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Hillary Clinton Foreign Policy (view source)
Revision as of 01:09, June 21, 2016
, 01:09, June 21, 2016→Cluster bombs
Early in her tenure the $29.4 Billion sale and upgrades of Boeing F15 fighter aircraft was a "top priority". The Saudi air campaign in [[Yemen]] has been led by American-made F-15 fighter jets. Acording to the United Nations at least 2,800 civilians have been killed by airstrikes so far.<ref>[http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52938#.V2iKGKLT9aU Yemen: civilian casualties top 8,100 as airstrikes and shelling continue, UN reports], 5 Jauary 2016. un.org</ref> Three facilities supported by Doctors Without Borders have been bombed (Médicins Sans Frontières).
Early in her tenure the $29.4 Billion sale and upgrades of Boeing F15 fighter aircraft was a "top priority". The Saudi air campaign in [[Yemen]] has been led by American-made F-15 fighter jets. Acording to the United Nations at least 2,800 civilians have been killed by airstrikes so far.<ref>[http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52938#.V2iKGKLT9aU Yemen: civilian casualties top 8,100 as airstrikes and shelling continue, UN reports], 5 Jauary 2016. un.org</ref> Three facilities supported by Doctors Without Borders have been bombed (Médicins Sans Frontières).
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=====Cluster bombs<ref>http://www.the-monitor.org/cmm/2012/pdf/Cluster_Munition_Monitor_2012.pdf </ref>=====
The U.N. Secretary General has decried “intense airstrikes in residential areas and on civilian buildings in Sanaa, including the chamber of commerce, a wedding hall, and a center for the blind,” and has warned that reports of cluster bombs being used in populated areas “may amount to a [[war crime]] due to their indiscriminate nature.”<ref>[https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/saudi-christmas-present/ Emails Show Hillary Clinton Aides Celebrating F-15 Sales to Saudi Arabia: “Good News”], Lee Fang, ''The Intgercept'', Feb. 22 2016</ref>
The U.N. Secretary General has decried “intense airstrikes in residential areas and on civilian buildings in Sanaa, including the chamber of commerce, a wedding hall, and a center for the blind,” and has warned that reports of cluster bombs being used in populated areas “may amount to a [[war crime]] due to their indiscriminate nature.”<ref>[https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/saudi-christmas-present/ Emails Show Hillary Clinton Aides Celebrating F-15 Sales to Saudi Arabia: “Good News”], Lee Fang, ''The Intgercept'', Feb. 22 2016</ref>