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Yemen: Today’s Guernica
Cesar Chelala - CounterPunch, 4 Dec 2017

On the market day of Apr 26, 1937, at the bequest of General Francisco Franco, a bombing of the Basque town of Guernica took place. The attack, under the code name Operation Rügen, in which hundreds of people died, became a rallying cry against the brutal killing of innocent civilians. 80 years later an even more criminal action is carried out against Yemeni civilians by Saudi Arabia with the complicity of the United States. World powers have not yet learned the lesson from Guernica.

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