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The campaign is reportedly being spearheaded by the capital’s mayor, and follows UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s removal of the kingdom from the blacklist following his acceptance of "a proposal by Saudi Arabia that the United Nations and the Saudi-led coalition review jointly the cases and numbers" cited in the Children and Armed Conflict [CAAC] report.
The UN blacklisted Saudi Arabia in the report released earlier this month, saying the monarchy was responsible for 60 percent of the 785 deaths of children in Yemen last year.
"Don’t be afraid of Saudi Arabia because it is massacring the Yemenis not the UN... I’m not writing my name because Saudi Arabia kills me, and I don’t like the death," read the letter.
"My friends and I have agreed to collect money to fund the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund [UNICEF] because Saudi Arabia has said it would cut its aids to it," the child wrote.
Saudi Arabia launched its military aggression against Yemen on March 26, 2015, in a bid to reinstate resigned President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
More than 9,400 people have been martyred and at least 16,000 others injured so far as a result of the Saudi aggression.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
