By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Yesterday in our Viewpoint Column we said if the UN could live up to its designated role of neutrality by avoiding any words or actions indicating its preference for any of the parties involved in armed conflicts, then only can it restore its lost trust and infuse confidence in the belligerents regarding the benefits of diplomatic solutions to war and bloodshed.
The defenders of Yemen’s independence and sovereignty in the face of the state terrorism of Saudi Arabia and the UAE have often complained about what they say open partiality of the World Body in its reluctance to denounce the death and destruction wrought on their homeland for the past seven years by the above-mentioned invaders, while passing resolutions to prevent the government in Sana’a from acquiring the necessary means of defence to shoot down enemy aircraft.
The events of the past few days lend credence to the claims of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah Movement, which has unjustly been called ‘rebels’ for protecting the country from turning into a satellite of the Saudi-UAE duo of aggressors, which are awash with oil wealth and in servitude to the US and Britain, seem to have the licence to slaughter the people of Yemen without any accountability.
Almost every other day, the Saudi warplanes, without the least fear of meeting any anti-aircraft fire, rain down bombs on residential/commercial areas and the civilian structure of the towns and cities of Yemen, while the world watches in silence their state terrorism, and the West continues its supply of more lethal arms.
The moment, however, the Yemeni army exercises its right to retaliate against war crimes by firing a few missiles or drones on the military and industrial sites of the aggressors, its defensive actions are condemned in the strongest possible words by not just the invaders but their supporters worldwide.
This became more evident last Monday when after days of warning the UAE to desist from its war crimes in Yemen by funding mercenaries to continue the bloodshed, the government in Sana’a targeted a section of the Abu Dhabi airport where the military is based and set ablaze a few fuel tanks in the Musaffah area.
Immediately, pandemonium was let loose, as the US, the UK, and their client regimes leapt to the defence of the UAE and Saudi Arabia by denouncing the warning shot fired by the defenders of Yemen – with more to follow.
What was most unfortunate, however, was the reaction of the United Nations’ Secretary-General whose words instead of defusing the crisis might fuel it, and make the perpetrators of the Yemen war more impudent in committing more war crimes.
Antonio Guterres’ spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, released his official statement, saying the UN Secretary-General “condemns” the suspected drone attacks and calls on “all parties to exercise maximum restraint and prevent any escalation”, adding: “Attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure are prohibited by international humanitarian law.”
Why the UN Chief does not use these same words when the Saudis daily attack the civilian infrastructure of Yemen and indiscriminately slaughter the defenceless men, women, and children of Yemen?
This is not the end of the story. Then came the ferocious bombing of Sana’a and cities by Saudi warplanes in the early morning hours of Tuesday and the death of at least twenty people, including an entire family, but sadly, no country denounced the latest war crime by Riyadh.
Even Mr. Antonio Guterres decided to look the other way. Perhaps, peace in the UN jargon means the conquest of Yemen by Saudi Arabia and the UAE with their unending supply of state-of-the-art weapons from the US, Britain, and France; coupled with the total subjugation of the poor people of Yemen as the slaves of the West and even of the illegal Zionist entity.