Yemenis Rally in Front of UN Office, Urging World Body to Take Action against Saudi Aggression
Local Editor
Yemenis held a rally in front of the United Nations [UN] office in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a on Sunday to slam the ongoing US-led Saudi military aggression against their country.
Several hundred Yemenis, including rights activists and the representatives of non-governmental organizations, gathered in front of the UN’s office in Sana’a, urging the world body to take serious action to put an end to the US-led Saudi aggression.
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 United Nations [UN].
"We have congregated near the UN office to call for an end to genocidal war waged by Saudi Arabia...We want to say that the news about Saudi atrocities are either being blocked or fabricated by media in order to mislead the international community and silence the voice of truth," one of the protesters said.
The protesters carried carried banners and chanted anti-Saudi slogans.
"Saudi Arabia has killed Yemeni women and children and destroyed public and private properties and the country’s infrastructures. They systematically kill Yemenis in wedding ceremonies, at mosques and even at markets", another protestor said.
Yemen has been under Saudi military strikes on a daily basis since March 26, in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, an ally of Riyadh.
Earlier this month in October, Amnesty International called on the international community to suspend the transfer of weapons and ammunitions to Saudi Arabia after the emergence of clear evidence that the kingdom is committing war crimes in Yemen.
The London-based rights group released a statement on October 7, saying that "damning" evidence of war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia, which is armed by such countries as the US, underlines the pressing need for an independent and effective investigation into the kingdom’s human rights violations in the impoverished neighboring country.
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 this month [September]. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.
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.
