Carnage Unleashed: Saudis Turn Yemeni Weddings into Funerals

Rasa - It’s a sad day for humanity. Yemeni people continue to see death on their doorstep, even those who are getting married, because the US-designed, Saudi-built slaughterhouse is in their name.

News ID: 437360

Date: 25 April 2018 - 23:04

RNA - On Monday, April 23, Saudi warplanes carried out an overnight attack against a wedding party in the Yemeni town of Hajjah. Two missiles struck the site and killed a large number of civilians. Medics initially reported 33 were killed and scores wounded. But now officials put the figure as high as 50 slain and counting.

The UN Secretary General was quick to decry Saudi Arabia's deadly airstrike. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement on Monday: The Secretary General reminds all parties of their obligations under International Humanitarian Law concerning the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure during armed conflicts. He calls for a prompt, effective and transparent investigation.

But will there be any investigation. Well, there could be. And even if there is an investigation and the US doesn’t veto it at the UN Security Council, will any Saudi murderer be held to account for this violent and inhumane move at the International Criminal Court in The Hague? The answer speaks for itself:

Saudi Arabia's recent increase on attacks on innocent civilians – including wedding parties - is a sign that they have been unsuccessful in obtaining their goals in the war-torn country. The Americans and the Saudis are desperate to save face; so they continue to build more slaughterhouses in the poorest country in the Arab world and in the name of the defenceless people of Yemen.

According to Fars News Agancy, this criminal war is the destruction of civil society – and it has no time limit. And Saudi Arabia’s longest war continues at the behest of Western war profiteers and regime changers with apparent ease. They continue to unleash carnage because they are permitted by the Security Council and the deafening silence and complicity of some of its members - with little international scrutiny or debate and accountability.

This war machine fuelled by the myopic greed of the Americans and the Saudis for profit and regional domination is built upon a fear factory of lies and allegations almost everywhere on planet earth, such as those against Iran and its alleged involvement in the war without even a shred of corroborative evidence.

The people of good conscience must ask themselves: What does this reveal? What are they going to do to stop this senseless war that is fought in the name of Global War on Terror, freedom, and democracy? If they do nothing, will they also have blood on their hands like the Saudi-led coalition members? What should they do in order to stop the Saudis from turning Yemen’s sweet weddings into sour funerals and more? All they need to do is follow their conscience.

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