International inaction helping Riyadh get away with crimes: Activist
The international community has failed the people of Yemen, says an activist, adding that its inaction is helping Saudi Arabia get away with its crimes.
“We have seen that any time that Ansarullah the Houthis or Yemeni army … launch a ballistic missile or a drone attack on any military target of the Saudi-backed forces either in Yemen or in Saudi Arabia … the international community [cries] out loud about this, even though they have not targeted civilians at any point and this shows you how biased the international community [is] and we remember that the United Nations has taken the Saudi name from a list for killing children twice. They have appointed the Saudi [Arabia] to lead the Human Rights Council in Geneva and to be a member during the war on Yemen,” Hussain al-Bukhaiti told Press TV in an interview on Monday.
“This shows you that the Saudi money … is used to help Saudis and [the] United Arab Emirates … get away [with] killing hundreds of thousands of Yemeni civilians, having a blockade [in place] that has destroyed all … Yemeni infrastructure. [Despite the fact that] Millions of Yemeni children are starving to death, 17 million are in need of urgent humanitarian aid … still we are seeing the United Nations has not done anything ... So all this acting from the United Nations is actually to help the Saudis to cover their crimes and all that is fully backed by the United Kingdom and the United States,” he added.
More than a dozen civilians, most of them schoolchildren, have been killed in the latest round of airstrikes by Saudi warplanes on residential areas in Yemen's west-central province of Sana'a and the southwestern province of Ta'izz.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
According to a report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, the Saudi-led war has so far claimed the lives of about 56,000 Yemenis.
The war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.
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