Mahmoud Mohamed-Tripoli

The United Arab Emirates is trying to improve its image before the international community and international human rights organizations at the United Nations in Geneva on the sidelines of the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council, following accusations of grave violations in countries such as Libya and Yemen.

The UAE Mission to the United Nations in Geneva last Wednesday held a seminar in partnership with the Geneva Center for Human Rights and Global Dialogue on "Promoting Access to Justice for Children in the UAE".

The UAE's permanent ambassador to the United Nations, Obaid Salem Al Zaabi, tried to convince the international system and human rights organizations present at the symposium that his country's authorities are seeking to protect children to achieve justice, but things have turned contrary to what the ambassador wanted.

Interventions followed the speech of the UAE Ambassador to the attendees to the fact that the UAE is funding the wars that caused the killing and displacement of thousands of civilian children, according to systematic campaigns in Yemen, Libya and Sudan.

The UAE's ambassador withdrew from the session after failing to improve his country's negative image before the international community because of its continued support for authoritarian regimes, its involvement in supporting coups with weapons, killing civilians, and igniting wars and conflicts in Arab countries.

Victims of shelling of Hifter forces in the southern city of Murzuq (Al Jazeera-archive)

Children killing
The latest accusations against Abu Dhabi were issued by the head of the Libyan Tabawi Congress party, Issa Abdul Majeed, who said the UAE was involved in the killing of thousands in his country, including women and children, by participating in supporting retired Major General Khalifa Hifter to wage war against the government of national reconciliation in Tripoli. The Tabawi Congress Party, founded in 2016, aims to defend the Tabu minority in southern Libya.

"I am surprised by this policy in the UAE's interest in its children," Abdul Majeed said in his speech at the UN headquarters in Geneva. "In return, it is working to kill children in countries such as Yemen, and finally recruited children in Sudan who were transferred from Omdurman airport to Al-Khrouba airport in eastern Libya for use in fighting the government of reconciliation. .

Abdul Majeed asked the UAE ambassador to answer the question "Why held this symposium to care for children and women in the UAE, which is leading wars to children in other countries, including the killing of more than 48 people, including 19 children in the city of Murzuq" southwestern Libya, a The incident last month.

Abdul Majeed accused UAE to kill Libyan children by arming Hifter's forces

American missiles
"After the massacre, we collected the remnants of the IJM-88 rockets that the city was bombed, and we confirmed from an American side through the sequence number on each missile that these missiles are American-made," Abdul Majeed said in a speech before the Human Rights Council, which is currently meeting in Geneva. It was handed over to the UAE by Texas Instruments in September 2015. ”

The President of the Tabawi Congress that representatives of the UAE were at the hearing of speakers at the Human Rights Council, and these representatives withdrew from the session after the UAE accused of genocide in the cities of Murzuq, Tripoli and Benghazi, and also to participate in supporting Khalifa Hifter with weapons and ammunition, and the establishment of UAE operating rooms in the cities Jafra, Ras Lanuf and Khadem Air Base near Al-Marg area in eastern Libya.

Abdul Majeed vowed in a statement to Al Jazeera Net UAE authorities to prosecute them in America, and in the International Criminal Court and in all international forums for what he said were the massacres of war committed in Libya.

Correcting concepts
The head of the Libyan Democratic Foundation for Human Rights, Imad Eddin Al-Muntaser, said participation in these international forums (referring to the Human Rights Council) "contributes to correcting the concepts published by the UAE diplomatic machine and reveals the destructive and inhuman role the UAE plays in its areas of influence."

"This contribution to the interventions at the Human Rights Council in Geneva makes international institutions participating in the meetings interested in these issues, and gives them a high priority in their programs to combat humanitarian violations and war crimes by the UAE," said the Libyan human rights activist.

Al-Muntasir stressed in a statement to Al Jazeera Net the need to correct the vision, and give priority to pressure on the official international bodies to pursue Hifter and his supporters in a collective manner.

On the legal steps that can be implemented by the Government of Accord in light of these accusations, said the President of the Foundation for Democracy for Human Rights "must prepare a formal note to ask the Security Council's sanctions committee to include Hifter and the process of dignity on the list of international sanctions, and then send a memorandum to the International Criminal Court to request an arrest warrant Hifter. "

Al-Muntasser said the government of al-Wefaq should address the US Justice Department to expedite the investigation demanded by members of the US House of Representatives and Senators against Hifter, adding that the Tripoli government should make the prosecution of Hifter internationally a condition for its participation in any upcoming international conference or meeting.