuation training” in Saudi Arabia by BAE Systems A British minister has admitted for the first time that a UK-trained Saudi pilot fought in Yemen, a conflict which has caused the world’s worst humanitarian disaster with millions of people on...

DAYS AFTER KHASHOGGI KILLING, BRITISH MILITARY SOLD CRUCIAL SPARE PARTS TO SAUDI AIR FORCE BOMBING YEMEN

27Sep

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Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Yemen

DAYS AFTER KHASHOGGI KILLING, BRITISH MILITARY SOLD CRUCIAL SPARE PARTS TO SAUDI AIR FORCE BOMBING YEMEN

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi criticised the Saudi regime for its ‘cruel war’ in Yemen and weeks later it murdered him, sparking an international outcry. But while his fiancée frantically searched for his body, Britain’s military quietly sold spare parts to Saudi Arabia’s air force, so it could keep bombing Yemen. And that arms deal is just one in a series of controversial weapons exports uncovered by Declassified UK. PHIL MILLER A candlelight vigil for Jamal Khashoggi outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo: Chris McGrath / Getty Images) Last week Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson toured a sparkling aircraft factory in the north of England, elbow bumping its young and diverse apprentices to highlight his investment in a futuristic fighter jet for UK forc...

BAE SYSTEMS SOLD WEAPONRY WORTH £17.6BN TO SAUDIS DURING YEMEN WAR

27Sep

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Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Yemen

BAE SYSTEMS SOLD WEAPONRY WORTH £17.6BN TO SAUDIS DURING YEMEN WAR

The scale of British arms sales to Riyadh rises again amid secrecy over a meeting between BAE and trade minister Liam Fox after the Khashoggi killing. Documents show both the UK trade ministry and BAE sought to keep arming Saudi Arabia in the immediate wake of the dissident’s murder. PHIL MILLER Sir Roger Carr, Chairman of BAE Systems (Photo: Oli Scarff / Getty Images) Records obtained by Campaign Against Arms Trade reveal BAE continued seeking to sell Saudi Arabia Typhoon warplanes 16 days after Khashoggi killingLiam Fox was briefed by UK trade ministry four weeks after the killing to enquire about BAE’s negotiations and reminded that “Saudi Arabia remains the UK’s largest defence export customer” Britain’s largest arms company, BAE Systems, has sold £17.6-billion worth of ai...

25Sep

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United Kingdom, Yemen

UK TROOPS ‘SECRETLY OPERATING IN YEMEN’

Britain has a secret detachment of up to 30 troops in Yemen, where they are training Saudi forces amid the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, Declassified has discovered. NASEH SHAKER, PHIL MILLER AND MARK CURTIS A Saudi C-130 plane at Al-Ghaydah airport, where British troops are believed to be based. (Photo: Saudi military) The British personnel are said to be based at Al-Ghaydah airport in Mahra province of eastern Yemen, where Human Rights Watch says Saudi forces run a prison camp in which detainees are subject to torture and extraordinary rendition. British troops are believed to have been based at the airport for months. A local journalist who was embedded with Saudi forces at the airport, Naser Hakem Abdullah Awidh, told Declassified&nb...

‘This Is Big’: House Passes Amendment to Cut US Complicity in Saudi Bombing of Yemen

22Sep

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Saudi Arabia, USA, Yemen, ZIO-NAZI

‘This Is Big’: House Passes Amendment to Cut US Complicity in Saudi Bombing of Yemen

The vote, said Rep. Ro Khanna, "sent a clear message to the Saudis: end the bombing in Yemen and lift the blockade." ANDREA GERMANOS Anti-war groups on Thursday welcomed the U.S. House's passage of an amendment to the annual defense bill that would cut off the flow to Saudi Arabia of U.S. logistical support and weapons "that are bombing civilians" in Yemen. "This is BIG," tweeted the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) following the afternoon 219-207 vote, which fell largely along party lines, with just 11 Democrats voting "no. FCNL (Quakers)@FCNLThis is BIG. The House just passed @RepRoKhanna's NDAA amendment to end US support for the Saudi-led coalition's war and blockade on Yemen. The blockade, bolstered by US support, is creating untold suffering for ...

The UAE’s Strategic Redeployment in Yemen

19Sep

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UAE, Yemen

The UAE’s Strategic Redeployment in Yemen

COLUMNBY ISMAIL NUMAN TELCI There are three reasons for the UAE's strategic redeployment in Yemen: The unwillingness to carry the military and financial burdens of the war, Abu Dhabi's attempt to better its image in the West, and to continue the war through proxies. Yemeni fighters loyal to the country's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi ride a tank during clashes with Shiite Huthi rebels in the country's third-city of Taez on May 30, 2019. Getty Images The United Arab Emirates has recently announced its renewed policy towards the conflict in Yemen. The Abu Dhabi administration suggested that the country is planning to decrease its military presence in Yemen, where a bloody civil war has been continuing since 2015. The announcement brought questions about Abu...

Yemen’s Deepening Crisis and the Role of the International Community

19Sep

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Yemen

Yemen’s Deepening Crisis and the Role of the International Community

COLUMNBY ISMAIL NUMAN TELCI The international community must put pressure on particularly Saudi Arabia and Iran as well as their local proxies to come to the table in order to find a peaceful solution to the years-long crisis in Yemen. Otherwise, civilians will continue to pay the price of a regional power struggle between rival ideologies. Yemenis are seen among graves of people who were killed in the ongoing war including children killed by airstrikes, at a cemetery on October 12, 2018 in Sana’a, Yemen. Getty Images Yemen’s revolutionary uprisings in 2011 soon evolved into a complicated crisis that involved many regional and international actors. As in the case of Syria and Libya, the political uncertainty and instability in the country deepened as the interventio...