Saudiarabiens USA-koordinerade bombräder i Yemen - med amerikanska klusterbomber

Saudiarabien och USA  håller sannolikt på att införa sina orwellska exceptionella versioner av "demokrati" i Yemen? - Saudiarabien "fredsbombar" nämligen civila områden med amerikanska klusterbomber. Allt enligt en ny rapport från människorättsorganisationen "Human Rights Watch..."
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Human Rights Watch:
Saudi-Led Coalition Bombing Yemen with Banned U.S.-Made Cluster Munitions

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Publicerades den 5 maj 2015 http://democracynow.org

- Human Rights Watch is accusing the Saudi Arabia-led coalition of dropping banned cluster bombs manufactured and supplied by the U.S. on civilian areas in Yemen. 

Cluster bombs contain dozens or even hundreds of smaller munitions designed to fan out over a wide area, often the size of a football field. They are banned under a 2008 treaty for the high civilian toll they can cause.

The treaty was adopted by 116 countries — although not by Saudi Arabia, Yemen or the United States. According to Human Rights Watch, the U.S.-supplied cluster bombs have landed near rebel-held villages in northern Yemen, putting residents in danger.

On Monday, the State Department said it is "looking into" the report’s allegations, adding it takes "all accounts of civilian deaths in the ongoing hostilities in Yemen very seriously." We are joined by Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch’s Arms Division and chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition, and Belkis Wille, Yemen and Kuwait researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen with US-supplied cluster bombs – HRW

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Publicerades den 3 maj 2015

The Saudi Arabia-led coalition is using US-supplied cluster munitions in its airstrikes on Houthi forces in Yemen, Human Rights Watch reported. Targets include those close to villages, posing a threat from undetonated submunitions to civilians.
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S. Arabia bombs Yemen with US-supplied cluster bombs – HRW

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RT 2015-05-03
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition is using US-supplied cluster munitions in its airstrikes on Houthi forces in Yemen, Human Rights Watch reported. Targets include those close to villages, posing a threat from undetonated submunitions to civilians.

In recent weeks the coalition has used cluster bombs in Yemen’s northern Saada governorate, a region bordering Saudi Ararbia, which is historically controlled by the rebels, HRW said.

“These weapons should never be used under any circumstances. Saudi Arabia and other coalition members – and the supplier, the US – are flouting the global standard that rejects cluster munitions because of their long-term threat to civilians,” said Steve Goose, arms director at Human Rights Watch.

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Cluster munitions contain hundreds of smaller explosive submunitions that are spread over a wide area. This type of weapon is dangerous because some subminitions aren’t immediately detonated and can lie dormant for decades before exploding. Civilians and particularly children have been historically the primary victims of such booby traps.

An international convention signed by 116 countries prohibits the use of cluster munitions, but the US, members of the Saudi-led Arab coalition and Yemen itself are not among the signatories.

US arms export guidelines, however, demand that any cluster weapons sold to foreign nations are only used against “clearly defined military targets and will not be used where civilians are known to be present or in areas normally inhabited by civilians.” [...]
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US-Coordinated Saudi Bombers Using Illegal, US-Made Cluster Bombs: HRW
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2015-05-03 Washington's Blog
Now we know what has become of the thousands of banned cluster bombs Obama shipped to Saudi Arabia in 2013.

US-based group Human Rights Watch:

Saudi-Led Airstrikes Used Cluster Munitions

Credible evidence indicates that the Saudi-led coalition used banned cluster munitions supplied by the 

United States in airstrikes against Houthi forces in Yemen…

US-coordinated and assisted Wahhabi bombings using cluster and other weapons “have been hitting areas near villages” HRW said, adding that cluster bombs:

…should never be used under any circumstances. Saudi Arabia and other coalition members – and the supplier, the US – are flouting the global standard that rejects cluster munitions because of their long-term threat to civilians.

Violating international norms, Obama shipped the Sharia dictatorship almost 1 billion dollars worth of banned cluster bombs in August, 2013:

Foreign Policy journal, August 2013: US Shipping Thousands of Cluster Bombs to Saudis, Despite Global Ban

This was in addition to a 60 billion dollar lethal weapons sale Obama made to the Saudi dictatorship in 2010 to help it wage offensive operations throughout the region as a US proxy.  Though the US was already the world’s biggest arms trafficker, this was the biggest arms sale in US history:

Guardian, September, 2010: “Barack Obama to Authorize Record $60bn Saudi Arms Sale – Biggest arms deal in US history”

Cluster bombs produced by the US are industrial-level versions of what the Boston Bombers tried to build using a commercially available pressure cooker.

Obama has himself previously planted and detonated banned cluster bombs in crowded civilian areas of Yemen and killed several times more civilians, including some 21 children and 5 pregnant women, than were killed in the Boston Bombing.

Reporter and UK-based colleague @_DirtyTruths.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/us-coordinated-saudi-bombers-using-illegal-us-made-cluster-bombs-hrw.html 
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