Death toll of Western-backed war on Yemen exceeds 90,000, says new data

19 June 219|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi

New data analysis by conflict monitoring group ACLED has led them to conclude that at least 91,600 Yemeni men, women and children have been killed by the US/UK backed war on Yemen. But even that figure may ultimately prove to be very much an underestimate.

Over 91,000 men, women and children have been killed by the Western-backed war in Yemen since 2015, says a US-based monitoring group. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)  just published its latest report following new data it has collected in partnership with the Yemen Data Project. According to the report, there were:

91,600 total reported fatalities from the start of 2015 to the present.
A minimum of 11,700 civilians killed from “direct targeting”
ACLED says that:

nearly 4,500 direct civilian targeting events resulting in approximately 11,700 reported civilian fatalities.

In August 2018 an airstrike destroyed a school bus killing 40 children and 11 adults using a 500-pound laser-guided bomb, manufactured by US firm Lockheed Martin.

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