US 'Complicit in This Nightmare,' Says Sanders, After Trump-Backed Saudi Coalition Kills Over 100 in

[G_j]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/02/us-complicit-nightmare-says-sanders-after-trump-backed-saudi-coalition-kills-over?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook

"Congress has declared this war unconstitutional. We must now stand up to Trump and defund all U.S. involvement in these horrors."

byJake Johnson, staff writer


In what was described as its deadliest attack on Yemen this year, the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition on Sunday killed more than 100 people with airstrikes on a detention center in Dhamar city, forcing aid workers to divert medical supplies intended for the nation's cholera epidemic to treat victims of the bombing.

Franz Rauchenstein, head of the the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Yemen, which responded to the attack and searched for survivors under the rubble, called the bombing "disturbing" and a likely war crime.

"The human cost of this war is unbearable. We need it to stop. Yemenis deserve a peaceful future. Accountability needs to prevail."

—Martin Griffiths, U.N. special envoy to Yemen
"The location that was hit has been visited by ICRC before. It's a college building that has been empty and has been used as a detention facility for a while," Rauchenstein told AFP. "To hit such a building is shocking and saddening—prisoners are protected by international law."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who led the War Powers effort in the Senate, said Sunday that "U.S. bombs, logistical support, and intelligence for the Saudi dictatorship's airstrikes make us complicit in this nightmare."



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[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread G_j.

[delisen]

2. Q. Has the US been backing the Saudi since 2015?

[JudyM]

3. K&R. Needs to stay visible.