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UN Rights Experts Urge Countries to Stop Fueling War in Yemen

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on
   Yemen is calling for an end to the multi-billion-dollar arms trade that
   it says is fueling the war in Yemen and turned the country into what
   the U.N. considers the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe.

   The group's report will be submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council
   later this month.

   Six years of relentless war have ravaged the country and its people,
   killing an estimated 100,000 including 12,000 civilians. The group of
   experts reports millions of people are subjected by all parties to the
   conflict to a wide range of systematic violations of human rights. It
   says some may amount to war crimes.

   The experts say none of the warring parties have clean hands. They say
   indiscriminate attacks are being carried out by both the Saudi-led
   coalition and Houthi rebels, inflicting harm on civilians and civilian
   objects.

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