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Saudi to continue Yemen war with US, UK support: Activist

Saturday, 29 October 2016 3:36 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 29 October 2016 3:38 PM ]

A picture taken on October 8, 2016 shows a general view of the destruction following Saudi airstrikes on a building in the capital Sana’a. (Photo by AFP)

Saudi Arabia has been engaged in a deadly campaign against Yemen since March 2015. The war has done incredible harm both to the civilian population in the country as well as its critical infrastructure.

Saudi Arabia will continue its military aggression against Yemen as long as it gets support from the United States and Britain, says an activist and political commentator.

“They are the ones who are funding, and they are the ones who have given the Saudis the green light to commit their crimes in Yemen because if the war continues in Yemen, this means that the United States and Britain will continue selling their weapons to the Saudis,” Hussain al-Bukhaiti told Press TV in an interview on Saturday.

He also mentioned there is no “international investigation” into Saudi Arabia’s crimes in Yemen which is the reason why it continues its offensive against the impoverished Arab country.

The activist went on to say that both the United States and Britain are “directly involved” in the war on Yemen because of their arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

However, he said, Britain has played a “dirty role” by supporting Saudi Arabia’s membership at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and blocking two previous investigations into Riyadh’s war crimes in Yemen.

Pointing to Saudi Arabia’s accusation of Yemeni ballistic missile being fired at Mecca, Bukhaiti noted the Saudis are seeking to gather more support from Islamic countries by this allegation.

“So they want to make it as a war to defend Mecca and if the Saudis have reached this point, this means that they are really weak and they are on the brink of either to stop this war or to collapse but it will depend on how long they will get a green light from the US to continue the war on Yemen,” he stated.

Saudi Arabia’s offensive was launched in an attempt to crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement and its allies and reinstate the former Yemeni government.

The United Nations puts the death toll from the military aggression at about 10,000.

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