UN passive on stopping Saudi war on Yemen: Activist

Press TV has conducted an interview with Hussain al-Bukhaiti, activist and political commentator, on the death and destruction in Yemen that has been caused by the Saudi airstrikes.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: The numbers here are extremely staggering as 8,300 people killed, 16,000 at least injured out of them 2,200 children, what do you make of the numbers, for so long?

Bukhaiti: I mean if we are in Syria, the war has been raging on Yemen for over 300 days. So, if the average that killed every day is 30 civilians according to the latest report. And because the international community is still keeping a blind eye to the war in Yemen, the Saudis keep targeting civilians across Yemen. And it’s not only we have civilians’ loss of life in Yemen, we have as well the infrastructure that almost destroyed by the Saudi war planes.

Let me just take a few seconds of your time, just to mention that about 125 chicken farms were destroyed, seven wheat silos, 42 sport facilities, 190 factories and 59 historic sites and 119 tourist facilities and over 300 fuel stations and fuel tanks and markets and shops and 615 mosques were damaged or destroyed by the Saudis.

And this is just a fraction of latest data released by some Yemeni organizations about the effect on Yemen’s infrastructure by the Saudi strikes. And till this day, the United Nations hasn’t take a serious step either to condemn the Saudi directly or to ask the Saudi to stop the war in Yemen. And what we’re seeing just increase of Saudi strikes across Yemen.

Press TV: Right now, Mr. Bukhaiti, as we’ve been discussing you in Press TV before as well many are calling the current situation in Yemen as the forgotten war, how many more Yemenis, what kind of a number will there have to be of the dead, of the injured, of the hospitals attacked before the international community takes step?

Bukhaiti: I mean, we don’t know exactly what will make the United Nations and the international community move to stop this aggression against Yemen. And we all remember that the head of the International Red Cross in his visit to Saada about three to four months ago, he said that Yemen has become in four months like Syria in four years.

Just imagine the destruction that has been caused by the Saudis. And I think that as long as countries like the US, UK and France, which they control the international community and they’re in control of the UN Security Council, they are making billions of dollars in profit from this war against Yemen.

And we’ve seen that in the last 300 days of the war in Yemen, the Saudi has made billions of dollars in arms deals with France, UK and the United States. So, this is not going to stop, I think, it is only going to take the Yemeni people to unite and to fight side by side against this aggression and we have to hit the Saudis hard inside their land and that we can threaten the Saudi regime.

And I think that’s the only thing that will make the United States and other countries who are profiting from this war, they might change their mind or they might at least have pressure on the Saudis.

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