Saudi waging scorched earth war on Yemen: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Saeed Shahabi, political analyst in London, to discuss the deadly Saudi aggression against Yemeni people.

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: On numerous occasions, we have seen the Saudis deliberately targeting residential areas, schools and now we have learned that they have also targeted an MSF (Doctors Without Borders) hospital, targeting a hospital that belongs to an international body. Talk to us about how far the Saudis are willing to go in their deadly campaign against the people of Yemen?

Shahabi: I think the Saudis are adopting the policy of “scorched earth” whereby they are ready to burn the earth, the ground, the city, the town, the country and whoever lives on it. They do not have any sanctity for the human life. This is why they are attacking days and nights with their bombers all over the place in Yemen. This is not the morality of a Muslim or a human being. Now they are to attack mostly people who are holding marriage ceremony or people who are taking their dead to a graveyard; to attack people who are sleeping. Whole families have been obliterated. These acts are pure evil. No one other than the Saudis is capable of doing such massive crimes. So the attack on the hospital is yet another war crime that I hope one day the international community will hold the Saudis to account for.

Press TV: Mr. Shahabi we have come to learn that humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Yemen as we speak. Now the silence of the international community is further exacerbating the dire humanitarian conditions on the ground for the people of Yemen, Isn’t it?

Shahabi: My friend the crime that is being committed in Yemen is beyond belief. I do not understand why for example Sudan with common 6,000 troops to go and kill fellow Muslims. What have the Yemenis done to the Sudanese? Why cannot Sudan defend its own territories and stop it being split into two while sending their troops to Yemen?  

I mean the human crisis in Yemen, the famine, the lack of medicine, the numerous casualties on daily basis, the lack of attention by the United Nations, relief agencies; the attack by air, the sea and air blockade on Yemen, Sana’a, the daily attacks on Sa’ada, these are all war crimes. Every act of the regime is an act of a crime against humanity of the Saudi regime and its allies.

So I think the whole world will have to account for the lack of concern for the value of the human life. So I do not know, I really, I am baffled by the lack of humanism in this world today and I cannot understand why the United Nations Security Council is just keeping quite about the Saudi aggression on Yemen.

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