Saudis failing in their act of aggression against Yemen: Activist

Press TV has interviewed Hussain al-Bukhaiti, an activist and political commentator in Sana’a, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military aggression against Yemen.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Now we are looking at over 7,000 people having been killed in Yemen since March. Now we have seen recently terrorist attacks that took place in France and the outcry and outrage and of course rightly so when any civilian life is lost in terrorist attacks. What do you make of that, on the one hand we are talking about over 7,000 people have been killed in your country and basically no attention is given to that?  

Bukhaiti: Of course this is what the international community does. Muslim life and Arab life is nothing for them and we have seen this before not only in Yemen, we have seen in Syria and Iraq, hundreds of thousands have been killed by ISIS (Daesh) and al-Qaeda and extremists and Takfiris but we have seen when the previous attack on Paris on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, we have seen a total outcry from the entire international community.

The same happened these last two days because the thing that they are making money from this war against Yemen, as well in Syria and we know that France in the last three months they have about 12 billion dollars in weapons agreement with the [Persian] Gulf states, so I do not think this attack in France is going to affect this weapons sales to Saudis but I am sure that the French, they are going to use it against immigration, they are going to use it to oppress Muslims in France and this is what has been happening in the international community and their behavior towards the Middle East and Muslim countries.

Press TV: Well do you think that is part of the problem in general that it appears, as you have said, that lives of some people seem to be less valuable, that in your country civilians could be killed now since the end of March, we are looking at, we are November right now and no attention at all is paid to it.

Then what needs to be done if this is the case and the so-called international community is dominant in the United Nations as for the Security Council, then where do Muslim countries, where do countries or people like yourself coming out of Yemen, which entity should you turn to in order to help you?  

Bukhaiti: I think we have to unite with the countries to fight terrorists ourselves. We have to unite with Iran, with Syria, with any country that is really fighting Daesh and ISIS and al-Qaeda not like the fight that the US is conducting in Syria where they attack Daesh in some area and then they drop some weapons in another area.

So we have to stand to ourselves. For example in Yemen we have seen the Yemeni army and Ansarullah, the Houthi Popular Committees are targeting the Saudi border and they are getting deeper inside the Saudi territory and as well to fight mercenaries in Yemen and we have seen as well the Syrian army is advancing in many areas and I think this is the only way that we can fight for ourselves because this war will continue.

And as you mentioned there was today an attack on a mosque, killing one person and just let me add a few attacks happened in the last two days. They targeted today a market in ... Mocha, killing and injuring several people and as well they have kidnapped today 25 Yemeni fishermen and they have taken their boat toward Jizan and the day before they targeted the fish market in al-Mocha, killing seven people and two weeks before they have killed over 70 Yemeni fishermen in one island in the coast of Hudaydah.  

So they have been bombing all the coastline from Hudaydah toward Bab al-Mandab. They want to make it hard for people to live there. They want that area to become like the north of Sa’ada and Hajjah so they can begin their land invasion but still they have been failing for the last six month and as we have heard today the Yemeni army has launched an anti-ship missile and as they said this ship, I think Saudi ship was destroyed in this attack.  

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