Washington working to hold Houthis accountable for their crimes in Yemen
The world marked Human Rights Day on December 13.
The day has come to bring to light
the violations the Iran-backed Houthi militia keeps committing against the
Yemeni people in the areas it controls in Yemen.
These violations include killing,
stealing, torture and repression.
Washington was quick to support
possible resolutions by the United Nations Security Council to hold the Houthis
accountable for the crimes they commit against the Yemeni people.
These crimes have been committed in
the span of the seven years in which the Yemeni crisis has been raging on.
American invitation
US Special Envoy to Yemen, Tim
Lenderking, said the US administration would support any project by the UN to
hold the Houthis accountable for their crimes in Yemen.
Yemeni families, he added, deserve
to have a better future, one that does not have wars.
Washington has, meanwhile, called
for establishing a new mandate for the UN to enhance accountability in Yemen
and punish parties that commit abuses against Yemeni civilians.
Washington and the Houthis locked
horns in late November this year after the Iran-backed militia raided the US
embassy in Yemeni capital, Sana'a, looted its contents and took some of the
embassy's workers hostage.
This caused the American
administration to intensify its calls for the militia to urgently release these
embassy employees.
However, the Houthis countered by
acting in their customary intransigence, promoting the US to enlist help from
some regional players to convince the Houthis to let the employees go.
This is not the first time the US
and the UN back a project to punish the Houthis for their crimes in Yemen.
