Saudi warplanes attacked and destroyed a house full of hiding civilians in Yemen’s northwestern Hajjah Province on Sunday, killing 21 civilians within. Locals say the victims were 20 women and a child.
Tribesmen familiar with the situation said that the house, in Tallan
village, was commonly used by the women in the village to hide during
clashes in the area. Since these tribes have recently aligned with the
Saudis, this is information that the Saudis ought to have had access to
when selecting targets.
This is a recurring problem with the Saudi War in Yemen, with Saudi
warplanes regularly hitting obviously civilian targets for no apparent
reason. As usual, the Saudi coalition itself has so far declined all
comment on the matter.
It is incidents like these that have led to a recent warning from the UN refugee agency that the Saudi war in Yemen averages 100 civilian casualties per week. Large civilian casualties throughout the war have fueled international outcry, and growing calls to stop arming the Saudis.
… Well that should end the ‘recent alignment’.
These aren’t accidents and this isn’t a war, it’s a goddamn holocaust. The Saudis purposely target the softest targets to break a people apposed to there hegemony. America used an identical tactic in Vietnam and now we hand our proxies the guns so we don’t have to get our hands dirty. Sickening.
‘Large civilian casualties throughout the war have fueled international outcry, and growing calls to stop arming the Saudis.’
Except for here in the good old US.
https://original.antiwar.com/lobe/2019/03/08/the-royal-wedding-received-triple-the-media-coverage-of-yemen-in-2018/
Every day Antiwar.com presents me with a true “state of the world”: almost everywhere there are armed men and women and sometimes children busy with killing others or planning to kill others or blowing themselves to smithereens to kill others. What is it in our genes which makes us the most murderous species?