US Leaders Aid and Abet War Crimes in Yemen
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People stand near a bus destroyed by an airstrike that killed dozens of children on August 9, 2018, in Saada, Yemen.MOHAMMED HAMOUD / GETTY IMAGES
BY: Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
US leaders who provided military support to the Saudi-led coalition that bombed civilians in Yemen this August could be charged with aiding and abetting the commission of war crimes under customary international law, which is part of US law.
The 500-pound laser-guided MK 82 bomb, which the coalition dropped on August 9, killed 51 people, including 40 children. The bombing constituted a war crime.
“They came to the hospital in cars and ambulances. Dozens of children with an array of grisly wounds,” Marta Rivas Blanco, a nurse from the International Committee of the Red Cross who works at t...