A new probe into airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition comes as U.S. and British lawmakers are seeking to halt arms sales in Yemen's war.
By Sudarsan Raghavan Sudarsan Raghavan Cairo bureau chief covering North Africa and Yemen Email Bio Follow March 6 at 11:42 AM CAIRO — American- and British-made bombs may have killed or injured nearly 1,000 civilians, including women and children, in Yemen’s four-year-old conflict, according to a report released Wednesday by human rights groups.
The United States, in particular, has sold billions of dollars in weaponry to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, its key allies in the Middle East. Both nations lead a regional coalition that seeks to oust northern rebels known as Houthis and restore Yemen’s internationally recognized government.
In 25 of the assaults, investigators determined that U.S.-made munitions, including banned cluster bombs, were likely to have been used. In five of the strikes, British-made weaponry appears to have been deployed, the report said. The findings also hint at the real civilian toll of the war. From March 2015 to April 2016 alone, more than 18,000 coalition airstrikes pounded Yemen, nearly a third striking civilian targets, according to the Yemen Data Project, an independent monitoring group.The report strongly suggested that the air assaults could be unlawful under international law and constitute potential war crimes.
In 2017, the coalition said it would launch a training program to reduce what it described as accidental targeting of civilians. But those pledges fell short. In the year since the announcement, civilian deaths were 7 percent higher than the previous year, according to United Nations data.
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