HLMenckenFanThe Biden administration wants to know if Saudi Arabia used American weapons to kill 'hundreds' of migrants
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The Biden administration is demanding answers following a report that Saudi authorities may have killed hundreds of migrants in Yemen, possibly with arms provided by the United States, according to The Washington Post.
Last month, Human Rights Watch issued a report alleging that, between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi border guards killed “at least hundreds” of Ethiopian migrants who were trying to cross into the country from neighboring Yemen.
The attacks included the use of explosive weapons and execution-style killings of people who had just been released from detention in Saudi Arabia itself, the group charged.
Bill Frelick, director of HRW’s refugee and migrant rights division, said he was “shocked and horrified” by the allegations, which he described as among the worst he’s seen in more than 30 years.
One person said that an attack on a group of 170 migrants left more than half of them dead, according to HRW, appearing to reflect a conscious decision to discourage migration through targeted killings — and raising the prospect that there is a “state policy of deliberate murder of a civilian population.”
Michal Ratney, US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, discussed the allegations last month — ahead of the report’s release — and US officials are now trying to determine whether the units accused received training or weapons from Washington.
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It’s high time that we stop selling weapons to the Saudis. If they’re not using them to kill migrants, they’re using them to kill Yemenis.
We have blood on our hands.
GodlessCommieWe have blood on our hands
Naturally, being the world largest terrorist state, thats gonna happen
the forever unconditional ally
FuglyDuckPretty shitty ally, if you ask me.
Well.
Until they run out of delicious, tasty, yummy in our tummies oil.
Why, yes we did.
starman2112How on earth did these terrorists get their hands on US weapons? Oh, we sold them to them? Why do we keep electing terrorist arms dealers?
I always hate when Amazon vendors pursue feedback aggressively.
What difference does that make?
If we suspect the Saudis did this, we should absolutely look into it, and if they did, stop providing them with weapons.
But while we’re auditing who may have used American weapons to kill migrants, we might want to check on this little organization called Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Yeah until we can investigate cops killing innocent American citizens i highly doubt they would care about the ICE raping children and killing their migrant parents
ICE has killed thousands. So of course we need to start with SA’s hundreds.
We already know of atrocities they’ve committed. We should have stopped providing them weapons long ago. Since we failed that, we absolutely should stop right fucking now.
Is Mecca Muslim? Never put anything beneath the Chainsawdis!
Flying SquidI’ll answer that for you, Joe.
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DID!
specfreqThe method isn’t really important when slaughtering asylum seekers.
What are you gonna do if they say yes? Are you gonna punish them the same way they were punished for killing Jamal Khashoggi…so not at all and rewarding them with another multimillion dollar arms deal?
Fuck the Saudi government. Bunch of scum.
Current administration’s version of:
“Are you a terrorist?”
Well they drove a few planes into some of our buildings….so naturally we’ll just shower their pretty pink heads with little green pieces of paper into perpetuity.
Of course they fucking did it, they give zero fucks about pretending to be anything other than too rich to care about human life and all too willing to kill over money and sky cake
Forgive my ignorance, sky cake??
Niice! I was not aware of this. Thank you kindly, and I’ll try to remember it
This really isn’t much different from what the leading Republican candidates want to do at our southern border.
Ummm…. American weapons can be found in every nation on Earth. Pretty sure Russia is using some in Ukraine.
I mean they used american planes to kill Americans and nobody seems to give a shit about that
Well of course the administration would want to know.
If they used them, that means they’ll need to buy more!
harkSo he wants to know this specifically but doesn’t care about all the other atrocities Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen with full support from the US that he already knows 100% about? He’s very good at pretending to care.
The 80 year old boomer doesn’t care and never did