As the Southern Transitional Council (STC) continues its unilateral military escalation, reports have emerged of hundreds of violations it has committed in Hadhramaut.
The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms (YNRF) documented 614 violations in the governorate between December 2 and 25. It spoke of a "systematic" targeting of civilians and social infrastructure that has displaced some 5,000 families.
In a report published on Monday, YNRF said that the "extent of the violations reflects a systematic pattern of practices that cannot be described as incidental. Rather, they are part of a methodical policy that threatens social peace and undermines the rule of law in one of Yemen's most relatively stable governorates."
The violations include murder, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances and displacement, and looting of private and public property. It documented the killing of 35 members of the army and 12 civilians, and the injury of 56 others, in Hadhramaut.
The network reported that the STC violations are a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and commitments that have been made in Yemen. Some of the violations can also amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
It demanded clear international condemnation of the violations in Hadhramaut, urging an immediate and unconditional end to them.