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UN siding with S Arabia in war on Yemen: Analyst

Tuesday, 11 October 2016 3:25 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 3:29 PM ]

Yemenis attend the funeral of members of the same family on October 8, 2016 a day after they were killed by a Saudi airstrike that hit their house in Bajil in the western province of Houdieda. (AFP photo)

The United Nations is clearly on the side of Riyadh on Saudi Arabia's ongoing aggression against Yemen, Hussain al-Bukhaiti, an activist and political commentator tells Press TV’s Top 5.

“The UN has not done anything to do investigation in Yemen,” because the US, Britain and Saudi Arabia have been busy to hinder any inquiry into Saudi crimes in Yemen, Bukhaiti said on Tuesday.

He also said, the UN is expected to investigate into the whole crimes committed by Saudi Arabia since the beginning of their aggression against Yemen not only Saturday's crime when a Saudi airstrike on a funeral ceremony in capital Sana’a left over 140 Yemenis dead and 534 others wounded.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, stressed that a fatal airstrike on a funeral ceremony indicates that violations have continued without repercussions.

Bukhaiti added that the 19 months of blockade in Yemen has caused several difficulties for the Yemeni people, he said, “the United Nations is part of the blockade” thus, the international community does not allow other nations like Iran to send humanitarian aid to Yemen.

He further stated that it was not the first time that Iranians’ request to dispatch relief aid to Yemen was refused by the United Nations and Saudi Arabia threatened to sink Iran’s aid ship before reaching Yemen.

On Monday, Iran urged the United Nations to adopt expeditious mechanisms aimed at facilitating the shipment of Iranian humanitarian aid to war-torn Yemen.

Since March 2015, the Riyadh regime has begun its deadly campaign to crush the Yemeni Houthi Ansarullah movement and their allies and to bring back to power the former Yemeni government, a close ally of the Saudi kingdom. The Saudi offensive has so far left more than 10,000 Yemenis dead.

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