Children of Yemen Denounce International Silence to US-Saudi Crimes

Yemeni children organized a stand in front of the UN building in Sana’a and released a statement to condemn the international silence regarding the crimes of the US-Saudi aggression and siege against children.

“The crimes of aggression continued because they are greenlighted by the world. The dreams of millions of children in Yemen have been stolen,” the statement said.

They condemned the continuation of the suffocating blockade of medicines, and held US-Saudi aggression and international community responsible for killing children in hospitals daily.

The statement considered that international conventions and treaties on children’s rights only serve war criminals and guarantee them peace and security. “We affirm our right to life, to bring the perpetrators of crimes to international courts, expose war criminals and put them on black lists and the internationally wanted list,” the children of Yemen said in the statement.

For his part, a member of the political bureau of Ansarullah, Abdul Wahhab Al-Mahbashi, said: throughout history it has not been witnessed more heinous crimes such what is committed by the US-Saudi aggression coalition against the children of Yemen.

He stressed that the Yemenis will not forget those who killed their children and women for years, and we will not forget our revolutionaries, pointing out that every Yemeni child who fell in the invaders’ fire creates generations of revolutionary fighters.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the claim of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.

The victims of cluster bombs alone have reached more than 25,000 civilians since the beginning of the US-Saudi aggression on Yemen, most of them are children and women.

Recently, the Executive Center for Mine Action revealed numbers on the victims hit by US-Saudi remnant bombs and mines during October.

In a statement, the center said that the number of victims during last October reached 18 martyrs and 28 injured. All were due to mines, cluster bombs and remnants of the US-Saudi aggression. Since the beginning of this year, the center reported the death of 219 citizens and the injury of 424 others.

The statement added that the center did not receive any response from the United Nations Development Program regarding the mine detectors, explaining that the continued denial of entry of the mine detectors by the aggression represents an obstruction to humanitarian work and deliberately harming the largest number of Yemenis.

He pointed out that Security Council Resolution (2643) specified the mission of the Hodeidah Agreement mission to supervise the removal of mines and cluster bombs within the Hodeidah governorate, revealing the failure of the UN mission, which has not yet issued a statement explaining that the aggression prevents the entry of mine detectors, although it is obligated to reveal that Pursuant to a Security Council resolution.