[blind-democracy] FW: Amnesty: US-backed rebels committing war crimes against Kurds

  • From: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 16:38:48 -0400

 

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Subject: Amnesty: US-backed rebels committing war crimes against Kurds


 
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Dear Miriam,

Urge your Rep. to support ending or limiting the supply of US weapons to
combatants in Syria's civil war.


Take
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Amnesty International reports that US and Saudi-backed armed opposition
groups in Aleppo are committing war crimes against Syria's Kurds, and have
called
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Oj7XHazMSFxX9QevL9smNIrXcGJ4XW
KT> on the US and other countries to "immediately block the transfer of arms
to armed groups, including logistical and financial support for such
transfers, where there is credible evidence that they have committed serious
human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law." 

The House of Representatives has a unique opportunity to do something about
this in the coming days. Amendments to the National
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mMB38Ja%2Bb%2BlbgOpejN%2BpyorX
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civil war.

Urge your Representative to support these amendments by signing
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Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Robert Naiman, Avram Reisman, and Sarah Burns
Just Foreign Policy

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