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World powers complicit in Saudi war crimes in Yemen: Activist

Thursday, 17 March 2016 5:37 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 17 March 2016 5:35 AM ]

Yemeni children stand outside houses destroyed several months ago in a Saudi airstrike at a slum in the capital, Sana’a, March 12, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Kim Sharif, the director of Human Rights for Yemen, and Jihad Mouracadeh, a political analyst, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military aggression against Yemen.

Sharif says world powers are complicit in Saudi Arabia’s war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Yemen.

She says that apart from one or two members of the United Nations Security Council, all the other ones profit from the Yemen war.

The activist goes on to say that there is a “deliberate” plan and campaign using petrodollars to silence the world media on the war on Yemen.

She further says that the Yemeni people want to have an “independent sovereign state” that is self-governing.

“The people of Yemen have said it and voted it on their feet in September 2014 and they are continuing to stand on their feet and continue to say no more Riyadh interference with Yemeni affairs,” she says.

Mouracadeh, for his part, says Saudi Arabia is fighting on behalf of Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi against the Houthis, who the analyst says tried to overthrow Hadi’s government.

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