2 killed, 15 wounded in Saudi-led strike on Yemen workshop

Feb 16, 2016, 07:36
2 killed, 15 wounded in Saudi-led strike on Yemen workshop

"The evidence raises serious questions about compliance with U.S. cluster munition policy and export rules", he added.

In a January 12 letter to President Obama, Megan Burke, the director of the Cluster Munition Coalition, a disarmament group, urged him to "demand that Saudi-led coalition members stop using cluster munitions", and said the United States "should investigate its own role in the recent strikes".

Human Rights Watch said it believed the Saudi-led coalition, which also includes other Gulf Cooperation Council states, is responsible for all or almost all cluster munition attacks in Yemen because it is the only entity operating aircraft or multibarrel rocket launchers capable of delivering five of the six types of cluster munitions that have been used in the conflict.

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Riyadh has deployd Patriots created to counter tactical ballistic missiles, which have been fired occasionally since March when the coalition began air strikes in support of the Yemeni government after Houthi rebels seized Sanaa and advanced towards second city Aden. The claim, which resembled other communiques by the group, said the man was killed with a silenced pistol.

The Arab Coalition has intercepted a cargo ship coming from Djibouti to Hodeidah port in Yemen carrying military equipment under the guise of carrying medical supplies.

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A panel of United Nations experts says the coalition has carried out 119 sorties that violated humanitarian law, and called for an worldwide probe.

More than 90 civilians and soldiers have died in shelling and skirmishes along the border since last March, when a Saudi-led coalition launched a military intervention in Yemen.

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