Saudi-Led Coalition Using Cluster Bombs In Yemen: HRW
Source: Agence France-Presse
DUBAI (AFP) -
The Saudi-led coalition has been using US-supplied cluster bombs in its air campaign against Yemeni rebels, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday, warning of the long-term dangers to civilians.
The widely banned munitions contain dozens of submunitions, which sometimes do not explode, becoming de facto landmines that can kill or maim long after they were dropped.
HRW said it had gathered photographs, video and other evidence indicating that cluster munitions had been used in coalition air strikes against the Huthi rebel stronghold of Saada province in Yemen's northern mountains.
It said that analysis of satellite imagery suggested that the weapons had landed on a cultivated plateau, within 600 metres (yards) of populated areas.
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marmar
(77,078 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)HRW said that the munitions used in Yemen appeared to be the CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapons manufactured by the Textron Systems Corporation(??I think this is Canadian company?) and supplied to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by the United States in recent years. <--?retail seller based in Dubai? is this Cheney?
take a look at their war goods and their logos- "Dominate with Confidence"
http://www.textronsystems.com/
The golden prize that stinks of death.
Strip the owners of their smiling masks and find monsters.
They_Live
(3,232 posts)Sure sounds like something Cheney would say.
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)In my experience, he's seldom wrong about these things. Hopefully he'll reign it in soon.