World tight-lipped on Saudi war crimes in Yemen: Pundit
Press TV has interviewed Ali al-Ahmed, the director of the Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs, and Frederick Peterson, the US congressional defense policy adviser, both from Washington, to discuss the silence of the international community in the face of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen due to the Saudi aggression.
Al-Ahmad thinks the United Nations and the United States do not pressure Saudi Arabia to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Yemen. He believes the international community has little appreciation for the Yemeni people.
The International Criminal Court has not initiated an inquiry into the war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia against the Yemeni people, he says, adding the UN Human Rights Council and the office of the Human Rights Commissioner did not make a single statement on the situation in the poorest Arab nation in the Persian Gulf.
He argues the Western states do not pay attention to the Yemeni people's starvation and deprivation of basic needs such as water.
Not only the Americans but also the British and some other Western states support the Saudi aggression against Yemen in terms of logistics and military assistance, the political commentator maintains.
For his part, Peterson believes what is going on in Yemen is a “civil war” between different sects. He adds the reason behind international inaction to end the catastrophe in Yemen is that the situation in the impoverished country is “a very murky and multiple-dimensioned conflict that almost defies solution.”
The policy advisor also warns that the consequences of the conflict in Yemen may spill over to neighboring countries.
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