[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A group of Yemen...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i nationals has filed a lawsuit in the US against military contractors Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics, accusing them of "aiding and abetting war crimes and extrajudicial killings" by supplying arms to the Saudi-led aggression on Yemen.
The lawsuit, filed in the district court of Washington DC, also names the leaders of Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
and the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world...
and Mohammed bin Zayed, respectively, as well as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin.
"Year after year, the bombs fell — on wedding tents, funeral halls, fishing boats and a school bus — killing thousands of civilians and helping turn Yemen into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis," read the lawsuit.
It further mentioned that "Weapons supplied by US companies through sales unlawfully approved by US officials, allowed Saudi Arabia and the UAE through the named Defendant officials to pursue an indiscriminate and brutal bombing campaign."
The plaintiffs are seven Yemeni individuals who say they represent the victims of two separate bombings in the country — one for a wedding in 2015 and another for a funeral in 2016.
In October 2015, the al-Sanabani family was readying to celebrate a relative’s wedding when a warplane bombed the area, martyring 43 people including 13 women and 16 children, according to Human Rights Watch [HRW].
One year later, in October 2016, a crowded funeral was bombed and more than 100 people were martyred. HRW reported that the bomb used was the US-manufactured GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb.
"I found him under a burning car, he was dead, his legs were cut off, and his right hand was cut off too, he was completely burnt," Khaled Ali Salem Chaib, one of the victims, said in a statement detailing the death of his son from the wedding bombing in 2015.
He further mentioned that "Some nights when I sleep, I feel tight in my body, and I have disturbing nightmares and I can’t bear to see the scene of the crime since."
The Yemenis are filing the lawsuit under the Torture Victim Protection Act [TVPA], a 1991 US law that allows victims of torture to sue for compensation from their tormenters if the accused are in the US.
The lawsuit names the Saudi and Emirati crown princes under the Alien Tort Statute, a law that grants federal courts jurisdiction over violations of international law.