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http://twitter.com/gloomynews/statuses/15609227132イエメン南部で昨年１２月１７日に米軍の支援を受けた政府軍による無差別爆撃が行われ、米軍提供のクラスター爆弾で２３人の子供、１７人の女性を含む一般市民４９人が殺害されたとアムネスティインターナショナルが報告。
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☆US used cluster bombs on Yemen civilians: Amnesty
（AFP通信）
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100607/usa/yemen_us_unrest_rights_amnestyLONDON (AFP) - A US cruise missile carrying cluster bombs was behind a December attack in Yemen that killed 55 people, most of them civilians, Amnesty International (AI) said on Monday.
The London-based rights group released photographs that it said showed the remains of a US-made Tomahawk missile and unexploded cluster bombs that were apparently used in the December 17, 2009 attack on the rural community of Al-Maajala in Yemen's southern Abyan province.
"Amnesty International is gravely concerned by evidence that cluster munitions appear to have been used in Yemen," said Mike Lewis, the group's arms control researcher.
"Cluster munitions have indiscriminate effects and unexploded bomblets threaten lives and livelihoods for years afterwards," he said.
"A military strike of this kind against alleged militants without an attempt to detain them is at the very least unlawful," said Philip Luther, deputy director of AI's Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Yemen's defence ministry had claimed responsibility for the attack without mentioning a US role, saying between 24 and 30 militants had been killed at an alleged Al-Qaeda training camp.
But a local official said 49 civilians, among them 23 children and 17 women, were killed "indiscriminately."
AI said that a Yemeni parliamentary committee reported in February that in addition to 14 alleged Al-Qaeda militants, 41 local residents, including 14 women and 21 children, were killed in the attack.
"The fact that so many of the victims were actually women and children indicates that the attack was in fact grossly irresponsible, particularly given the likely use of cluster munitions," Luther said.
AI said photographs it had obtained showed damaged remains of the BGM-109D Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile.
"This type of missile, launched from a warship or submarine, is designed to carry a payload of 166 cluster sub-munitions (bomblets) which each explode into over 200 sharp steel fragments that can cause injuries up to 150 metres (about 500 feet) away," an AI statement said.
"An incendiary material inside the bomblet also spreads fragments of burning zirconium designed to set fire to nearby flammable objects," it said.
The Yemen parliamentary committee had said when it visited the site that "all the homes and their contents were burnt and all that was left were traces of furniture," AI said.
AI said it had requested information about the attack from the Pentagon, but had not yet received a response.
Amnesty said it had obtained the photographs from its own sources, but had not released them earlier in order to ascertain their authenticity and give the United States time to respond.
The United States and Yemen have not yet signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a treaty designed to comprehensively ban such weapons which is due to enter into force on 1 August, 2010.
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イエメン軍サウジ軍が反政府勢力を空爆、民間人の死傷が続出
（２００９年１２月２１日の拙ブログ）
http://alcyone.seesaa.net/article/136195862.htmlイエメン南部アビアン州Al-Mahfed地区Al-Maajalaをイエメン軍が空爆。子供２３名と女性１７名を含む少なくても４９名が殺害されたと地元行政管理者が伝えた。
さらにイエメン北西部サーダ州のサウジアラビア国境付近にあるRazeh地区Al-Nadheerで、サウジアラビア軍機が民家に対し１，０００発を超えるミサイル攻撃を加え、女性や子供を含む少なくても５４名が死亡。
☆Yemeni official: Army indiscriminately kills civilians （イラン・プレステレビ）
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114242§ionid=351020206Yemeni forces have "indiscriminately" killed at least 49 civilians in airstrikes described as attacks against 'al-Qaeda operatives' in the south, a local official says.
☆Saudi air raids kill 54 civilians in northern Yemen （イラン・プレステレビ）
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114220§ionid=351020206Saudi warplanes have carried out fresh airstrikes on northern Yemeni villages, killing more than 50 civilians, Houthi sources say.
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この辺りは凄く片田舎でね、部族社会が其の侭大昔から続いてる感じの所です。
アフガンに似ていると言えば似ているか知れない。
だから、江戸時代の日本じゃないけど、敵討ちとか血族の絆が凄い。
最近、日本人が人質に取られて、古式ゆかしい刀に懸けた誓いで部族の逮捕者開放交渉が続く方向で円満解決したでしょ。
恐らく、ソノ関係も双方が強硬姿勢になって仕舞うでしょうね…。
交渉の後見迄して上げたら、日本が「男を上げた」話になるんですけど、コレはもう絶望的な感じの…。
何故、コウも戦線拡大をするかなあ？中東大乱の。
まあ、皆さんご存知の事とは思いますけど、バックに米国の対テロ戦争が圧力として控えてるって、公然の秘密ですし現地では尚更。
イエメンもサウジも不安定化は避けられないでしょうし…。
Posted by 田仁
http://twitter.com/cui4ying1at 2009年12月21日 18:55
待てば海路の日和あり
花を摘みとることはできても、春の訪れを止めることはできない