Outrage Mounts Over US Role in Airstrike on Yemeni School Bus Carrying Children
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BY: Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!
Thousands of mourners gathered in Yemen’s northern city of Saada Monday for the funerals of 51 people, including 40 children, who were killed in a US-backed Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a school bus last week. The massacre of school boys between the ages of 6 and 11 was one of the worst attacks on children in the history of Yemen’s brutal war. Images posted online suggest a US-built Mark 82 bomb was used in the bombing. We speak with Shireen Al-Adeimi, a Yemeni scholar and activist and an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Her latest piece for In These Times is titled “Fine Print in Defense Bill Acknowledges US-Backed War in Yemen Will Go On Indefinitely.”
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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy ...