Washington Sells Arms to Riyadh Regime, Activists Place Flowers for Yemeni Oppressed Children

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Activist groups of MoveOn and Avaaz organized a protest that was held on Monday, a day before Trump and Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman visit the US.

“We’ve laid 5,000 flowers on the Capitol lawn to honor the children who have been killed or brutally maimed in Yemen,” Nick Kimbrell, an organizer from the Avaaz organization, said.

We’re here to show how this war has affected millions of children in Yemen. Hundreds are dead, thousands are starving, and millions have no school to attend,” he added.

“This is the worst humanitarian crises in the world right now and it is still ongoing when it can easily end by just passing this legislation and allowing humanitarian aid,” Iram Ali, a MoveOn activist, stated, referring to a bill sponsored by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders that seeks to pull out US military forces from the conflict.

The Saudi-led military coalition has enjoyed logistic and intelligence support from the UK and the US.

The coalition has been pounding Yemeni towns since March 2015 in order to defeat the Ansarullah movement who took over after the country’s former ex-President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who was aligned with Riyadh, fled the country.Nevertheless, Saudi Arabia has done nothing but killing thousands of oppressed civilians, displacing more than 2 million Yemeni, and triggering fatal epidemic diseases such as Cholera.

Washington went on with its new weapons deals with the Riyadh regime, despite the fact that such weapons are used in Yemen to mainly kill people of Yemen, and amid outcry from

TheUnited Nations and other international organizations have done nothing to stop the arms deals between the two countries; instead, the deal went trough amid outcry only from the UN and other organizations.

Trump has been specifically keen on expanding the military to military ties. He chose the Kingdom as the first destination for his debut state visit last year and lured Saudi rulers to buy $110 billion in US weapons.