Nearly the whole world, seemingly paid off by Saudi money, is waging war against Yemen.
How
else can one explain the silence that surrounds the Saudi bombing
campaign that will lead to devastating starvation in Yemen and will turn
that country into a second, bigger Gaza?
The
sycophantic UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon kicked out the UN envoy to
Yemen, Jamal Benomar, because Benomar did not endorse the Saudi bombing
campaign. He will be replaced with the Saudi choice Ismail Ould Cheikh
Ahmad from Mauritania:
Previously, in Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad was “an embarrassment,”
as multiple UN sources put it to Inner City Press. But, hey, whatever
the Saudis want.
A
UN Security Council resolution against the Yemeni people practically
endorsed the Saudi blockade, bombing and starvation campaign by 14 to 0.
Russia was criticized for only abstaining but not vetoing the
resolution. I can see two reasons for the Russian vote. For one Russia
may believe that the Saudi campaign will, in the end, severely hurt
Saudi Arabia which would be to Russia's advantage. It may also have not
vetoed because China, for whatever reason, endorsed the resolution.
China and Russia prefer to veto together to avert to be singled out and
blamed.
The
Saudis have bombed not only refugee camps and food depots in Yemen but
also the telecommunication networks, news stations and electricity
networks. Sanaa has been without electricity for over 60 hours now. On
Monday the soccer stadiums in Ibb, Aden, and Sanaa were bombed.
Yesterday 16 gas stations, with long lines of cars waiting for fuel,
were bombed in one case leaving at least 17 people dead and 50 wounded.
Between
March 26 and April 11 the Saudis bombed Yemen over 1,200 times.
According to an earlier account by a Yemeni army spokesperson 2,571 were
killed of which 381 were children and 455 women. 1,200 official
institution and 72 schools were destroyed. In the last 24 hours another
56 civilians were killed.
Fuel
prices have increased by 600%, bread by at least 300%. Cooking gas is
running out and without fuel or electricity water pumps can not run.
People will starve but for lack of reporting abilities in the country no
one will notice.
While the Saudis claim to bomb the Houthis but destroy Yemeni infrastructure Al Qaeda took full control over the harbor city al-Mukalla and slaughtered 15 Yemeni soldiers in Shabwa province in south Yemen. The Yemeni 2nd brigade, run by a Saudi stooge, gave up
its weapons to AlQaeda. The Pakistanis were smart enough to reject the
Saudi request for Pakistani foot soldiers to die in Yemen. The Saudi
plan B is now to hire
"local forces" to do their dirty bidding which means that the Saudis
will, like in Syria, finance and support Al Qaeda's takeover of that
country. Pakistan should send the Taliban to teach the Saudi how religious lunatics fight.
The U.S. is helping the Saudis not only with weapons and ammunition. At least 20 U.S. officers were send to a joint headquarter in Riyadh and are vetting the Saudi targeting lists.
Nobody
in Washington or elsewhere believes that the Saudi campaign will solve
anything in Yemen. But why then endorse and support it and the all the
suffering it creates?
http://www.moonofalabama.org
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41592.htm
Monday, April 20, 2015
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