Saturday, April 13, 2019

'Another Horrific Attack': US-Backed Saudi Coalition Bombs Yemen School, Killing Mostly Children

This is beyond horrifying and heartbreaking. Tragically, Martin Luther King’s words in his “Beyond Vietnam” speech on April 4, 1967 continue to be true today — our government is the greatest purveyor of violence on Earth. It is so far past time that we see this toxic shadow side of our country for what it is — and understand that these roots of extraordinary violence have existed since the earliest days of slavery and genocide of the First People — and demand an end to the madness. War is not peace. War is terrorism. — Molly


"President Trump, I urge you to sign the resolution Congress passed last week ending U.S. support for this conflict. Yemen needs humanitarian aid, not more bombs," tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders
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With a War Powers resolution that would end U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia's assault on Yemen currently on President Donald Trump's desk, the Saudi-led coalition on Sunday reportedly bombed a residential area in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, killing at least 11 and injuring dozens more.
According to local medical officials, most of those killed were young children after Saudi airstrikes hit a Yemeni school.
"Everyone was hysterical, some were crying and shouting in panic," Fatehiya Kahlani, principal of Al Raei school, told Al Jazeera. "The situation was horrible as the school population is 2,100. Some girl students were killed and others were wounded and are in a hospital as a result of the missile strike. The school building was destroyed too."
As Al Jazeera reported:
Youssef al-Hadrii, a spokesman for the rebel-controlled health ministry, was quoted by DPA news agency as saying that the attack on Sunday left more than 39 people wounded.
He said most of the victims were students killed in the bombing of houses and a school.
The Saudi-led coalition denied bombing the area.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who helped lead the Senate effort to end U.S. complicity in Saudi Arabia's atrocities in Yemen, once again called on Trump to sign the Yemen Wars Powers resolution.
"Another horrific attack in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. More children dead," tweeted Sanders, a 2020 presidential candidate. "President Trump, I urge you to sign the resolution Congress passed last week ending U.S. support for this conflict. Yemen needs humanitarian aid, not more bombs."
Reacting to the latest Saudi-led attack on Yemen—which comes around two weeks after the coalition bombed a Yemeni hospital—Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) demanded to know whether the Trump administration provided the Saudis with "targeting or other assistance... for this airstrike that killed girl students."
"Why is the Trump administration still supporting the Saudi-led coalition, which has committed multiple war crimes?" Lieu asked.
Reports of the Saudi-led coalition's continued bombing of Yemen come days after the U.S. House voted to send the Yemen War Powers resolution to Trump's desk.

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