UN rights chief demands international probe of Yemen violations

[WorldNews]

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The United Nations called on Thursday for the creation of an independent international body to investigate an array of serious violations in war-torn Yemen. In a new report, the UN laid out a long line of allegations of grave human rights abuses by all sides in Yemen's bloody conflict, which has left nearly 4,000 civilians dead. "Civilians in Yemen have suffered unbearably over the years from the effects of a number of simultaneous and overlapping armed conflicts," UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement.

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