Larijani Urges UN to Stop Saudi Aggression on Yemen
Tehran – Secretary of the Human Rights Headquarters Mohammad-Javad Larijani called on the UN to take serious action to end Saudi crime of aggression on Yemen, according to IRNA.
In separate letters to the UN Chief, Ban Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Larijani referred to grave humanitarian situation in Yemen and called for serious action of the UN to put an end to the Saudi crime of aggression on Yemen.
Larijani has in the letters urged Ban and Ra’ad Al Hussein to discharge their duty as per Rome Statute 1998 criminalizing use of force and aggression on sovereign nations.
He highlighted accountability of perpetrators of aggression and use of force before The Hague-based International Criminal Court.
Larijani expressed outrage at killing of more than 3000 people, including 700 women and children, and maiming more than 10,000 innocent civilians by Saudi air strikes.
Larijani said as Article 23 of the Geneva Convension IV, the International Humanitarian Law obliged the governments to allow free shipment of medical and food supplies to the people trapped in conflict.
He said that the IHL 1949 envisaged respect for the people’s right to have food and drinking water in the course of armed conflicts.
Many Yemeni citizens are incapable of meeting their main food requirements, said the official, adding that practices of the coalition formed against Yemen are flagrant instances of violation of Article 54 of the first additional protocol to the four Geneva Conversions and are considered war crimes and crime against humanity based on the IHL 1949.
He said that refusal to allow shipment of humanitarian supplies will be collective punishment of the Yemeni people.
Larijani said any intervention on part of any government or coalition is manifest breach of the Rome Statue 1998.
‘I should recall that use of force in any form is forbidden under the international law.’
Aggression on Yemen brings accountability for Saudi government, says Boroujerdi
On the other hand in Boroujerd, a senior member of parliament Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that Saudi government perpetrated crime of aggression on Yemen, the manifest breach of Rome Statute 1998 which brings accountability before the International Criminal Court.
Speaking in a meeting with local officials of the city of Boroujerd in the westerns province of Lorestan, Boroujerdi, also the head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, described the security situation in Muslim regional countries as critical.
Boroujerdi said that the Iranian people have to be grateful about the existing security in the country under leadership of the Supreme Leader.
Saudi air strikes on Yemen on Sunday killed 30 civilians, women, children and the elderly.
The Saudi government says its indiscriminate bombardment of Yemen aims to restore power of the fugitive president toppled by popular uprising of the Yemeni people.
Iran has called on The Hague-based ICC to bring to justice the Saudi Air Force commander for the crimes against humanity perpetrated in Yemen upon his order to the Saudi pilots.
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