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UN on the side of Saudi Arabia over Yemen: Commentator

A Yemeni man is seen amid the ruins of buildings destroyed in a Saudi airstrike in the capital, Sana’a, September 10, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Hussain al-Bukhaiti, an activist and political commentator in Sana’a, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military aggression against Yemen.

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: When we come to put the UN under microscope here, it is becoming very apparent that there are many targets that Saudi has bombed that are civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, orphanages, schools. Why isn’t the UN becoming more proactive, warning Saudi Arabia not to at least target these institutions or else it will suffer some kind of a consequence?

Bukhaiti: I think that the UN is useless when it comes to the Yemen crisis. The Saudi has bombed a UN refugee camp at the beginning of this war campaign against Yemen and the Saudis have used in late Eid or after Ramadan, they have used the ceasefire to invade Aden side by side with the United Arab Emirates and still the UN has not said anything.

We have seen many reports from human rights, Amnesty International, of the mass use of cluster bombs in Yemen especially in the province of Sa’ada and Hajjah on a daily basis. There is  airstrikes using these weapons, white phosphoric bombs but still what the UN has done last week, they have appointed the Saudi representative at the UN to head the UN human rights panel and, to me, this is a joke that one country that abuses human rights inside Saudi and as well outside the Saudi, one country that is only good in killing people and destroying countries like Iraq, Syria and Libya and they cannot even organize Hajj and we are seeing every year they are hundreds if not thousands of people killed and injured because of their lack of... to organize those events.

So, it is clear that the UN is on the side of Saudi, the UN is on the side of money, like the US and France and United Kingdom and most of European countries. They do not bother about Yemeni lives. There is a blockade, a media blockade, sea blockade, land blockade and air blockade against Yemen and this is happening under the nose of the international community.


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