The sixth anniversary of the Dhayhan schoolbus massacre

This is the story of 43 young pupils on a school trip turned Saudi-led, US-BRITISH-BACKED coalition carnage. On 9 August 2018, in broad daylight on a crowded marketplace, the Saudi-led coalition dropped a Mark 82 (MK-82) bomb, jointly manufactured by the U.S. weapons companies Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, on a brimming full schoolbus.
The attack killed at least 50 and wounded over 60 others, including the 43 children in the schoolbus.

However, U.S. complicity in this specific bombing of a school bus goes far beyond merely providing the munitions used. Indeed, the U.S. military has been providing the Saudi-led coalition “intelligence to fine-tune their [the coalition’s] list of airstrike targets” in Yemen — meaning that the U.S. military was either, at worst, involved in choosing the strike location, or at the very least aware of the coalition’s intention to target the school bus.

Initially, the Saudi-led coalition defended the strike, calling it a “legitimate military operation.” However, a lasting international and some mild pressure from the Western allies suffices to retrieve false allegations and admit the bombing in the category “mistake”.

No attempts have been made ever since to serve justice to the victims, survivors, families, relatives, and friends.