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The Board of Trustees Taha Abutalib - Center Head Hashim Sharaf Adin -Secretary General Mohamed Al-Hatmi - Executive Director Monitoring and Documentation Unite Ahmed Abu-Hamra'a Majed Al-Ezzi Hanan Motahar Reporting Unite Abdulhafes Hashim Ebtissam Shaiban Data Processing Unite Emad Al-Talbi Translation Unite Wafa Ahmed Eman Abdulwase'a The Secretary Amal Abdulrahman Manal Al Jidiri www.lcrdye.org lcrdyemen LegalCenter14 http://legalcenter-ye.blogspot.com 2015 Republic of Yemen Legal Center for Rights and Development Part One Series of Saudi-Led Coalition Crimes in Yemen Done by: Legal Center for Rights and Development Sana›a - Yemen www.lcrdye.org E-mail:[email protected] Legal Center for Rights and Development Contents Our Procedures and Standards in Documenting Reports: ...............................................6 Background: ....................................................................................................................6 Aggression against Yemen and General International Law: ...........................................8 The aggression against Yemen and International Humanitarian Law: ...........................8 Report content summary: ..............................................................................................10 Bani-Hewat Massacre - Sana'a ....................................................................................13 Al-Mazraq Camp Massacre ..........................................................................................25 Yarim-Ibb Massacre ......................................................................................................35 Hejr Okaish Massacre Sana'a - (Bani Matar) ................................................................47 Massacre of Bait Rejal Sana'a - (Bani Matar) ...............................................................53 Massacre at Ibb Sports Stadium and Hall .....................................................................59 Massacre of Houth Amran Governorate 15th of April, 2015 ......................................67 Massacre of FajAttan - Sana’a 20th April, 2015 ...........................................................79 Al-Makhder Bridge Massacre 21st April, 2015 ............................................................95 Sawan Massacre - Sana'a 1 May 2015 ........................................................................103 Al-Karn Massacre Dhamar May 6, 2015 ....................................................................113 Massacre of Sadah nearby (The Cultural Center), May 6, 2015 ................................119 Massacre (Bakeel Al Mair) Hajah May 7, 2015 ........................................................125 Noqum Massacre - Sana'a May 11, 2015 ....................................................................131 Recommendation: .......................................................................................................151 4 Legal Center for Rights and Development Legal Center for Human Rights and Development: Legal center for rights and development is a civil society organization, which is based in Sana'a capital. Its activity has been starting since 2014, also it has been obtaining a license since 2015, it focuses on the fields of community development, the promotion and protection of human rights in accordance with the standards and conventions, which is approved internationally and supported the rule of law, documentation and monitoring the violations. In addition, the center provides legal aid and assistance to the victims of violations and war; also, it does many activities that are related to them. The center monitors daily the violations and issue reports. Moreover, the work of monitoring and documentation of gross violations and issuance reports, also the center issues periodical many statistics of human rights violations and other activities in that field. Our massage: Legal Center for rights and development believes that the happiness and prosperity of human will is not happen, unless the community development through human rights and its freedom, and that can only come from the efforts of a great humanitarian and a continuous and civil society bears the primary burden. 5 Legal Center for Rights and Development Our Procedures and Standards in Documenting Reports: We rely upon several standards to document violations and to collect evidence by sending a specialized team to each area that was targeted by Saudi-led coalition warplanes. The field visits conducted interviews with victims' families, witnesses, doctors, and official departments. Moreover, our team documented death, injury, and damage case by case by taking pictures, medical reports, and official statements. Background: At two clock in the morning on Thursday the fifth of Jumada II 1436 - March 26, 2015 Saudi Ambassador to Washington announced in a news conference that a Saudi Military Operation in Yemen had begun, including the association of ten countries under the pretext of restoration of legitimacy to the resigned President, AbdoraboMansorHadi. They claimed that the military operation will be against Ansar Allah movement (Huthies) and the previous President, Ali Abdullah Saleh and the army which follow him who are part of the Yemen army.. They named the operation «Decisive Storm''. This aggression came after the Gulf Cooperation Countries announced and claimed in their report, the danger of the uprising and stability in Yemen, due to the coup started by the militias (Huthies). The Gulf Counties were worried about the security situation and the serious political conflict. They claimed that “Decisive Storm” would help Yemenis against what they called “The Rebels” to restore peace to Yemen and the region. The countries that joined Saudi Coalition are: United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Pakistan (which the Parliament later decided not to intervene in the operation “Decisive Storm” as they were requested to enter Yemeni soil by land); as well as the United States of America’s participation by providing logistical and intelligence support, in accordance with their announcement. 6 Legal Center for Rights and Development While Saudi Ambassador to Washington was announcing at the news conference, Saudi-led Coalition had already begun by air and sea strikes targeting several areas in Yemen, one of them being a residential area (BeniHowat) close to Sana'a International Airport, which killed and injured tens of Yemeni civilians, including women and children; also resulted in major damage to several houses. This is a war crime. The announcement of war was unexpected and shocking, being illegal and against the will of the Yemeni people, which in turn led the Yemeni people to take to the streets in demonstrations against this aggression. Yemen has been under heavy bombardment, which is attacking anything in its path, humans, trees, stones, roads, bridges, agricultural grounds, infrastructure, ports, airports, sewerage systems, electric transformers, water wells, land communication networks, civilian housing, food storage facilities, food producing factories, historical sites, schools, mosques, cemeteries, sports facilities and included in this, hospitals and medical facilities, leading to the death of many injured people, due to lack of medication. Some cities have been reduced to nothing but rubble, which is a huge loss for the Yemeni people. The ongoing aggressive attack and revenge is interfering in every-day life and has destroyed the ability of the Yemeni people to be able to care for their families. It has destroyed the culture of the Yemeni people… In this book, we have documented some of the destruction with the minimum facilities available to us in this time of destruction. In reality, we could never estimate the entire catastrophe which has been wrought on Yemen due to the lack of human resources and monetary funding to travel to all the places which have been demolished by Saudi airstrikes. The Revolutionary Committee that was previously in support of the resigned President now became the only responsible committee for Yemen and its security; however, The Revolutionary Committee considered the war against Yemen as an obvious aggression affecting our national sovereignty and called on The Coalition countries to stop war against Yemen. 7 Legal Center for Rights and Development Aggression against Yemen and General International Law: Yemen met all of the Fourth Geneva Convention regulations, which are consistent with the protection of civilians during time of aggression in 1949 and Protocol thereof adopted by the Diplomatic Conference of 1977 also, the Hague Convention of 1907; as well as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and the Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations among States to identify and define gross violations ofThe General International law, International Humanitarian Law and related to the same subject in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as follows: (The deliberate killing, inhumane treatment, serious damage to body and health, deportation and non-legitimate transfer of people, The Violations and Crimes That Committed by Saudi-Led Coalition Against Civilians, destruction of properties, bombing of villages, cities, and buildings, attacking places of prayer and historical sites, with the imposition of collective punishment, with no respect for religious beliefs and rituals) The aggression against Yemen and International Humanitarian Law: Yemen met all of the Fourth Geneva Convention regulations,