Saudis child soldiers: On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

[koshergrl]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
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The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

They aren't "hiring child soldiers". This is slavery.

Muslims have always been about slavery. That's why democrats like them.

 

[strollingbones]

is that why trump and his crime gang support the saudis?

 

[strollingbones]

 

[eagle1462010]

In Somalia we went to SAVE THEM..........but they would rather die from starvation than embrace our help........Firing on our forces and UN forces whose only purpose was to protect food and medical supplies to save lives.............Ending in a fight because those with the guns get the food over there..........it's just the way it is...........we left.........and they went back to starving because they BIT THE HAND THAT WAS FEEDING THEM.

The Somali people were extremely thankful in the beginning that American food supplies were being distributed by our military to the starving people.

But over time, due to misguided mission creep, our military started getting involved with internal Somali political problems, which resulted in innocent civilians being killed.

And that's when the Somali people turned against us. ...

The War Lords were were taking UN relief supplies by force.......with guns...........that is why we were there........They weren't starving........they were stealing the food.......That is why Military forces went in there.....................that was the mission.......and when they wouldn't stop the mission creep was firing at them because they wouldn't stop............

Early on in that mission........spec ops.......seals found most of the main Warlords troops on the Kenya border..........The 24th MEU went in and surrounded them and had them completely isolated...........They were meat on the table..............A message was sent to them to knock it off.......and allow us to distribute the food peacefully.............Then the MEU pulled out.............shortly after that the Amphib group and MEU went to Kuwait for a training exercise........After the MEU was on the beach.............these same Warlords attacked in Somalia...........killing many UN forces ............The battle group was ordered to go back to Somalia......They were loaded up and we hauled ass out of the Gulf.............After getting out of the Gulf we STOPPED..........and sat there for 2 days.........then were told to go back..............Once there the War Lords hid...........and multiple missions were out to find them and kill those who attacked UN forces........unable to find them in any concentration the battle group split up............Most staying in Mogandishu..........The Wasp went to Kismiu........or however the hell you spell it............Ops went on........no major fights...........and then we left................

We............I was there..............and I doubt many know what I just told you..........

After we left Clinton called a reduction of forces...........These forces were asked to do more with less............denied support they conducted military ops even though they asked for armor.........more air power.........and support from the Sea............that was not given...........and now we have the great movie Black Hawk Down.............Pakistan saved our forces butt on that one..........from a President who refused to give the support that was needed there.........And we left..............and now Somalia is still a shithole.

 

[August West]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

They aren't "hiring child soldiers". This is slavery.

Muslims have always been about slavery. That's why democrats like them.

In 1860 you would`ve been a Republican? It`s more likely that you would`ve rode with J.W. Booth. We know what the democrats were like several decades ago and we know what you are today from your idiotic posts.

 

[Denizen]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

They are Muslim............and many will go to the dark side of Islam..........We've been down this path before and History repeats itself time and time again.

In Somalia we went to SAVE THEM..........but they would rather die from starvation than embrace our help........Firing on our forces and UN forces whose only purpose was to protect food and medical supplies to save lives.............Ending in a fight because those with the guns get the food over there..........it's just the way it is...........we left.........and they went back to starving because they BIT THE HAND THAT WAS FEEDING THEM.

Intelligent people don't associate being killed with being saved.

The USA and it's allies long ago abandoned Africa for anything but arms sales and combat experience.

Same applies to South America.

With Trump in command Africa and South America are being further isolated because Trump and Kushner don't see any easy buck there for their personal wealth..

 

[depotoo]

is that why trump and his crime gang support the saudis?

Obama administration arms sales offers to Saudi top $115 billion: report | Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has offered Saudi Arabia more than $115 billion in weapons, other military equipment and training, the most of any U.S. administration in the 71-year U ...

 

[Denizen]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

The Saudis did come and live among their ilk, American conservatives. Then they took down the WTC while American conservatives obstructed and then corrupted investigations.

OBL was disavowed...........does that mean others there in Saudi Arabia don't like us..........not at all.........You will find the Dark Side of Islam in every country on the planet from Islam............the same can be said of almost all of them................

If it wasn't for oil............the middle east would be the same as Africa today...........

Christianity also has a dark side.

OBL was a tool of the USA in acts of terrorism against the Russians and Afghanis in the 1980s.

OBL was never diavowed by American Institutions.

 

[Denizen]

In Somalia we went to SAVE THEM..........but they would rather die from starvation than embrace our help........Firing on our forces and UN forces whose only purpose was to protect food and medical supplies to save lives.............Ending in a fight because those with the guns get the food over there..........it's just the way it is...........we left.........and they went back to starving because they BIT THE HAND THAT WAS FEEDING THEM.

The Somali people were extremely thankful in the beginning that American food supplies were being distributed by our military to the starving people.

But over time, due to misguided mission creep, our military started getting involved with internal Somali political problems, which resulted in innocent civilians being killed.

And that's when the Somali people turned against us. ...

Soldiers kill civilians because they are easier to kill than armed fighters who shoot back.

Any victim of soldiers then is labeled a terrorist because they are dead and cannot deny the allegation.

 

[Denizen]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

They aren't "hiring child soldiers". This is slavery.

Muslims have always been about slavery. That's why democrats like them.

Grifters Trump and Kushner love slavery.

 

[Sunni Man]

and 14 to 17 probably make the best Soldiers , murderers , killers , warriors or Soldiers anyway . Probably lots of 11 or 12 year olds that are also pretty good .

Visit the ghetto in any large American city and you'll see hundreds of armed child soldiers in gangs roaming the streets and killing each other. ..

 

[Denizen]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
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The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

They aren't "hiring child soldiers". This is slavery.

Muslims have always been about slavery. That's why democrats like them.

In 1860 you would`ve been a Republican? It`s more likely that you would`ve rode with J.W. Booth. We know what the democrats were like several decades ago and we know what you are today from your idiotic posts.

You are evidently suffering severe angst from the impact of my words. "Several decades ago" only takes you to the 1990s.

Your delusions must be very painful to you.

 

[Denizen]

and 14 to 17 probably make the best Soldiers , murderers , killers , warriors or Soldiers anyway . Probably lots of 11 or 12 year olds that are also pretty good .

Visit the ghetto in any large American city and you'll see hundreds of armed child soldiers in gangs roaming the streets and killing each other. ..

The ghetto of your deluded mind?

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

The Saudis did come and live among their ilk, American conservatives. Then they took down the WTC while American conservatives obstructed and then corrupted investigations.

Funny how it was under Clinton that those Saudi's lived so well. Then 2 years later and the failure of the FBI yes the WTC came crashing down. Want to continue with the true history lesson, or are you ready to run away like a little girl because your side fucked up?

 

[koshergrl]

and 14 to 17 probably make the best Soldiers , murderers , killers , warriors or Soldiers anyway . Probably lots of 11 or 12 year olds that are also pretty good .

Visit the ghetto in any large American city and you'll see hundreds of armed child soldiers in gangs roaming the streets and killing each other. ..

Yup you will.
Democrat slaves.

 

[Correll]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

Why is this America's problem? Are we the world's policeman?

 

[August West]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

They aren't "hiring child soldiers". This is slavery.

Muslims have always been about slavery. That's why democrats like them.

In 1860 you would`ve been a Republican? It`s more likely that you would`ve rode with J.W. Booth. We know what the democrats were like several decades ago and we know what you are today from your idiotic posts.

You are evidently suffering severe angst from the impact of my words. "Several decades ago" only takes you to the 1990s.

Your delusions must be very painful to you.

2 (two) decades aren`t "several decades". The Republicans have been the Klan`s party a lot longer than 20 years.

 

[Correll]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

They aren't "hiring child soldiers". This is slavery.

Muslims have always been about slavery. That's why democrats like them.

In 1860 you would`ve been a Republican? It`s more likely that you would`ve rode with J.W. Booth. We know what the democrats were like several decades ago and we know what you are today from your idiotic posts.

You are evidently suffering severe angst from the impact of my words. "Several decades ago" only takes you to the 1990s.

Your delusions must be very painful to you.

2 (two) decades aren`t "several decades". The Republicans have been the Klan`s party a lot longer than 20 years.

Only a fucktard would equate the Klan with the GOP. YOu are a fucktard.

 

[August West]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

The Saudis did come and live among their ilk, American conservatives. Then they took down the WTC while American conservatives obstructed and then corrupted investigations.

Funny how it was under Clinton that those Saudi's lived so well. Then 2 years later and the failure of the FBI yes the WTC came crashing down. Want to continue with the true history lesson, or are you ready to run away like a little girl because your side fucked up?

It was the Democrats that were supposed to read Gomer`s daily briefing to him that warned of a terrorist attack using aircraft? He was warned on August 6, 2001. Facts are facts and screeching about the Dems or Clinton isn`t making your case but it does make you look foolish. I`m feeling kind today and that`s why I`m not calling you stupid. Tomorrow is another day.
Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US - Wikipedia

 

[Rustic]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
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The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

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