Saudi military aggression against Yemen to backfire: Pundit
Press TV has conducted an interview with Massoud Shadjareh, head of the Islamic Human Rights Commission in London, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen that continues to take more lives.
What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: The Saudi war on Yemen continues and the international community stands idle. Your comments please.
Shadjareh: It really is utterly outrageous and shocking that in this day and age this sort of very clear war crimes against one of the poorest nations in the world is being allowed to continue with such a devastating effect. The reality is that thousands and thousands of people are dying and no one seems to care and everybody agrees, everybody knows, that there is going to be no military solution to this whole episode and there has to be a political solution and this aggression is totally outrageous and out of all the international norms and in reality is war crime.
It is the bombing of the civilian areas, the blockade which is affecting 90 percent of the foods and medicine, everything else which Yemen needs desperately to survive. It really is outrageous. I just cannot believe that in this day and age we are so apathetic towards lives of ordinary innocent people.
Press TV: Observers believe that the Saudi war is not only endangering the security of the region but also the security of Saudi Arabia. Do you see it in that light?
Shadjareh: Well I just cannot believe that you could so blindly go against the basic needs of the people and commit this sort of atrocity without some sort of effect on Saudi Arabia. Yemen is a neighboring country and those children and those people who are facing these atrocities are not going to forget what has happened to them and why and who is responsible.
So nevertheless, what happens eventually is that there is going to be consequences and cost for the Saudi regime both externally and internally, and I think people of Saudi Arabia itself also are going to turn around and say why is it that we go to war with such a poor nation and why is it that we do not support the Palestinians? Why is it that we do not have democracy here and we are going to, allegedly, promote democracy in places like Syria? I think the people of Saudi Arabia are beginning to wake up to this barbaric kingdom and the way that it is actually behaving not just towards the Arab nations around itself but also against its own citizens.
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