Intl. community can help end Saudi war on Yemen: Pundit
Press TV has conducted an interview with Ajamu Baraka, a human rights activist from Cali, Colombia, to ask for his insight on the international community’s inaction in dealing with the slaughter of Yemenis during six months of Saudi aggression.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Now, as you just mentioned, the death toll has increased to 5,000 civilians as the war enters its sixth month now. That’s a thousand civilians almost every single month that’s been killed. What do you make of it? What is the direction this is headed in?
Baraka: Unfortunately, the direction is continued loss of life in Yemen as long as the international community allows the Saudi government to continue this illegal activity in that country. The only way this can be resolved, this humanitarian crisis, this human rights crisis, is as a result of a vigorous intervention on the part of international community, but up to this moment that kind of intervention has not happened. In fact, some of those powerful members of the Security Council have, in fact, given the Saudi authorities a green light to carry on the carnage in Yemen.
Press TV: Right now, Mr. Baraka, up until now largely we’ve seen Saudi Arabia uses its air power to pound different locations across Yemen be at civilian areas or locations that it said with that of Ansarullah fighters. However, now we’ve seen they make ground incursions into Yemen, saying that this just stops those retaliatory attacks. Do you think that’s a prudent move?
Baraka: Well, what we’ve seen is escalation of the conflict on all sides. The blow-back that is occurring in Saudi society in terms of the ... attacks is a consequence of the further intervention on the part of the Saudis authorities in Yemen. So, again until there is a solution that’s brokered by the international community it is going to continue. But absolutely any solution being brokered by the international community, if the slaughter continues, I think we’re going to ... we should see more calls for a direct prosecution of Saudi authorities by the international criminal court.
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