By: Kayhan Int’l
It is rather strange that peace talks between the legal government of Yemen represented by the popular Ansarallah Movement and the invaders’ backed faction of the fugitive from justice, the traitor Hadi Mansour, who has ganged up with Saudi Arabia and UAE, to destroy the country, were held abroad a UN-chartered ship off the coast of the besieged port city of Hodeidah in the Red Sea.
It is rather strange that peace talks between the legal government of Yemen represented by the popular Ansarallah Movement and the invaders’ backed faction of the fugitive from justice, the traitor Hadi Mansour, who has ganged up with Saudi Arabia and UAE, to destroy the country, were held abroad a UN-chartered ship off the coast of the besieged port city of Hodeidah in the Red Sea.
Red is the colour of blood, and as the invaders pounded towns and cities with bombs while talks for truce were in progress on the ship, indicated that death and destruction will continue to plague the poor people of Yemen.
However, stranger than the talks on board the ship for cessation of hostilities was the tweet of the UAE’s warmongering Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in response to Pope Francis’ disgust with the bloodshed in Yemen that 2019 would be the year of peace.
Anwar Qarqash, who has rejected all calls by world Muslim leaders, both political and spiritual, as well as Sunni and Shi’a, for ending the UAE’s role in the destruction of Yemen and the massacre of fellow Arabs, seems to have shed for a moment his innate wolfish image and tried to pose like a lamb while welcoming the apostolic visit to Abu Dhabi of the Leader of the Catholic sect of Christianity.
Strange developments indeed, but will they bring peace to Yemen as the war imposed by the US, Britain, and Israel, through Saudi Arabia and the UAE is about to complete its fourth year of bloodshed and enter the 5th without any prospects for peace!
Before leaving the Vatican for the Persian Gulf Sheikhdom Pope Francis said there are children who are hungry, thirsty, without medicine and on the verge of death, but this did not stop him from enjoying the luxurious hospitality extended by the UAE who besides entertaining him with the sumptuous foods and drinks will surely shower him with millions of dollars of gifts.
Wonder why he didn’t refuse the invitation for the three-day journey to the UAE in protest to the catastrophic situation in Yemen, when he knows without the least doubt that neither he will convert to Christianity the Emirati leaders who pay mere lip service to Islam, nor will his seemingly humanitarian appeals for peace will end the bloodshed in Yemen.
Now coming back to the peace talks aboard the ship on Sunday and Monday under the chairmanship of retired Dutch general Patrick Cammaert, as head of the UN mission in Yemen, no concrete result has emerged.
Although the meeting is seen as critical to building on the UN-brokered agreement reached in Stockholm last December, as long as the World Body avoids the denunciation of Saudi Arabia and the UAE as aggressors, no breakthrough is expected to emerge.
You cannot call the legal government as "Houthi rebels” or demand halt to any response in self-defence from them through missiles and drones to the unabated bloodshed, no peace is possible in Yemen.
Over the past four years, the conflict has led to mass displacement, food shortages and outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria across the country, as well as damage to healthcare and education infrastructure.
Even Human Rights Watch (HRW) cited the UAE’s role in the Saudi-led alliance, saying the aggressors have indiscriminately bombed homes, markets, and schools, impeded the delivery of humanitarian aid, and used widely banned cluster munitions.
In view of these undeniable facts, unless the UN recognizes these war crimes, any expectation of peace is a mere conjecture.
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