SANAA (Russia Today) – Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has singled out Saudi Arabia as the source of what the United Nations estimates to be the world’s worst cholera outbreak in Yemen.
The Russia Today Arabic news channel quoted Saleh as saying that the Saudi-led coalition was behind the spread of the highly contagious disease through the use of internationally banned weapons.
"The coalition is using devastating weapons such as cluster and thermobaric bombs which leave very harmful effects for the people of Yemen," he added.
Medics have begun a field research to find out the sources of the cholera epidemic. What they have found strengthens the idea that Saudi Arabia has started a biological war against Yemen.
Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen since March 2015 in a bid to restore Saleh’s successor Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a Riyadh ally, to power. Yemen's crisis began after Hadi stepped down as president and refused to negotiate power-sharing with the country’s Houthis.
For much of the world, cholera, a bacterial infection spread by water contaminated with faeces, has been relegated to the history books. But the war has damaged Yemen's infrastructure and deepened poverty, allowing the disease to come roaring back.