PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Your Saudi supporting tax dollars at work. Be proud!
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO
Saudi Arabia has reportedly recruited children from Darfur to join its military campaign in Yemen.
The New York Times reports that as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting for the Saudi-led coalition over the last four years.
Almost all of those fighters come from Darfur, which had its own civil war resulting in 300,000 deaths and 1.2 million people displaced in the early 2000s.
Many of the militiamen helping the Saudi-led coalition belong to the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces, who were blamed for the systematic raping of women and girls and indiscriminate killing during the conflict in Darfur, according to the Times. Read the rest of this entry »
MCViewPoint 