U.N. Seeks Inquiry Into Deadly Assault on Migrant Boat Near Yemen
The attack on the boat, believed to be carrying 145 people leaving Yemen, was among the most horrific episodes of deadly violence on asylum seekers there since Saudi Arabia
and its allies entered the country’s civil war and began an air campaign against the Houthi rebels two years ago.
Yemen said that We call on all parties to the conflict to make proper inquiries to ensure accountability and to prevent this from happening again.
By RICK GLADSTONEMARCH 20, 2017
The United Nations on Monday called for an inquiry into an aerial assault on a boat
of migrants last week off Yemen’s Red Sea coast that left at least 42 people dead.
Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, described the assault as an "unwarranted attack on helpless civilians fleeing violence
and conflict" in a statement from the refugee agency’s Geneva headquarters.
Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, has been consumed by war since March 2015 when Saudi Arabia
and its partners began bombarding the Houthis, who had seized parts of the country including the capital, Sana, from the government.
The captain, who was fatally wounded, was able to pilot the boat to Al Hudaydah, where rescue workers stored the dead in fish coolers
because hospitals had no room, the head of port security said.
