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发帖数: 27354 | 1 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/18/us-promoting-war-
crimes-yemen-saudi-bombing-obama
美国媒体对美国在也门犯下的罪行也选择性忽略，转而把重点放在叙利亚的报导上。
The US is promoting war crimes in Yemen
audi Arabia resumed its appalling war in Yemen last week and has already
killed dozens more civilians, destroyed a school full of children and
leveled a hospital full of sick and injured people. The campaign of
indiscriminate killing – though let’s call it what it is: a war crime –
has now been going on for almost a year and a half. And the United States
bears a large part of the responsibility.
The Guardian view on Yemen: stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Editorial: Coalition air strikes resumed when peace talks stalled – and
Britain is complicit in the civilian deaths that result
Read more
This US-backed war is not just a case of the Obama administration sitting
idly by while its close ally goes on a destructive spree of historic
proportions. The government is actively selling the Saudis billions of
dollars of weaponry. They’re re-supplying planes engaged in the bombing
runs and providing “intelligence” for the targets that Saudi Arabia is
hitting.
Put simply, the US is quite literally funding a humanitarian catastrophe
that, by some measures, is larger than the crisis in Syria. As the New York
Times editorial board wrote this week: “Experts say the coalition would be
grounded if Washington withheld its support.” Yet all we’ve heard is
crickets.
High-ranking Obama administration officials are hardly ever asked about the
crisis. Cable television news has almost universally ignored it. Both the
Clinton and Trump presidential campaigns have been totally silent on this
issue despite their constant arguing over who would be better at “stopping
terrorism”. Beyond the grotesque killing of civilians, it’s clear at this
point that the Saudis’ bombing campaign has also boosted al-Qaida in the
Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) to a level which Reuters described as “stronger
and richer” than anytime in its 20-year history. |
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