US bombs are killing children in Yemen. Does anybody care? | Moustafa Bayoumi

The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions

This is not a column about Donald Trump. It’s also not about Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, or Robert Mueller, and it’s certainly not about Rudolph Giuliani and his way with words. On the contrary, this is a column about the things we are not paying attention to, and why we should. 

On August 9, the US-backed Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen against a Houthi-led rebellion dropped a bomb on a school bus packed with children. According to reports, the excited kids had been on a school trip marking the end of their summer classes, and as they passed a busy marketplace, the bomb directly hit their vehicle. 

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