#Yémen : le gouvernement contre la poursuite d’une enquête de l’#ONU | #Moyen-Orient
▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/moyen-orient/201809/27/01-5198147-yemen-le-gouvernement-contre-la-poursuite-dune-enquete-de-lonu.p
Ce gouvernement, reconnu par la #communauté_internationale, a souligné dans un communiqué son « rejet des outils qui lui sont imposés en violation de sa #souveraineté » dans une référence à la mission d’experts jusqu’ici mandatés par l’ONU.
Yemen War Investigation Is Extended by U.N. Council - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/middleeast/un-yemen-war-saudi.html
The 47-member Council voted 21 to 8, with 18 abstentions, in favor of a resolution supporting the experts’ work. The vote came minutes after the conclusion of days of discussions between the Saudi Arabia and its allies and a group of countries led by the Netherlands and Canada.
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...the panel blamed the Saudi coalition’s airstrikes, blockades and shipping restrictions for most of the war’s civilian casualties as well as the immense damage to Yemen’s critical infrastructure, which has worsened the plight of millions of civilians. The report also detailed torture, rape and sexual violence by security forces controlled by the United Arab Emirates.
Hammering home the war’s human costs, Mark Lowcock, the United Nations emergency relief chief, speaking at the Security Council last week, described civilians reduced to eating leaves. Mr. Lowcock warned that Yemen was reaching a tipping point “beyond which it will be impossible to prevent massive loss of life as a result of widespread famine across the country.”