WAR WON’T BRING PEACE

SAUDI Arabia will never emerge victorious in Yemen. And the US and UK are complicit in the humanitarian crisis. It is their money paying to refuel the Saudi Arabian bombers, it is their intelligence identifying targets for bombing and it is their ally – Saudi Arabia – blockading the arrival of food and medicine.

The continuation of the war means further human misery, poverty, hunger, malnutrition, extremism, radicalism, famine, diseases and regional insecurity. Yemenis are also suffering from the worst cholera outbreak in history, with at least 1 million expected to be affected by the end of the year, including 600 000 children

The irony is Saudi Arabia has not fired a shot against the occupiers of Palestine but fires at civilians in Yemen, one of the poorest countries. It is ridiculous to think that slaughtering Yemenis will alleviate suffering and bring peace to the Middle East.

The sooner the international community realises this, the better.

Naushad Ally Ismail

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