US complicit in Saudi atrocities against Yemen, HRW says
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This September 22, 2016 photo shows buildings destroyed during Saudi airstrikes in the western Yemeni port city of Hudaydah the previous day. (Photos by AFP)
Human Rights Watch has called for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over its atrocious aerial bombardment campaign against Yemen, stating that the United States could be held accountable for "atrocities" being perpetrated against war-stricken Yemenis by providing munitions to the Riyadh regime.
According to Press TV, the New York-based rights group said in a report on Thursday that more than 160 people had lost their lives between September and October as a result of being hit by US-made bombs, which Saudi Arabia and its regional allies dropped on residential neighborhoods across Yemen.
It added that US arms were being supplied to the invaders irrespective of the fact that earlier reports had indicated such violations.
“The Obama administration is running out of time to completely suspend US arms sales to Saudi Arabia or be forever linked to Yemen wartime atrocities,” Human Rights Watch researcher Priyanka Motaparthy said.
The rights group said its findings were from an investigation into a September 10 airstrike against Arhab town north of the Yemeni capital Sana’a, which left 31 civilians, including several first responders, martyred and more than 40 others wounded.
The group said fragments of the bombs used in the raid revealed that they were manufactured in the US in October 2015, months after international rights bodies had warned against Saudi Arabia’s violations in impoverished Yemen.
Saudi warplanes struck Souq al-Hanoud area in the al-Hawak district of Yemen’s western province of Hudaydah 10 days later, claiming the lives of more than 28 civilians and leaving 32 others wounded.
According to Press TV, the New York-based rights group said in a report on Thursday that more than 160 people had lost their lives between September and October as a result of being hit by US-made bombs, which Saudi Arabia and its regional allies dropped on residential neighborhoods across Yemen.
It added that US arms were being supplied to the invaders irrespective of the fact that earlier reports had indicated such violations.
“The Obama administration is running out of time to completely suspend US arms sales to Saudi Arabia or be forever linked to Yemen wartime atrocities,” Human Rights Watch researcher Priyanka Motaparthy said.
The rights group said its findings were from an investigation into a September 10 airstrike against Arhab town north of the Yemeni capital Sana’a, which left 31 civilians, including several first responders, martyred and more than 40 others wounded.
The group said fragments of the bombs used in the raid revealed that they were manufactured in the US in October 2015, months after international rights bodies had warned against Saudi Arabia’s violations in impoverished Yemen.
Saudi warplanes struck Souq al-Hanoud area in the al-Hawak district of Yemen’s western province of Hudaydah 10 days later, claiming the lives of more than 28 civilians and leaving 32 others wounded.
“The US, UK, and others selling weapons to Saudi Arabia should suspend these sales until unlawful attacks are curtailed and properly investigated,” Motaparthy said.
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