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Saudi Arabia seeks total control of Yemen: Activist

Monday, 21 November 2016 6:20 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 21 November 2016 6:23 PM ]

Yemenis look at the damage following Saudi airstrikes on October 27, 2016 in Khamis Bani Saad district in al-Mahwit governorate. (Photo by AFP)

Saudi Arabia has violated a recent 48-hour ceasefire in Yemen over 100 times since it went into effect on Saturday. The truce was declared by Riyadh itself following a request from Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.

Kim Sharif, director of Human Rights for Yemen, says Saudi Arabia seeks “total control” of Yemen in order to exploit the country’s national resources and to enslave its people.

“There was never any specific goal other than wanting to control Yemen and colonize it as they were doing it by proxy in the past, proxy regimes that they were placing in governance and controlling them through Riyadh.” the activist told Press TV.

She also stated the “evil powers” who are aiding and abetting Saudi Arabia in its crimes against Yemen, are the ones who ought to be held ultimately responsible for the carnage and mayhem that are taking place in the impoverished Arab country.

The activist further noted the United States is playing a “diabolical game” in Yemen, adding that it is clearly behind this war by "providing logistics, intelligence and weapons to Saudi Arabia."

“The US is guilty and when it sees noises from its own backyard coming out complaining about holocaust in Yemen, the US regime appears to play games by the UN and proposes some kind of a cessation of hostility on a temporary basis as they had done the last 48 hours which is nonsense because they know the Saudis will never comply” she said.

Saudi Arabia has been leading an offensive against Yemen since March 2015. The war has left at least 11,400 civilians dead, according to a latest tally by a Yemeni monitoring group.

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