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West enabling Saudi Arabia to obliterate Yemen: Analyst

Friday, 09 December 2016 5:56 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 09 December 2016 5:56 PM ]

Yemenis gather around the rubble of a house near the communications tower hit by Saudi airstrikes in the port city of Hudaydah on November 27, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Saudi rocket and aerial attacks have reportedly killed seven civilians and injured 11 others in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada. The latest attacks came a day after US-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over its brutal war against Yemen. The rights organization said the US may be complicit in the “atrocities” perpetrated against Yemen by supplying arms and munitions to the Riyadh regime.

Catherine Shakdam, the director of the Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, believes the West has been helping the Saudis to "obliterate" Yemen since the very beginning of this war of aggression.

“Yemen has really suffered tremendously. The obliteration, the disappearing of an entire nation is happening before our eyes and nobody seems to care. All Western capitals seem to care about is making more money and securing more contracts and making billions of dollars on the blood of the innocent,” the analyst told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

She also stated the media is trying to rationalize this war narrative by saying that Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement is not legitimate, and spinning so many other lies and fabrication.

Shakdam further noted the Western governments are serving corporations and corporate interests rather than serving people, even though they might claim that they represent the people as they are elected.

She also said imperial powers neither want to see democracy rise up in the Middle East, nor do they want to see nations affirm their right to political self-determination and their right to rise against tyranny.

Saudi Arabia has been engaged in a deadly campaign against Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall the former Yemeni government.

The Saudi military aggression has left at least 11,400 civilians dead, according to the latest tally by a Yemeni monitoring group.

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