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UN should inquiry into Yemen's bloody conflict, Amnesty seeks

DUBAI: The United Nations should investigate violations of international humanitarian law committed by all sides in Yemen's civil war, Amnesty International said on Friday, six months after the start of a Saudi-led military campaign against Houthi forces.

More than 4,500 people have been killed in Yemen since March, according to U.N. figures, when Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Muslim Arab states launched a military campaign to drive back Houthi forces and restore a government which fled abroad.

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