Children’s Vigil Demands Halt to Saudi-led Aggression, Lifting Siege
Local Editor
A children’s vigil was organized in front of the United Nations [UN] headquarters in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a on Tuesday to demand an end to the Saudi-led aggression and siege on Yemen.
The children participating in the vigil denounced the aggression’s bombing of infrastructures including schools, universities and technical institutes, and hindering of education.
The participants appealed to the UN, UNICEF and all organizations working in the childhood field to assume their ethical responsibility towards the genocidal war and siege being inflicted upon the Yemeni people, including children.
They called on the UN organizations to put pressure on the Saudi-led coalition countries to stop targeting schools and to respect the rights of the children in education and life.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March 26.
The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to more than 2,300 with more than 4,000 other civilians wounded in the fighting in the country that has raged for more than a year now, according to the UN recently last month [September]. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.
According to the UN Children’s Fund, over 500 children have been among the fatalities.
The US-led Saudi aggression began in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
