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UN: Civilian Death Toll in Yemen Rises Above 1,600 |
2015-07-20 |
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... says at least 142 civilians have been killed in 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... over the past 10 days, sending the total civilian corpse count in more than three months of violence above 1,600. Air strikes and ground fighting have continued despite a U.N.-brokered truce between Iranian catspaws known as Houthis and Yemen's internationally backed exiled government and its allies. Rupert Colville, a front man for the U.N. human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... office, said in Geneva that at least 142 non-combatants were killed between July 3 and Monday and another 224 were maimed. That included a total of 76 deaths and 38 injuries in a pair of |
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