Analyst:

US Secretly Supporting Saudi-Led War against Yemen

Rasa - A prominent analyst disclosed that Washington is secretly supporting the Saudi-led war against Yemen without informing the American people.

News ID: 426210

Date: 01 January 2017 - 21:09

RNA - "Washington is extensively supporting the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen, and Riyadh's crimes in Yemen have been concealed from the US people," Abayomi Azikiwe, the editor of the Pan-African News Wire, said on Sunday.

Warning of the dire situation in Yemen, he said, "Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) members are now bombing Yemen with the US-made fighter jets."

Azikiwe called on the peace-seeking world states to continue support for the Saudi people against their cruel rulers, and said, "The regime in Riyadh relies on the West and its accomplices in the region."

In relevant remarks on Saturday, a prominent Yemeni politician underlined that Britain along with the US and Israel should be blamed for the crimes committed by the Saudi regime against the Yemeni civilians.

"The British officials are the US and Israel's accomplices in massacring the Yemeni people," Odai Abdulhamid told.

"Instead of commitment to the international laws and efforts to demine the regions contaminated with the British-made clusters bombs, Britain has been directly and indirectly involved in killing the Yemeni people," he added.

Abdulhamid underscored that based on the international laws which ban using cluster bombs, the countries that come under attack with such bombs are entitled to prosecute all states which have been involved in using cluster bombs and try them at the international courts.

Cluster bombs, which can contain hundreds of bomblets, pose risks to civilians both during and after attacks. Unexploded bomblets can claim lives long after a conflict is over.

Multiple rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have on various occasions reported the use of cluster bombs by Riyadh in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia admitted earlier this month that it used UK-manufactured cluster bombs against Yemeni people, increasing pressure on the British government which has repeatedly refused to curb arms sales to Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia said it would cease to use UK-manufactured cluster bombs and that it had informed the UK government of this decision.

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