Aid group urges Europe to halt arms to Saudis bombing Yemen
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An international coalition of 100 aid and rights organizations has urged Western countries to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia for its extensive air campaign against Iran-backed Shiite rebels in Yemen.
The Control Arms Coalition says the air campaign has caused heavy casualties. The group on Friday released a report listing 11 countries — including France, Britain, U.S. and Germany — that it says have sold arms such as drones, missiles and bombs worth $25 billion dollars in 2015 to the kingdom.
The report says the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen amounts to a "gross violations of human rights and possible war crimes."
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The United Nations says the fighting in Yemen has killed more than 6,000 Yemenis since March 2015, and more than 35,000 have been wounded.