The Saudi-led coalition uses childhood to do this in war against Yemen
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Informed sources said on Tuesday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked Saudi Arabia from being included in an American list of countries that use child soldiers.
Reuters quoted four unidentified people as saying that Pompeo had rejected experts’ findings that Saudi Arabia uses children to fight in the Yemeni war.
It added that the resolution, issued after heated debate, has sparked new accusations by human rights advocates and some members of Congress that the administration of President Donald Trump is preventing criticism of oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
New York Times reported that Saudi Arabia had brought paid fighters from the Sudanese state of Darfur in exchange for thousands of dollars to fight alongside it in Yemen against the Yemeni army forces.The newspaper revealed in its report that among these paid fighters are still children.
The British newspaper ,The Guardian, reported that Saudi Arabia is recruiting children while Britain is training them. At the time, the British Minister of Asia State, Mark Field, said he ordered an investigation into reports that British soldiers were training paid fighters in the Saudi-led coalition forces , backed by the US, in their war against Yemen, pointing to coming investigation about the injury of a number of British soldiers , SAS force, in a clash with the army and the Yemeni army forces.
In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.
Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.