Arab-led coalition rejects censure in U.N. report on Yemen

The Arab-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen rejected Sunday a U.N. report that placed it on an annual blacklist over the deaths of hundreds of children in airstrikes.“The report is imbalanced and does not rely on credible statistics, nor does it serve the Yemeni people,” coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri told the official Saudi Press Agency.

“It misleads the public with incorrect numbers and mostly relies on information from sources associated with the Houthi militia and the deposed [former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah] Saleh,” he said.

The report, released Thursday by the office of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said 785 children had been killed and 1,168 injured in Yemen last year, blaming the Arab-led coalition for 60 percent of the toll.

It blacklisted both the coalition and rebel forces for a “very large number of violations” including “attacks on schools and hospitals.”...
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6/6/16