Armies of Liberation

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White Phosphorus Use Alleged in Sa’ada War, Yemen

Filed under: Proliferation, Saada War, Yemen — by Jane Novak at 12:32 pm on Sunday, August 16, 2009

Among all the charges and counter-charges related to the last week of bloody fighting between the Yemeni military and the Houthis rebels is the allegation of the military’s use of White Phoshorus against the civilian population. Allegations have been made since 2005 that the military deployed two types of chemicals in the war- a gas and another that clung to and burned the skin. Among the many photos in my inbox of dead people, body parts, bloody kids and corpses are two that may be relevent to the topic.

Sa'ada War August 16, 2009

Sa'ada War August 16, 2009

The following photo shows a war casualty covered in white stuff, I have no idea what it is or means, but its graphic, so don’t click if you don’t have to.

Sa'ada War August 16, 2009

Sa'ada War August 16, 2009

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Pingback by US: Obama ordered military strike on Yemen « Tea and Politics

12/22/2009 @ 4:26 pm

[...] note though, that Yemen’s Govt has been doing regular attacks on Yemeni civilians, even with white prosphorus and no one in the international community has ever complained. Even when there were claims of Saudi [...]

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Pingback by Yemen: Rights group calls on Govt and rebels to investigate war crime allegations amid truce

4/11/2010 @ 7:52 am

[...] has been even claimed that both Yemen and Saudi Arabia have used white phosphorus against civilians in the area, but as Israel is nowhere [...]

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