Berlin Involved in Yemen War Through Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE: Telepolis
The German magazine, Telepolis, said that Berlin is involved in the Yemen war through arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which were used in the war.
It added that the German government is promoting its own weapons industry, and that its talk about human rights is nothing but false talk, as values are trampled underfoot, as it continues to export weapons to kill the children of Yemen.
Telepolis confirmed that the German Deutschlandfunk radio reported in 2019 that the German government approved, during the year 2017 alone, arms exports worth 1.3 billion euros to the countries participating in the Yemen war, adding, “In fact, the German arms trade that is used to kill in Yemen has been going on for years.”
The magazine reported that the Green Party strongly criticized and opposed this deal. In November 2018, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, shortly after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ordered a halt to arms supplies to Saudi Arabia.
Telepolis said that in September last year, the German government changed this course of foreign policy, one week after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Saudi Arabia. German arms supplies to Saudi Arabia have always been largely suspended, except that for the first time since taking office, he agreed to export equipment, ammunition or missiles for Saudi combat aircraft.
The magazine added by saying: Of course, we know that Saudi Arabia is a terrible regime that does not care about human rights, Whereas the recent Amnesty International report on the application of the death penalty in all parts of the world put the monarchy or the petrodollar system at the top of the list. In 2022, 81 people were executed in one day.
It touched on the fact that with 11 million children in dire need in Yemen alone, we can talk about a crisis or one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world. However, the choice of the term ignores the many thousands of lives claimed by the military war since 2015.
The US-Saudi aggression imposes a suffocating blockade on Yemen and closes ports and airports to increase the suffering of the Yemeni People and create deteriorating living and economic conditions. It is trying to barter the humanitarian aspect to obtain political and military gains at the expense of the Yemeni People.
The blockade has caused tremendous suffering for millions of Yemenis who are largely dependent on imports of food, fuel and medicines. It is one of the main reasons for the large-scale humanitarian crisis in the country that has pushed millions of Yemenis toward starvation and death due to lack of medical supplies, prompting the UN to call it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
In January, a statement issued by 172 international human rights networks and organizations called for stopping the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and lifting the siege.
The international organizations’ statement expressed concern about the continued exacerbation of human suffering in light of the catastrophic escalating threat to more than 20 million Yemeni citizens of starvation.
The statement stressed that the exacerbation of human suffering in Yemen was accompanied by the interruption of salaries and the continuation of restrictions imposed on ports and airports.
“The human conscience must not ignore the suffering of the Yemeni People as a result of war, siege, hunger, disease and death,” the statement stated, noting that it is necessary to respond to the repeated humanitarian calls issued by the vital sectors in Yemen, especially the health sector.
The statement of the international organizations called on the countries involved in aggression to quickly pay the salaries of employees in all governorates, and to lift the blockade, especially on Sana’a airport and the port of Hodeidah.