US 'May Have' Committed War Crimes? A Hill Too Far for Amnesty.
Amnesty International, ever the cautious observer, released a report suggesting a US-backed 2023 strike on a Yemeni prison, killing five, 'may have' constituted a war crime. This comes nearly a decade after a US-Saudi coalition strike hit a Yemeni prison in 2015, killing dozens – an incident Amnesty also documented. The pattern here? US arms, Saudi pilots, Yemeni casualties, and Amnesty's
perpetual furrowed brow, which somehow rarely culminates in definitive condemnation of the hand funding the war. We’re expected to treat every such incident as an isolated anomaly, a 'mistake' in an otherwise humanitarian bombing campaign. The US, which armed and supported the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen responsible for countless civilian deaths, continues to project concern while selling more
F-16s. How many investigations and 'may haves' does it take before we acknowledge the obvious connection between US military aid and civilian slaughter?