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What Kind of Yemen?

in Yemen must know that murder can never be resolved through fur-

ther murder. The way to prevent deaths is not by killing more people.
These aerial bombardments are literally punishing the people of
Yemen en masse: A whole people, be they Zaidi and Sunni, guilty or
innocent, women and children, the sick and the elderly, are all being
targeted. This is an inhumane tactic and a sign of impotence. Mass
bombardments or blockading an entire country are an explicit expres-
sion of failure and inadequacy.

In all democratic systems, people who have committed crimes,
even the most pathological killers, are caught and placed on trial. You
will never see scores of people in a part of any European country being
killed for the sake of punishing one guilty man. Even if wrong policies
are sometimes adopted, human life is of the greatest value in these
countries and those who take life unlawfully know that they will have
to account for themselves before the law.
The command "Thou shalt not kill" that appears in both the Gospel

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