Sinds Saoedi-Arabië en een aantal andere Arabische landen waaronder Egypte en Marokko (met 'morele steun' van de VS en gelieerde westerse landen) hun illegale oorlog tegen Jemen begonnen in maart 2015, is het aantal oorlogsmisdaden niet meer te tellen.... Scholen, ziekenhuizen en woonwijken en belangrijke civiele infrastructuur, zijn het favoriete doel bij de bombardementen van de Saoedische coalitie........ Intussen zijn er sinds maart vorig jaar 6.677 Jemenieten omgekomen, waaronder een groot aantal vrouwen en kinderen...... Naast het hiervoor genoemde bombarderen van belangrijke civiele infrastructuur, wordt de Jemenitische bevolking middels blokkades, medicijnen, water en brandstof onthouden. BBC World Service meldde vanmorgen dat een groot aantal Jemenieten nu echt honger lijden door diezelfde blokkades........... Voorts zou de corrupte ex-president Al-Hadi terug zijn in Jemen.
Het is ronduit schandalig, dat er zo weinig aandacht is voor deze oorlog in de westerse media en politiek, maar ja wat wil je, als men gretig het fascistenbewind in Saoedi-Arabië steunt, zelfs als dat bewind IS en andere psychopathische terreurgroepen steunt met geld en wapens (ook in Syrië!).... Hier een uitzondering:
British daily, The Guardian, obtained a UN report which says that the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen has performed “widespread and systematic” attacks on civilian targets
British
daily, The Guardian, obtained a 51-page UN report conducted by a
panel of experts on Yemen, which is already sent to the UN
Security Council last week but it is still unpublished.
According
to Guardian, in one of the key findings, the report says: “The
panel documented that the coalition had conducted airstrikes
targeting civilians and civilian objects, in violation of
international humanitarian law, including camps for internally
displaced persons and refugees; civilian gatherings, including
weddings; civilian vehicles, including buses; civilian residential
areas; medical facilities; schools; mosques; markets, factories and
food storage warehouses; and other essential civilian infrastructure,
such as the airport in Sana’a, the port in Hudaydah and domestic
transit routes.” The reported adds that: “The panel documented
119 coalition sorties relating to violations of international
humanitarian law.”
Saudi
Arabia, with the support of her allies in the Middle East and North
Africa and armed
by her Western allies,
commits numerous airstrikes in Yemen, targeting areas controlled by
the Shia Yemeni rebels known as the Houthis.
The
rebels together with some of Yemen’s security forces loyal to
former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh overthrew the US
and Saudi Arabia supported
Yemeni government. After the Houthi’s operation, current Yemeni
President, who was former deputy of Saleh, Abd Rabbuh Mansur
Hadi went to Saudi Arabia, and since March the Saudi coalition,
bombs Yemen sites in support of Hadi. Saudi Arabia also accuses Iran
of supporting the Houthis.
The
political rivalries in the Middle East, are worsening the war in
Yemen, fueling Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe. Thousands of
people are being killed in the catastrophic war, 2.5 million are
being displaced and 7.6 million are on the verge of hunger. The UN
leaked report attributes 60 percent (2,682) of civilian deaths and
injuries in Yemen to air-launched explosive weapons.
According
to Guardian the report says: “The coalition’s targeting of
civilians through airstrikes, either by bombing residential
neighborhoods or by treating the entire cities of Sa’dah and Maran
as military targets, is a grave violation of the principles of
distinction, proportionality and precaution. In certain cases, the
panel found such violations to have been conducted in a widespread
and systematic manner.”
Moreover
the report acknowledges that the Yemeni rebels are positioned in
residential areas in violation of international humanitarian law,
bust sill this “does not suspend the coalition’s obligation to
respect international humanitarian law when undertaking military
objectives.
“Holding
perpetrators of violations of international humanitarian law and
international human rights law to account is fundamental and
necessary for tackling impunity and deterring future violations in
Yemen,” it says.
The
panel recommends the establishment of an investigation into its
findings, “with a view to ensuring that those responsible are held
accountable.”
Amnesty
International has already reported that war crimes are committed by
both the Yemeni
rebels,
and the Arab
coalition but
the latest it is said to have caused the majority of the civilian
casualties.
In
2015, Dutch
diplomats in the UN, once asked for an independent war crimes inquiry
in Yemen.
However, the inquiry was blocked by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf
countries such as Bahrain and Qatar which claimed that a war
crimes investigation must be launched by the Yemeni government.
In
the meantime, many Yemeni citizens, are against the involvement of
Saudi Arabia in their country, protesting against the air-strikes and
the violence.
en: 'Saoedische terreurcoalitie bombardeerde de afgelopen 3 maanden, 3 ziekenhuizen van Artsen zonder Grenzen.......'
en: 'Giro 555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden???'
en: 'Giro 555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden???'
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