US Approves $6 Billion In Arms Sales To Kill More Yemenis

Y.A

The US State Department approved weapons sales to Bahrain and the UAE worth almost $6 billion amid growing concerns over Washington’s arms flow to kill Yemenis.

The Pentagon said on Friday that it had notified Congress of the State Department’s certification of three separate arms sales packages to the regimes in Manama and Abu Dhabi.

Bahrain and UAE are partners of Saudi Arabia which has been waging a war against Yemen since March 2015.

According to  Amnesty International , last March, there “was extensive evidence that irresponsible arms flows to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have resulted in enormous harm to Yemeni civilians.’

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.