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STORY: OHCHR / YEMEN
TRT: 02:36
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT OHCHR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 OCTOBER 2017, ADEN, YEMEN / 1 NOVEMBER 2017, DJIBOUTI
30 OCTOBER 2017, ADEN, YEMEN
1. Tracking shot, shelled building
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hadil Al-Asbahi, Aden Security Assistant, United Nations:
“Now, more than 2 years of the ending of the conflict, people are still suffering in everything. Lack of services, absence of the government. There is no regular income on monthly basis. The life in general is still dead.”
3. Close up, boy looking at ammunition
1 NOVEMBER 2017, DJIBOUTI
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Ali Alnsour, Chief of the Middle East and North Africa, UN Human Rights Office:
“Basically, this is a human tragedy. This is a war. As we have seen in other crisis, in other wars, Syria for instance, Iraq, the consequences cannot be regional alone. You will see refugees going and trying to find a safe country elsewhere. So, it is a global concern.”
30 OCTOBER 2017, ADEN, YEMEN
5. Wide shot, destroyed army tank
6. Tracking shot, destroyed homes
7. Med shot, destroyed building
1 NOVEMBER 2017, DJIBOUTI
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Elobaid Ahmed Elobaid, Head of UN Human Rights Office in Yemen:
“They are caught in between a vicious war and to a greater extent – the warring parties who do not necessarily care about the well-being of these people. And we are lucky enough to actually encounter and have access to a lot of young Yemeni women and men who care about their country, who are tired of the war, and also tired of the narrative of the war and the image of their country being projected outside. And they want to do something about it. And that is why I think it is the moral responsibility for everybody to help these young people, because they don’t deserve this, they do not want this, they are tired of this, and they are suffocating as a result of this. It’s not just the war, it is the cholera, it is what comes after the cholera. It is the lack of security. It is the kids that have been scared to death. And they still carry the scars of continuous bombardment or maiming and killing and mines and all that stuff. If the world should not care about a situation like this, what should the world care about?”
30 OCTOBER 2017, ADEN, YEMEN
9. Med shot, soldier on the street
10. Wide shot, destroyed building by the sea
11. Wide shot, destroyed building
1 NOVEMBER 2017, DJIBOUTI
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Ali Alnsour, Chief of the Middle East and North Africa, UN Human Rights Office:
“Accountability is a key element in any conflict. It will force the conflicting parties to respect the principles of international humanitarian law and respect their obligations under international human rights law.”
30 OCTOBER 2017, ADEN, YEMEN
13. Aerial shot, Aden
After an official visit to Yemen, a team from the UN Human Rights Office described the situation there as a human tragedy.
Hadil Al-Asbahi, a local UN security Officer, expressed the people’s suffering, summing up livelihood in Yemen as “still dead.”
Speaking of the ongoing conflict, Mohammad Ali Alnsour, Chief of the Middle East and North Africa at the UN Human Rights Office, said “this is a human tragedy. This is a war. As we have seen in other crisis, in other wars Syria for instance, Iraq, the consequences cannot be regional alone. You will see refugees going and trying to find a safe country elsewhere. So, it is a global concern. It is not only a regional conflict. So, we think addressing this conflict and trying to force the conflicting parties to respect their obligations is very important by the international community as a whole.”
The visit laid the groundwork for the group of eminent experts established by the Human Rights Council in September to carry out a comprehensive examination of all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights and international law committed by all parties to the conflict, and, where possible, to identify those responsible. The eminent experts will be appointed before the end of the year by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The UN Human Rights Office has a presence in the country since 2013. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ representative in Yemen, Elobaid Ahmed Elobaid said Yemeni's were tired of the conflict and hopes that the international community will come to their aid.
Elobaid said “Actually, they are caught in between a vicious war and to a greater extent – the warring parties who do not necessarily care about the well-being of these people.
He added: “And that is why I think it is the moral responsibility for everybody to help these young people, because they do not want this, they are tired of this and they are suffocating as a result of this. It’s not just the war, it is the cholera, and it is what comes after the cholera. It is the lack of security. It is the kids that have been scarred to death. And they still carry the scars of continuous bombardment or maiming and killing and mines and all that. If the world should not care about a situation like this, what should the world care about?”
Alnsour said their mission to the war-torn Middle East country was to explain to the different parties to the conflict, the mandate of the eminent experts.
He said “accountability is a key element in any conflict. It will force the conflicting parties to respect the principles of international humanitarian law and respect their obligations under international human rights law. So, it was important for us to pave the way for the international experts.”
The team met with various stakeholders, including the de-facto authorities, government officials and civil society organisations in Sana’a and in Aden.
