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Yemen’s Urgent Need for Anti-Aircraft Batteries

Date: 21 January 2022 - 22:03

News ID: ۹۹۱۳۴

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Last Monday’s purely defensive retaliation by Yemen against UAE for its war crimes has exposed the hypocrisy of the West and its clients around the world, who have not stopped their tirade against the aggressed government in Sana’a, by calling the popular Ansarullah Movement ‘rebel’, ‘terrorist’, and what not.
The motive is to embolden Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to commit more war crimes in Yemen where these two invaders have so far slaughtered around 400,000 men, women, and children over the past seven years, and are still not satiated, since they seem to have a license from the UN, the US, the UK, France, Israel, and most Arab regimes for shedding more Muslim blood.
This was fully evident over the past two days as the Saudis relentlessly bombed Sana’a, Sa’da, Hodeida, and other areas killing some 200 more hapless Yemenis, including more than a hundred inmates in a detention centre, and all members of a family of 14.
Neither the World Body has denounced this latest bout of aggression on a country that lacks anti-aircraft batteries to defend its citizens and down Saudi warplanes, nor Washington, which along with London and Paris continues to supply billions of dollars of weapons, thinks the regime in Riyadh should ever be labeled terrorist.
Abu Dhabi, which raised a hue and cry over Yemen’s retaliatory strike on its oil depot and airport, also knows that it will never be called terrorist, no matter what Yemeni islands it occupies and rents to the illegal Zionist entity, or what lethal weapons it provides to is mercenaries for destabilizing Shabwah, Marib, Aden, and other parts of the aggressed country.
This is the reason the UAE is on an arms shopping spree in South Korea and has concluded a 3.5 billion-dollar contract for the Cheongung II KM-SAM missile interceptor to thwart more projectiles that the government of Yemen may fire in retaliation for war crimes Abu Dhabi is intent on committing on Yemeni soil.
So, what should Sana’a do in the face of the US-backed aggression that has made the Yemeni people sitting ducks to the waves of Saudi aircraft raining bombs upon civilians?
How should it circumvent the unjust UN Security Council ban upon the Ansarullah Movement for import of defensive equipment?
Well, we the journalists may not be having definitive answers, but surely there are ways to procure means of defence on the international black market, as well as conscientious suppliers willing to help the Yemeni government protect its people from death and destruction.
Hypocrisy may be the chief propaganda weapon of the hegemons and their clients in distorting facts, while for those whose humanitarian tendencies are still alive and whose hearts ache for the oppressed and aggressed people of Yemen, it is a God-pleasing duty to help the government in Sana’a safeguard the country’s independence and strive for durable diplomatic solution through all legal and legitimate means, including upgrading of defence needs.