Intl. Community Recoils as Saudi Arabia Goes on ‘Crusade’ of Mass Killing in Yemen
11 August 2017 (RT)* — While few will pause upon hearing that Yemen was bombed yet again by Saudi Arabia’s war coalition, thus leading to many deaths, the kingdom’s propensity to concentrate its firepower on civilians has become a little hard to stomach.
It is unlikely Mr. McGoldrick’s words, however sincerely he meant them, will translate into any real actions on the ground, because Yemen does not have a powerful lobby to speak on its behalf. Yemen’s Resistance Movement is stuck its back against the wall, caught in the web of a false binary that labeled and criminalized its people out of mainstream politics.
Yemen’s Resistance has been branded under its invaders’ narrative.
This is how the Independent puts it: “Yemen has been torn apart by the civil war in which the exiled government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, supported by the Saudi-led coalition, is fighting the Iran-allied Houthi group. The Houthi group hails from the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam and controls much of the north of the country.”
How grand the arrogant pen of our media, turning truths on their heads so that people’s faith and their calls for political self-determination would be made invalid by the manners of their prayers, and the origins of their kin. Why bother with facts when fairy tales can be weaved and war crimes excused.
Has anyone bothered to look under Yemen’s burning rubles to notice how many civilians were claimed to al-Saud’s crusade before throwing sectarian adjectives around? Is freedom a right or a privilege reserved to a certain elite? Because from where I’m sitting it sounded almost as if mainstream media was trying to rationalize murder by waving religious bias and ethnocentrism.
One last thing: if religious labels matter that much why have we failed to give Saudi Arabia its own? Or maybe that would be rude.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT, nor do they necessarily represent those of Human Wrongs Watch.
*Catherine Shakdam‘s Op-Edge was published in RT. Go to Original.
Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/08/15/intl-community-recoils-as-saudi-arabia-goes-on-crusade-of-mass-killing-in-yemen/
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