Amnesty International Says The U.S.-Supported Coalition In Yemen Is Committing War Crimes

The uprisings of the Arab Spring which were prompted by an inflammatory speech Obama made in Cairo, in which he promised US support to any rebel group fighting to overthrow a tyrannical regime, hit Yemen in 2011. Then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced out of office and power was handed to Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Under Hadi the country was politically paralyzed and the rebel Houthis, who had successfully opposed Saleh mobilized their supporters in and around the capital San'a and began moving south towards the port city Aden where Hadi had set up his headquarters. He was eventually forced to flee the country.
The Saudis formed a coalition with Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates to support Hadi and counter the Houthis advance. "The U.S. provides logistical and intelligence support for the air campaign — even refueling its jets," NPR reported last week. The bombing has proved effective in countering the advance of the Houthis, who have also committed war crimes according to international rights groups, and allowed Hadi to return to Aden after months of exile.
What a lot of people in the middle east did not understand was that when Obama promised US support for rebels fighting to overthrow tyrannical regimes, what he meant was rebels fighting to overthrow regimes Washington wanted overthrown (such as Assad in Syria, as we reported elsewhere, the USA has been working to oust Assad since 2006. Saudi Arabia, Washington's major ally in the Arab world is a different matter so if the Saudis felt threatened by Houthi rebels in Yemen then The White House felt threatened by them too.
In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition began bombing Yemen in an attempt to support the embattled regime and counter the advance of the Shia Houthi rebels. This coalition, supported by logistics and intelligence provided by the United States, has now been accused of war crimes by the human rights group Amnesty International.
“The coalition airstrikes investigated by Amnesty International in Sa’da governorate have involved serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes,” the report, published this month by Amnesty, reads.

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