Desde arrojar desechos tóxicos al mar hasta ensuciar las granjas de Yemen con toneladas de bombas de racimo sin explotar, Arabia Saudita está creando un legado tan tóxico en Yemen que los expertos creen que podría demorar un siglo en deshacerse.
Over the weekend the Saudi-led coalition bombed a water treatment facility, targeted and killed a number of fishermen, used banned cluster bombs and targeted a Yemeni radio station.
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- The U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition conducted numerous airstrikes across Yemen this past weekend, especially against the strategic port city of Hodeida. Heavy civilian casualties have been reported, as has the use of cluster bombs against civilian targets. Hodeida’s water and sewage treatment infrastructure was also targeted in
Britain is s signatory to the international ban on cluster bombs, and this would at the very least be a violation of Britain’s obligations under that treaty.
British Defense Secretary Sir Michael Fallon today announced, and Saudi Arabia formally confirmed, that the Saudi military has been dropping British-made cluster munitions on Yemen over the course of their 20 month war in
The U.S. continues to finds itself on the wrong side of history when it comes to cluster bombs and the UK, having signed and ratified the ban treaty, needs to choose which side it wants to be on.
UNITED NATIONS - The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) banned the use of these deadly weapons for two primary reasons: they release small bomblets over a wide area, posing extended risks beyond war zones, and they leave behind unexploded ordnance which have killed civilians, including women and children, long after conflicts have
Cluster bombs have been banned by 116 countries. Yet one cluster weapon, made in America, is being used on the battlefield in Yemen, dangerously close to civilians.
Listen to the Story: A Yemeni man described the chaos that accompanied an air strike near his village on a Monday morning in April, the day of the weekly market. "Hundreds of people from the surrounding villages were in al-Amar when the bombs were dropped,"
