Yemen’s Ansarullah Urges UNSC Probe into Saudi-Led Attack on School Bus
TEHRAN (Basirat): A member of the political council of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to form a committee to investigate Thursday's Saudi-led air strike on a school bus, which killed dozens of Yemeni children, many under the age of 10.
In a post on his twitter account on Saturday, Abdallah al-Ajri referred to the
UNSC’s session on the Thursday air strike and said the Security Council did not
need to hold a meeting to call for an investigation into the terrible crime of
the Saudis.
The least the council should have announced was the formation of an independent
committee to probe into this "horrible” crime, he wrote.
The Yemeni official added that an international committee should have been
formed from the beginning of the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen to
investigate the crimes of the aggressors.
After private discussions on the air strikes, the UNSC said in a statement
Friday that there should be a "credible, transparent" investigation, but it did
not specifically indicate that it wants an "independent" probe.
The Security Council said it "expressed grave concern" about the airstrike and
all other recent attacks in Yemen. At least five Security Council nations called
for the session, which included a briefing from a senior UN official.
The children were on a field trip when their bus was struck at a market, the
first stop of the day, killing 50 and injuring 77, according to the Yemeni
Health Ministry.
Source: Tasnim
