Yemenis sue top US arms manufacturers for 'supporting war crimes'

A group of Yemeni nationals has filed a lawsuit in the United States against major American arms manufacturers Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics for "supporting war crimes and extrajudicial killings." The lawsuit, filed in Washington DC District Court, also named Saudi Arabian and UAE leaders Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed respectively, as well as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin Bombs -- on wedding parties, funeral homes, fishing boats and a school bus -- have killed thousands of civilians and are turning Yemen into the world's worst humanitarian crisis," the lawsuit said in Yemen enabled Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to carry out brutal bombings,” it said. The plaintiffs are seven Yemeni people who say they are the victims of two separate, Saudi Arabia-led bombings in the country - one for a wedding in 2015 and one for a funeral in 2016 In March 2015, in cooperation with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the USA and other Western countries, it launched a devastating war against Yemen.