Year Ends But No End In Sight For Sufferings Of Yemeni People

By: Kayhan Int’l 

The year 2018 has come to its end, and tomorrow will be the start of the new Gregorian calendar year, but there is no end in sight for the wars and crises plaguing the world, mainly because of the devilish designs of the US and its clients.

In France the Yellow Jacket Movement continues to rock Paris and other cities, while there is uneasiness in most European countries. 

On the other side of the world, the US seems to be badly trapped in the wave of migration on its southern borders, with the intransigent Donald Trump (grandson of a German migrant), locked in a deadly duel with the Senate to the extent of ‘government shutdown’ because of the rejection of his absurd demand for financing the erection of a long apartheid wall on the frontier with Mexico.

The most catastrophic crisis, however, is the situation of Yemen, a country of 28 million, of whom 22 million are facing famine and starvation, because of the war imposed upon them by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, at the behest of the US.

A tentative peace was recently reached in Sweden, following UN mediation between the legal Ansarallah-led government in Sana’a and the militias of the south which are backed by the invaders.

The first step in the peace process calls for demilitarization of the strategic Red Sea port of Hodeidah, a plan to which the Ansarallah have given approval and are already in the process of withdrawing their forces, in order to enable the UN to monitor import-export activities that are vital to the survival of the whole nation of Yemen which is in dire need of urgent food supplies and medicines.

Unfortunately, the Saudi-UAE invaders are yet to fulfill their commitments to the peace process by withdrawing their forces from the vicinity of Hodeidah, stopping military activities, ceasing bombardment of Yemen, and lifting their sea and air blockade of the country, including the opening to international relief aid of the Sana’a airport. 

The result has been continuation of the stalemate with no end to the sufferings of the people of Yemen, while the Saudis and Emiratis, steeped in luxuries and unbothered of the catastrophe facing fellow Arab Muslims in Yemen, use poor mercenaries from as far as Darfur in Africa and Colombia in South America to either die on the battlefields of Yemen or kill the Yemeni people.

It is obvious that the invaders have already lost despite their massive military power. Having failed to reach their sinister goals through war they had schemed to take control of Hodeidah through so-called peace talks, but thanks to the vigilance of the people of Yemen, they have failed yet again.

There was no agreement in Sweden on handing over of Hodeidah to the invaders or their militias of the southern tribesmen. The Ansarallah had only said that the UN will be allowed supervision of activities at the port while the Yemeni armed forces will evacuate the city in order to facilitate such operations.
It means, the moment the Yemeni forces see that the clauses of the peace talks are violated by the southern militias and their Saudi-Emirati overlords, the Ansarallah will not hesitate to rally to the defence of the people of Hodeidah.

Thus, the onus is now on the UN to force the invaders and their proxy militias to respect the peace. If the World Body is really interested in peace, it should not hesitate to declare both Riyadh and Abu Dhabi as aggressors and demand complete end to military operations, in order to allow the people of Yemen to get together to resolve the crisis in a democratic manner, without any outside interference.