VICTIMS of the Saudi-led war on Yemen submitted a claim to the International Criminal Court (ICC) today asking new chief prosecutor Karim AA Khan to open war-crime investigations.

Evidence has been submitted by survivors and families of the deceased relating to three well-documented events.

They include an August 2018 attack on a school bus in which 34 people were killed, most of them children; a 2016 missile attack on a funeral that killed 110 people; and the torture and murder of civilians in Aden, southern Yemen by Colombian mercenaries under the command of a private US company contracted to the United Arab Emirates.

The application has been filed on behalf of hundreds of claimants by their legal team, Guernica 37.

Lead counsel Toby Cadman said: “Three signatories to the Rome Statute [the treaty that established the ICC] — Jordan, Senegal, and the Maldives — were members of the Saudi-led coalition at the time of both the school-bus and funeral attacks. Similarly, citizens of another ICC member, Colombia, were combatants in the war at the same time.

“The ICC can and must use its clear jurisdiction to investigate these undeniable and evidenced crimes.”