{"id":31461,"date":"2018-02-22T10:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31461"},"modified":"2018-02-22T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:19:43","slug":"is-sweden-complicit-in-war-crimes-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31461","title":{"rendered":"Is Sweden complicit in war crimes in Yemen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Sweden complicit in war crimes in Yemen?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Despite the documented crimes of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Sweden continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A Yemeni man inspects the damage caused by an alleged Saudi-led air strike in Sanaa, Yemen, 04 February 2018. Picture by Hani Al-Ansi\/DPA\/PA Images. All rights reserved. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Despite Sweden leading a few<\/a> special UN sessions<\/a> in response to the acute humanitarian crisis in Yemen, it still has not demonstrated a political appetite to stop its arms sales to the most active warring parties in the Yemen war: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Swedish parliament is due to discuss<\/a>its governmental policies on Swedish arms exports, on the 28th of February \u2013 and anti-militarization Swedish groups are demanding<\/a> that Sweden halts all its arms sales to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

Human rights groups have documented serious attacks committed by both the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis<\/p>\n

In the course of the ongoing war in Yemen<\/a> human rights groups have documented serious attacks committed by both the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis against civilian sites. These attacks appear to have violated international humanitarian law and may constitute war crimes. While the Houthis grew their military<\/a> power ever since they overtook Sana\u2019a on September 2014, with the support of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Saudi-led coalition\u2019s military activities in Yemen were only possible because of their weapon supplies from several western countries – including Sweden.<\/p>\n

The Yemen Data Project reveals<\/a> that since 2015, nearly one-third of Saudi air raids hit non-military sites<\/a>; such as schools, hospitals, weddings, funerals among many other civilian targets. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have both documented dozens of unlawful coalition airstrikes<\/a>, some of which may amount to war crimes.<\/p>\n

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Is Sweden complicit in war crimes in Yemen? Despite the documented crimes of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Sweden continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. A Yemeni man inspects the damage caused by an alleged Saudi-led air strike in Sanaa, Yemen, 04 February 2018. Picture by Hani Al-Ansi\/DPA\/PA Images. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18866,1319,10696,701,771,3217,822,2428,826,3047,901],"class_list":["post-31461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afrah-nasser","tag-armaments","tag-open-democracy","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sweden","tag-uae","tag-un","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-nations","tag-war-crimes","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31462,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461\/revisions\/31462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}