Yemeni Center for Human Rights holds aggression the responsible of using IDPs’ as human shields

The Yemeni Center for Human Rights condemned the crime of useing the IDPs’ camps in the Ma’rib governorate as human shields by the US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries.

The Yemeni Center said in a statement issued on Friday that they observed the forces of the coalition building combat barricades in the midst of one of the camps outside the city.

Witnesses from among the displaced living in “Sanaa” camp stated that the aggression forces prevented them from leaving the camp although deployed with military crews and medium weapons.

The Yemeni Center for Human Rights confirmed that the use of IDPs’ camps is one of the worst war crimes committed in the governorate of Ma’rib, which is under the occupation and control of the Saudi military forces, in accordance with international law that criminalizes the use of civilians as human shields – the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949 and the 1977 Additional Protocol thereto. And the Treaty of Rome in 1998.

The Yemeni Center stated that it is in the process of addressing the United Nations agencies, and it also appeals to all free people of the world to quickly intervene and save the displaced from inhumane practices.