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Trump Warned Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia Could Implicate US In War Crimes

Amnesty International has urged the US President to cancel impending weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain or risk being complicit in war crimes. In a press release published on Tuesday, the human rights group said: “The deals would arm members of a military coalition that has attacked thousands of civilians in Yemen and violated international humanitarian law“ Yemen is now in its third year of civil war where more than 10,000 have been killed and millions currently face famine...It is also one of the seven Muslim countries on which the Trump administration is trying to impose a travel ban. RT reports: The organization noted that its experts found unexploded US bombs and “identifiable fragments of exploded US bombs” among the destroyed civilian buildings in Yemen. A Yemeni police bomb disposal team gathers around an unexploded rocket allegedly dropped by an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition in the centre of the capital Sanaa, on September 1, 2016 AFP/Getty If the US approves the deals while banning Yemenis from coming to the US, it would be like “throwing gasoline on a house fire and locking the door on [the] way out,” according to Margaret Huang, Amnesty International USA executive director. [...]