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UAE, Saudi Arabia, Houthis may have committed war crimes in Yemen: UN experts
[DAWN] All sides in Yemen's bloody conflict may have committed war crimes, UN Sherlocks said on Tuesday, highlighting deadly air strikes, rampant sexual violence, and the recruitment of young children as soldiers.In their first report, a team of UN-mandated Sherlocks said they had "reasonable grounds to believe that the parties to the armed conflict in Yemen  ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...have committed a substantial number of violations of international humanitarian law." Many of these violations may amount to "war crimes", the report said, pointing to widespread arbitrary detention, rape, torture and the recruitment of children as young as eight to take part in hostilities. Kamel Jendoubi, who heads the UN's so-called Group of Independent Eminent International and Regional Experts, said the Sherlocks had identified a number of alleged perpetrators. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-29 |
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