Inaction on Saudi aggression shows 'int'l community' conscience dead: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ibrahim Mousawi, a political commentator, in Beirut, after the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said evidence shows Saudi Arabia has been targeting neighboring Yemen with internationally banned cluster bombs and "harming civilians." 

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Here we have an illegal war that is being waged and on top of that we have internationally banned cluster munitions, the second sighting at this point, this coming from Human Rights Watch. What is your reaction when you heard about this?

Mousawi: Well, to tell you the truth, the only thing that comes to my mind at first is the double standards, the inconsistency and the lack of integrity in the so-called international community, in the world at all. You are talking about dead conscience. Does the world have a conscience in any way or another?

The Saudis have been violating the international laws. The Saudis have been using the banned weapons, they are using prohibited weapons against the civilians in Yemen, they are destroying the infrastructure, and they are destroying all facilities of life - hospitals, schools. Ever since this aggression started, now it is about three months, this is continuing and we have not heard anything effective from the so-called international community.

I could tell you simply that it is dead, the world community is dead, the world human conscience is dead because if it is not, we should have seen any kind of effective measures, anything of concrete tangible solutions for the violations. This only reminds me of the lack of the integrity of the international community when it comes to Israel. Israel has this huge influential lobby, Zionism has this influential lobby in the United States, in the United Nations, many places in the world that it forces them to bow down and not to chase Israel in the international criminal law.  

The same thing applies to Saudi Arabia where they bribe them, they buy them - I do not know what you want to call it - otherwise we should have seen something, we should have heard something that would bring the Saudis to respect the international law and to respect the lives of the human beings in Yemen.  

Press TV: And what about the country that sold them these cluster munitions, the United States being a major supplier of it to Saudi Arabia?

Mousawi: It is not only the United States as a main supplier for this. You can talk about all the airports and all the thoroughfares where they go through the airports and the different ports where they go in order to be received by Saudi Arabia or by all the forces or governments that use them against the law.  

First of all, it should not be manufactures in the first place. This is against the human life; this is against human respect for all kinds of life. When you talk about the United States, you talk about the number one state that supports Saudi Arabia as much as it supports Israel and it is no surprise at all for us that they do not do anything, they always go unpunished, they always go un-sued.

Just let’s remember about this big weapon of mass deception that has been used by the United States when it came to Iraq 2003. They said there was weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that they used the media, the propaganda weapons of mass deception in order to deceive the people all around the world and we ended up within Iraq with millions of people who are displaced, killed or wounded in Iraq and the United States is there preaching on human rights and preaching on democracy and preaching on the safety of the civilians.

AHK/HMV

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