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Instruct the State Department to Approve No Further Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia

Created on April 09, 2016

According to Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/07/yemen-us-bombs-used-deadliest-market...) on March 15, 2016, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition airstrikes in in Mastaba, in northwestern Yemen, killed at least 97 civilians, including 25 children, with United States-supplied bombs. These represent only a small share of the massive weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, including cluster munitions, which are then used with increasing regularity against civilians, including children. Despite this, the State Department continues to approve more sales to Saudi Arabia. The tacit support for this conflict must end, and the President must instruct the State Department to stop approving arms sales to Saudi Arabia in order to ensure that it does.

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