n its first report to the UN Human Rights Council on the war in Yemen, the UN experts pointed to the killing of civilians, especially in coalition air strikes, as possible war crimes. The UN also referred to possible war crimes by Houthi rebels.
A house destroyed by an air strike in the old quarter of Sanaa, Yemen on August 8, 2018. ( Reuters Archive )
Three experts working for the UN's top human rights body said on Tuesday that the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen may have been responsible for war crimes including rape, torture, disappearances and "deprivation of the right to life" during more than three years of escalated fighting against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The experts have also chronicled the damages from coalition air strikes, the single most lethal force in the fighting, over the last year. They said air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition have caused heavy civilian casualties — including at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats — some of which may also amount to war crimes.
They urged the international community to refrain from providing arms that could be used in the conflict in Yemen.
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