Saudis Violate Yemen Ceasefire - Again

Date: 21 October 2016 - 20:46

News ID: ۳۲۵۱۵

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

On Thursday, two separate deadly Saudi airstrikes against civilian sites in Yemen’s northwestern provinces of Amran and Sa’ada broke the United Nations-brokered ceasefire – started Wednesday - in the war-ravaged Arabian Peninsula state.
Three people lost their lives, when Saudi fighter jets struck a bridge in the Harf Sufyan district of Amran province, located 53 kilometers northwest of the capital Sana’a. Another three people were killed in the Baqim district of Sa’ada when Saudi warplanes struck a residential building.
The horrifying fact is that such attacks are not isolated cases, but rather, reflect the overall strategy in which the regime changers indiscriminately drop bombs in populated areas:
International rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch keep telling us that they have uncovered yet more evidence of unlawful airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led and U.S-backed coalition, which amounts to war crimes.
In their words, "The repeated targeting of civilian homes are telling examples revealing the coalition forces’ flagrant failure to take sufficient precautions to avoid civilian loss of life as required by international humanitarian law.”
More so, the U.S. has been party to these war crimes, yet along with all nations responsible is violating international requirements to investigate bombings of homes, schools, and refugee camps.
Under international law, the warmongers stand accused of numerous other war crimes too, including unlawful bombings of medical facilities, markets, power plants, factories and warehouses storing humanitarian supplies that are all documented by the Human Rights Watch.
This is while the UN Security Council is yet to launch an independent investigation into these human rights violations, or of any compensation for victims. Quite the opposite, the War Party and its vassals have successfully lobbied the Council to abandon any proposal for an inquiry. Simply put, they always ask the Saudis to carry out such investigations, which is silly at best.
No wonder, except for a handful of nations, no country is demanding an end to such impunity at the UN. This includes the U.S. which by supplying "precise” bombs, coordinating, and directly assisting the Saudi-led military operations, is a party to the conflict, refuses to weigh in, and as such is complicit in Saudi violations.
Tragically, such inattention to civilian deaths in America’s wars isn’t unique to Yemen. There is little evidence that the world community gives much thought to the people who live in the nations where U.S military interventions take place.
The major wars the U.S. has fought since 2001 have produced colossal carnage, particularly in Iraq and Syria, where the War Party’s lack of acknowledgment is less oversight than habit. The U.S. response to so many dead and millions displaced in the two devastated countries is woefully dismissive too. Expect horrible things no less than this for Yemen.