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It's Official - The Report of Bounties On US Troops Is a Hoax
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<blockquote data-quote="tall73" data-source="post: 75896520" data-attributes="member: 125574"><p>Our assistance in Yemen ended in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/politics/biden-state-department-visit/index.html" target="_blank">February of this </a>year after Biden took office. I would say that is quite recent. </p><p></p><p>As to the extent:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/03/yemen-airstrikes-saudi-arabia-mbs-us" target="_blank">America is likely complicit in war crimes in Yemen. It's time to hold the US to account | Mohamad Bazzi</a></p><p><span style="color: #006600"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600">The full scope of human suffering in Yemen has been partly obscured because <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-deadly-war-in-yemen-rages-on-so-why-does-the-death-toll-stand-still-/2018/08/02/e6d9ebca-9022-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html" target="_blank">the UN stopped updating</a> civilian deaths in <a href="https://www.apnews.com/24ee4b33373a41d389e2599c5aa7bbfa" target="_blank">January 2017</a>, when the toll reached 10,000. And while the actual death toll is far higher, many news reports still rely on the outdated UN figures.</span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600">In June, an independent monitoring group, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, <a href="https://www.acleddata.com/2019/06/18/press-release-yemen-war-death-toll-exceeds-90000-according-to-new-acled-data-for-2015/" target="_blank">released a report</a> detailing more than 90,000 fatalities since the war began in 2015.</span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600">In April, the United Nations Development Programme <a href="http://www.arabstates.undp.org/content/rbas/en/home/library/crisis-response0/assessing-the-impact-of-war-on-development-in-yemen-.html" target="_blank">issued a report</a> warning that the death toll in Yemen could rise to 233,000 by the end of 2019 – far higher than previous estimates. That projection includes deaths from combat as well as 131,000 indirect deaths due to the lack of food, health crises such as a cholera epidemic, and damage to Yemen’s infrastructure.</span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600">Like <a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/08/24/hiding-behind-coalition/failure-credibly-investigate-and-provide-redress-unlawful" target="_blank">previous investigations</a> by human rights groups and journalists, <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/GEE-Yemen/A_HRC_42_CRP_1.PDF" target="_blank">the UN report</a> documented how the Saudi-led coalition has killed thousands of civilians in airstrikes; intentionally starved Yemenis as a war tactic; and imposed a naval and air blockade on Houthi-controlled areas that has drastically limited deliveries of humanitarian aid. The report also found that the Houthis likely committed war crimes by planting landmines, deploying siege tactics against several cities, using child soldiers and indiscriminately bombing civilian areas.</span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600">Despite years of warnings from groups like Human Rights Watch and UN investigations that documented growing evidence of war crimes in Yemen, US officials – first under Barack Obama’s administration and then under Trump – continued to approve weapons sales to the Saudi and Emirati militaries. US officials realized as far back as 2016 that senior Saudi and UAE leaders were not interested in reducing civilian deaths in Yemen, according to two members of the Obama administration who gave little-noticed <a href="https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=109038" target="_blank">testimony before Congress</a> in early March.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/04/17/trump-vetoes-measure-to-end-us-involvement-in-yemen-war/" target="_blank">Trump vetoes measure to end US involvement in Yemen war</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600">The U.S. provides billions of dollars of arms to the Saudi-led coalition fighting against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen. Members of Congress have expressed concern about the thousands of civilians killed in coalition airstrikes since the conflict began in 2014. The fighting in the Arab world's poorest country also has left millions suffering from food and medical care shortages and has pushed the country to the brink of famine.</span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tall73, post: 75896520, member: 125574"] Our assistance in Yemen ended in [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/politics/biden-state-department-visit/index.html']February of this [/URL]year after Biden took office. I would say that is quite recent. As to the extent: [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/03/yemen-airstrikes-saudi-arabia-mbs-us"]America is likely complicit in war crimes in Yemen. It's time to hold the US to account | Mohamad Bazzi[/URL] [COLOR=#006600] The full scope of human suffering in Yemen has been partly obscured because [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-deadly-war-in-yemen-rages-on-so-why-does-the-death-toll-stand-still-/2018/08/02/e6d9ebca-9022-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html']the UN stopped updating[/URL] civilian deaths in [URL='https://www.apnews.com/24ee4b33373a41d389e2599c5aa7bbfa']January 2017[/URL], when the toll reached 10,000. And while the actual death toll is far higher, many news reports still rely on the outdated UN figures. In June, an independent monitoring group, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, [URL='https://www.acleddata.com/2019/06/18/press-release-yemen-war-death-toll-exceeds-90000-according-to-new-acled-data-for-2015/']released a report[/URL] detailing more than 90,000 fatalities since the war began in 2015. In April, the United Nations Development Programme [URL='http://www.arabstates.undp.org/content/rbas/en/home/library/crisis-response0/assessing-the-impact-of-war-on-development-in-yemen-.html']issued a report[/URL] warning that the death toll in Yemen could rise to 233,000 by the end of 2019 – far higher than previous estimates. That projection includes deaths from combat as well as 131,000 indirect deaths due to the lack of food, health crises such as a cholera epidemic, and damage to Yemen’s infrastructure.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#006600] Like [URL='https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/08/24/hiding-behind-coalition/failure-credibly-investigate-and-provide-redress-unlawful']previous investigations[/URL] by human rights groups and journalists, [URL='https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/GEE-Yemen/A_HRC_42_CRP_1.PDF']the UN report[/URL] documented how the Saudi-led coalition has killed thousands of civilians in airstrikes; intentionally starved Yemenis as a war tactic; and imposed a naval and air blockade on Houthi-controlled areas that has drastically limited deliveries of humanitarian aid. The report also found that the Houthis likely committed war crimes by planting landmines, deploying siege tactics against several cities, using child soldiers and indiscriminately bombing civilian areas. Despite years of warnings from groups like Human Rights Watch and UN investigations that documented growing evidence of war crimes in Yemen, US officials – first under Barack Obama’s administration and then under Trump – continued to approve weapons sales to the Saudi and Emirati militaries. US officials realized as far back as 2016 that senior Saudi and UAE leaders were not interested in reducing civilian deaths in Yemen, according to two members of the Obama administration who gave little-noticed [URL='https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=109038']testimony before Congress[/URL] in early March.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#006600][URL="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/04/17/trump-vetoes-measure-to-end-us-involvement-in-yemen-war/"]Trump vetoes measure to end US involvement in Yemen war[/URL] The U.S. provides billions of dollars of arms to the Saudi-led coalition fighting against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen. Members of Congress have expressed concern about the thousands of civilians killed in coalition airstrikes since the conflict began in 2014. The fighting in the Arab world's poorest country also has left millions suffering from food and medical care shortages and has pushed the country to the brink of famine. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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