Peace Prize Boys Pogrom Pummels Yemeni Civilians
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:41:37 GMT
US Nobel Peace Prize laureate President Barack Obama has
signed the order for a recent military strike on Yemen in
which scores of civilians, including children, have been
killed, a report says.
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Upon the orders of Obama, the military warplanes on Thursday
blanketed two camps in the North of the Yemeni capital,
Sana'a, claiming there were "an imminent attack against a US
asset was being planned," ABC News quoted anonymous
administration officials as saying on Friday.
The US air raids were then followed by a Yemeni ground
forces attack.
The operation led to the death of around 120 people of whom
many were civilians, including children, the report quoted
Yemeni opposition as saying.
Obama also contacted Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh,
after the blitz in order to "congratulate" him on his
efforts against 'al-Qaeda,' the US news outlet quoted White
House officials as telling reporters earlier.
The latest development comes in the wake of recently
intensified attacks on the country's Shia Houthi fighters
which has brought about a dire humanitarian situation in
northern Yemen.
So far, the US officials have categorically denied any
direct involvement in the air strikes on Houthi fighters,
alleging they have only targeted growing al-Qaeda training
camps, mostly located in southern parts of the Persian Gulf
state. Yemen's Houthi fighters however insist US fighter
jets have been bombing their region, claiming the lives of
civilians in their air raids.
The reports of the US military intervention in Yemen come as
Saudi Arabia has also been lending full support to the
Yemeni government's crackdown on Yemen's Houthi minority.
Yemen's Shia minority have recently slammed foreign military
intervention in Yemen and the United Nations' apathy on the
humanitarian situation and the "siege on civilians in
northern Yemen."
International aid agencies and some UN bodies including
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have voiced concern over
the dire condition of the Yemeni civilians who have become
the main victims of the conflict in the country.
The United Nations, which according to its charter is set up
"to take effective collective measures for the prevention
and removal of threats to peace, and for the suppression of
acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace," has
failed to adopt any concrete measures to help end the bloody
war.
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