Ralph Nader on Trump’s War Crimes in Yemen

On Trump Administration’s Action in Yemen

 

 

WASHINGTON, July 6, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ralph Nader today sent a letter to President Trump criticizing the administration’s actions in Yemen. Text of the letter follows:

President Donald Trump

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Trump:

It has become overwhelmingly clear that your Administration has supported with arms sales, refueling, daily operational logistics and other ways and means the governmental actors opposing the rebels in the Yemeni Civil war.

The bombing raids and blockades combine to produce what international relief organizations are calling the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. With an estimated 8 million people on the brink of starvation, with the largest cholera epidemic in the world, Yemen is suffering daily deliberate war crimes affecting civilians, children, homes, schools, hospitals, drinking water installations, food supplies, and other critical infrastructures. These war crimes violate our Constitution, federal statutes, and international treaties, including the Geneva Conventions.

As President, you know full well what is going on and yet you keep getting our country deeper into this deadly quagmire. By any standard of international law, you are a knowing aider and abettor of these war crimes at a level of complicity that approximates being a backroom partner in the broad range of military operations against millions of innocent Yemeni families.

Have you no compassion? Have you no desire to put a stop to this war on civilians, a deliberate war to destroy the life-sustaining goods and services that keep millions of Yemenis alive. Just this week, your allies blew up a new Doctors Without Borders clinic that was about to open. Some of the doctors are Americans. Have you no decency left even to protect American relief workers who display immense courage and love for their fellow human beings? In its July 2018 three part on the ground series about the War in Yemen, the PBS News Hour showed unexploded bombs with the label, “Made in Garland, Texas,” as just one concrete indication of U.S. involvement.

What are the specific legal authorizations? Has Congress appropriated funds for and authorized military intervention in Yemen? Did you not swear to uphold the Constitution when you took office after being selected by the Electoral College in 2016?

History will judge you harshly for not even seeking to be a serious peacemaker, using the major levers you have in this conflict.

What is your response to the American people?

Sincerely, 

Ralph Nader

Yemen Crime Against Humanity: Red Cross Evacuates

 

US/Saudi “coalition” of evil is killing civilians and aid workers.

We've pulled 71 staff members out of #Yemen.

In recent weeks, our activities have been:
*blocked
*threatened
*directly targeted

The security of our staff is a non-negotiable prerequisite for our work in the country: https://t.co/LeZwt5czv6#notatarget pic.twitter.com/jqFBg7Bol4

— ICRC (@ICRC) June 8, 2018

Dutch Comedienne Trolls Israeli Eurovision

 

Dutch parody of Israel's eurovision song has Israel fuming, but it's a truth-bomb-improvement on the original pic.twitter.com/NPdrT5fDJz

— Palestine Observer (@PalObserver) May 23, 2018

Call it what it is #genocide

Orwell Lives, in Syria

 

Rebel group accusing Assad of gas attack ‘USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS’ against Kurds

CIA’s Mexico Branch

CIA’s asset in Mexico was architect of some of the worst atrocities of the Dirty War

Agency considered spymaster Miguel Nazar Haro’s brutal reign a period of “stability” that justified his ties to narcotics, the murder of a DEA agent, and even genocide

Syria “Regime Change” Over?

French president confirms end to anti-Assad operation.

CONFIRMED: US and France abandon regime change in Syria

Indeed, we now have a new approach in Syria, because we want results and we want to work closely together with all our partners including the United States. We have one main goal which is to eradicate terrorism, no matter who they are, we want to build an inclusive and sustainable political solution.  I do not require Assad’s departure, that’s no longer a prerequisite for France. For seven years, we did not have an embassy in Damascus – and still we have no solution.

For the record, America and its allies have committed CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY by destroying Syria, which led to the killing of half a million Syrians. They had no right whatsoever to perpetrate these crimes, war crimes, Nuremberg violations. Further, they have created a massive fundamentalist Islamic terror threat which did not exist before. Those leaders responsible should be prosecuted immediately.