Press TV has conducted an interview with Hussein al-Bukhaiti, an activist and political commentator in Sana’a, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s fresh airstrikes on Yemen.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Talk to us about the ongoing Saudi bombardments of infrastructure in civilian territories in Yemen and also about the endgame that the Al Saud is pursuing in this scenario?
Bukhaiti: It is not clear what their goal is because they keep changing their goal every now and then; and the thing that is clear [is that] they just want to destroy Yemen, to destroy Yemeni army and all infrastructure. They have continued the strikes; and yesterday and today we saw the heaviest strike on the capital of Sana’a and mainly they kept attacking same places they have been attacking from the beginning of the war.
This shows you that they have not reached their goal and they are not sure have they destroyed this area or not? So their intelligence and whatever they use is useless and the only thing that is damaging Yemen is targeting infrastructure, targeting power stations and as well giving cover for extremists and al-Qaeda especially in the south and in Ma’rib because those al-Qaeda, with the Saudi strike, they regroup themselves, they get supplies from airplanes and they get as well intelligence and this is the main thing that is affecting Yemen because… is the cause of all problems we had before this Saudi aggression in Yemen.
Press TV: Mr. Bukhaiti, are you surprised at the inaction of the international community with the United Nations at its helm? We know that this aerial campaign and the bombardment started without United Nations mandate and it continues in that form, and we see civilians are bearing the brunt of the attacks?
Bukhaiti: This is actually expected because especially the UN Security Council is controlled by the United States, Britain and France and Western countries. And those Western countries, they always look for their interest and their interest is to have trouble in the Middle East so that they can keep selling weapons and their companies can come to rebuild those destroyed countries; and we have seen during the invasion of Iraq, there was not any UN mandate and as well with the Saudi attack, there was not.
Just after they attacked Yemen, they went to the UN and they went to the Arab Council, tried to legalize this attack but the UN actually did kind of legalize this attack in a different way by their Resolution 2216 when they give their thank to the Saudis and to the [Persian] Gulf states for their support of Yemen. And this is clear that they took the side of the invader not the side of the victims.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/23/412475/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-UN
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