Security Council experts’ report on Yemen contained fallacies: Activists

SANAA, Nov. 02 (YPA) – The report of the UN Security Council Panel of Experts on Yemen has sparked a wave of astonishment among human rights circles.

Human right activists said that “the report contained many fallacies about what is happening in Yemen, through fabricating accusations far from the neutrality that is supposed to characterize the performance of the UN team.”

Observers considered the team’s talk about the existence of “cooperation between the Houthis, Al-Qaeda, and the Somali Youth Movement” to be inconsistent with reality, and it was clear, according to observers, that the team’s report “is trying to fabricate malicious charges in a blatant manner.”

The observers pointed out that all available evidence in Yemen confirms that “the Saudi-led coalition forces are the ones who maintain strong relations with terrorist organizations.”

International organizations and global press reports have previously revealed the existence of close relations between terrorist groups and coalition forces in Yemen. The most prominent of those reports were the Pandora Papers report in early 2022 and reports published by the Associated Press and the American CNN network, which provided in their reports a lot of evidence about the involvement of the coalition countries with terrorist organizations in Yemen.

Khaled Batarfi, leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen, announced on November 12, 2021, that the organization is fighting alongside the coalition forces on 11 Yemeni fronts.

The Security Council experts’ report did not forget to accuse “Houthis” of using social media platforms to incite hatred and national and religious fanaticism,” in a clear reference to the hostile stance taken by the Yemeni people against “Israel” and their stand with the Palestinian people in the face of the genocide crimes committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza.

The UN team had previously, in three previous reports, been biased in favour of the Saudi-led coalition, starting with considering what is happening in Yemen an internal conflict and ignoring the fact that it is an international aggression.

The team’s previous reports also ignored many of the coalition’s violations and war crimes, including the occupation of Yemeni provinces and islands, the use of internationally banned weapons, and the use of the economic card as a weapon of war against Yemenis.

YPA