How Saudi Arabia Tried to Blame Doctors Without Borders After Bombing Its Cholera Treatment Center

Saudi Arabia tried to blame Doctors Without Borders after the US-backed Saudi coalition bombed the medical group’s cholera treatment center in Yemen. MSF says this is ridiculous and false.

Ben Norton
By Ben Norton
People search under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. The airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeted Yemen's capital early on Friday, hitting at least three houses in Sanaa and killing at least 14 civilians, including women and children, residents and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

The Saudi embassy in the United States pointed the finger at Doctors Without Borders after the US-backed Saudi coalition bombed the medical humanitarian group’s newly constructed cholera treatment center in Yemen. The Saudi government circulated a misleading fax from a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) employee, to try to absolve itself of

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US-Backed Coalition Bombs New Cholera Treatment Center in Yemen

The US-backed Saudi/Emirati coalition bombed a newly constructed cholera treatment center in Yemen run by Doctors without Borders. Ther attack comes as Yemen suffers through the worst cholera outbreak in recorded history.

Ben Norton
By Ben Norton
The US-backed Saudi/Emirati coalition bombed a newly constructed cholera treatment center in Yemen run by MSF. This air attack comes after the impoverished country suffered through the worst cholera outbreak in recorded history.

A military coalition formally led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and supported by the United States and Britain, bombed a newly constructed cholera treatment center in Yemen on Monday, June 11.This attack comes after Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, suffered through the worst cholera outbreak in recorded history, with

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Doctors Without Borders: Myanmar Military Killed Over 700 Rohingya Children

59 percent of the children were shot, while 15 percent burned to death in their homes, 7 percent succumbed to beatings and 2 percent were killed by landmines.

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By teleSUR
Rohingya woman Dildar Begum and her daughter Noor Kalima, who crossed over to Bangladesh recover at Sadar Hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. Begum said she and her daughter Noor Kalima, got stabbed by Myanmar soldiers and her husband was killed. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

An estimate from Doctors Without Borders shows that at least 6,700 refugees have been killed during the first month of militarized persecution. At least 730 Rohingya children under the age of five have been mercilessly slaughtered by Myanmar police forces in an almost six-month crusade against the Muslim community, Doctors Without Borders

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Doctors Without Borders: French Police Harass Migrants, Even Steal Blankets

MSF has reported the use of tear gas to disperse migrants, constant police vigils that wake them up in the middle of the night and not allowing them to sit down while they wait for shelter.

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By teleSUR
Migrants are pushed back by police officers as they wait to board buses to temporary shelters in Paris, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)

(REPORT) --- Police in Paris have been engaging in “systematic ... violence” that includes endangering migrants' lives by stealing their blankets in the middle of winter, according to international charitable group Doctors Without Borders – known commonly by its French acronym, MSF. The forced closure of migrant camps such as the notorious

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From Drone Killings To Hospital Bombings: 15 Years Of Civilian Deaths In The Global War On Terror

Doctors Without Borders asked ‘the U.S., U.K. and France to ensure an immediate application of measures to substantially increase the protection of civilians’ after the latest deadly hospital bombing in Yemen.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
refugee crisis

AUSTIN, Texas --- The recent bombing of a hospital in northwestern Yemen has drawn international outrage and new criticism of the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed forces fighting there, but it’s just the latest in a slew of war crimes committed over the past 15 years in the name of the U.S.-backed global war on terror. Nineteen people were killed and 24

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US Withdraws Most Military Support Staff From Saudi’s War On Yemen

The announcement comes at the end of a week of several high-profile incidents in which Saudi warplanes attacked and killed significant numbers of Yemeni civilians.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
The remains of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen’s capital on Thursday. Photograph: Hani Mohammed/AP

The Pentagon has withdrawn the vast majority of the military personnel involved in Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen, officials revealed today, saying there are now “fewer than five” troops inside Saudi Arabia participating in the operation, down from nearly 45 at the peak of America’s involvement. The announcement comes at the end of a week of

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