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United Nations top official said warring sides in Yemen, specially
the Saudi-led coalition has no regard for human life.
The top
U.N. official in Yemen said Thursday that Saudi-led airstrikes have
killed scores of civilians in the past 10 days, including 68 in just
one day, in what he called an "absurd war" in which
all sides, including Saudi Arabia’s military coalition, show
"complete disregard for human life".
"This
absurd war ... has only resulted in the destruction of the country
and the incommensurate suffering of its people, who are being
punished as part of a futile military campaign by both sides,"
U.N. resident coordinator Jamie McGoldrick said in a statement.
“I
remind all parties to the conflict, including the Saudi-led
coalition, of their obligations under International Humanitarian Law
to spare civilians and civilian infrastructure and to always
distinguish between civilian and military objects.”
Aid
organizations, including the United Nations, estimate that almost
10,000 people have been killed, more than half of them civilians,
since March 2015 when Saudi Arabia began its ground and air military
campaign against Yemen in a bid to oust the Houthi rebels who had
taken over the capital Sanaa and ousted the Saudi-backed President
Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Also
last week the International Committee of the Red Cross said that
Yemen's cholera epidemic has reached one million suspected cases, as
the Saudi-led war against the impoverished nation leaves more than 80
percent of the population short of food, fuel, clean water and access
to healthcare.
Yemen
has also been under a complete blockade since November which has
meant that the country has no access to “fuel, essential for moving
food and other vital goods around the country, Oxfam said in its
report last week marking 1,000 days of war in country.
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