(16 Jul 2019) An independent Yemeni human rights group said civilians were paying the human cost of the country's four-year war. In a report on Tuesday released in Paris, the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Mwatana for Human Rights said humanitarian aid had been blocked at a time of impending famine and civilians can no longer move around the country freely or leave.
The group documented 74 cases of obstructing aid or access, largely blaming Iran-backed rebels known as Houthis.
The report was based on more than 2,000 interviews with Yemenis.
The group documented 52 cases of land mines wounding civilians and 150 coalition air-strikes, together killing at least 435 people.
The NGO insisted a British court's decision last June to rule as unlawful British arms sales to Saudi Arabia was a landmark decision.
The court of appeal said the government should assess the risk to civilians and, as legal director Kristine Beckerle put it, "assess whether they ever violated international humanitarian law in the past".
"The court said that, not only that's not right but that's irrational, no logical policy maker could say that we can accurately assess the future risk of selling weapons to a country if we don't look at what they've done in the past", Beckerle stated.
A Saudi-led coalition allied with Yemen's government has been at war with the Houthis since 2015.
The fighting has killed tens of thousands of people.
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