U.S (WIN WITHOUT WAR) : Add your name to call for a full accounting on U.S. involvement in YEMEN.

 

 

 

Friend : In an era where every piece of information is just a click away, the secrecy over U.S. operations in Yemen is not just concerning – it's deeply alarming. 

After nearly a decade of civil war, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is dire. As efforts to expand a truce and move toward a peace process continue, millions face starvation, disease, and displacement. President Biden ran on a commitment to END U.S. complicity in Yemen’s conflicts, but there is distressing evidence U.S. drone strikes have continued.

Evidence from 2023 paints a troubling picture, and the possibility of U.S. drone strikes occurring in a central Yemeni province in January and February leaves us begging the question : What is the U.S. military doing in Yemen ?

We all deserve answers. U.S. silence, on top of a history of secrecy around its military operations, is cause to ask for them. We must work to lift the shadows over U.S. operations in Yemen and beyond — and this starts at the top by pushing the president for greater transparency.

It's time to break the silence. Demand the Biden administration provide a full, detailed account of U.S. operations — defensive and offensive — in Yemen. We deserve it. The world deserves it. And most importantly, Yemenis deserve it.

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Over the past 13 years, the U.S. government has had a hand in two conflicts in Yemen : A war against groups with ties to Al Qaeda and ISIS, and a devastating civil war exacerbated by Saudi and UAE intervention. The United States has taken a violence-first approach for both, and that looks like dropping — or supporting others to rain down — bombs that kill everyday people. At the same time, there’s been sluggish support for grassroots peacebuilding efforts that could ease the country’s instability. 

Recent disclosures by The New York Times have shed light on the Biden administration's new rules for counterterrorism operations outside "areas of active hostilities." While Syria and Iraq are openly recognized, Yemen remains conspicuously absent from the list.

Despite that omission, the independent conflict monitor Airwars has recorded as many as 12 potential U.S. strikes in Yemen between January 2021 and June 2023. Yet the U.S. has not officially confirmed a strike in Yemen since 2020.

Together we’ve built power in Washington to end U.S. complicity in furthering violence in Yemen, and today that work continues, because the sheer possibility that Biden is breaking his promise is outrageous. It’s time to hold the U.S. morally accountable for its role in the devastation, and that requires transparency over the true nature of its involvement. 

As advocates for peace, we have to seek clarity. Demand that President Biden provide an updated and detailed account of offensive and defensive U.S. operations in Yemen.

History has shown us the perils of unchecked power and lack of transparency. From communities in the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, the United States has been embroiled in conflicts that have not only destroyed lives, but also tarnished our global reputation.

Opaque operations like these laid the foundation for backwards U.S. policy in Yemen — and every day that we avoid the consequences of our culpability, more people suffer and are pushed closer to the brink of death. 

But that can change. Together, let's champion transparency and advocate for a more accountable foreign policy.

Thank you for working for peace,

 

Sara, Eric, Amy, and the Win Without War team

 

 

 

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