The US kills Yemenis, besieges them, and denies their rights

The US keeps refusing the demands of Sana’a, which stipulate paying the salaries of Yemenis from the revenues of Yemeni oil. However, this oil is being looted by the coalition of aggression.

It also completely rejected the condition made by Sana’a to lift the siege on the ports of Hodeidah, and rejected the demands to lift the air embargo on Sana’a airport, and even considered them as “impossible” conditions, meaning it neither accepted nor recognized them as basic rights that the Yemeni people own.

The US envoy – who Biden appointed himself as a special envoy for Yemen affairs, Tim Lenderking, announced in a press conference – the US administration’s rejection of the demands of Sana’a to pay salaries, which he described as “impossible”, and even threatened the Yemenis with war and siege again. Also, the US representative to the Security Council spoke on Monday yesterday to confirm the US rejection of the demands of the Yemenis and their rights.

Rather, the insolence of the American delegate reached the point of claiming that the Yemenis want a truce in the way that America itself wants, a truce without salaries, with terms and conditions on the entry of a specific number of fuel ships to Hodeidah, and with a few flights traveling from and to Sana’a International airport. On the other hand, Sana’a considers the right of the Yemeni people, like others, to lift the air ban entirely from Sana’a airport, and allow the travel to and from all airports in the world, without any restrictions or conditions, in addition to lifting the siege on the ports of Hodeidah and allowing the entry of oil derivatives and goods into the port without any bribes, obstacles and restrictions.

In regard to salaries, which the US administration considered it an impossible right to give, even when the payments are from Yemen’s resources that are being plundered by the American-led coalition, saying it is an extreme and impossible demand, as if America had installed itself as a will over the Yemenis that determines what Yemen is allowed from fuel and flights, and controls who will get their salary and who will not.

The US administration describes these demands to implement the legitimate rights of the Yemeni people as “impossible conditions,” which indicates that it deliberately aims to continue the war and siege on the Yemeni people, and wants to impose a truce that does not meet the minimum basic rights of Yemenis.

America, through its representative in the Security Council, renewed its malicious position by rejecting the Yemenis’ demands to lift the siege and pay salaries. Before that, the American envoy-military spokesman, Tim Lenderking, threatened to escalate the war against the Yemenis and even give them the choice between accepting America’s conditions or war and said: “There are two options.” Either return to war or extend and expand the armistice,” and according to his agendas, considering that the humanitarian demands made by Sana’a are “impossible demands and more flexibility should be shown.”

Observers deplore the US envoy’s description of lifting the siege and disbursing salaries as “impossible” to achieve, saying that they are all just humanitarian demands, including disbursing employees’ salaries from Yemeni oil and gas revenues that go to the Saudi National Bank, in addition to lifting the siege on Sanaa International Airport and the port of Hodeidah, which are considered to be vital lifelines for the Yemeni people.

Day after another the American role in the continuation of the aggression and the siege on Yemen is becoming more vivid, and it is known of playing a prominent role in the decision of the war, its continuation and its rejection of peace. The US latest position denies giving the Yemenis demands to pay salaries and lift the siege, which exposes the US policies in using the method of starvation and mass murder as a method of war against millions of civilians.

Before that, the American footprint is clear in all aspects of the military-air war against the Yemeni people, which claimed the lives of over 50 thousand casualties. It is also responsible for the deadly siege that has killed about 200,000 civilians with diseases, starvation and epidemics.

What appears to the public today confirms that America, which is facing political and economic crises in reaching a truce for its own interest only, without regard for the basic rights of the Yemeni people, and no consideration for any urgent humanitarian aspects, but rather with excessive brazenness, its envoy and its representative in the Security Council speak that what they say are the demands of the Yemenis, giving themselves the role to speak on behalf the Yemeni people.

Since the first day of the aggression, America has been and still is the one managing the aggression against the Yemeni people, arming it and managing its criminal operations that killed tens of thousands of Yemeni children, women and the elderly, and it is the one who ran the siege and starvation as a war of annihilation against the Yemeni people, and it is the one who refuses to stop the war and lift the siege. It wants to impose a truce for its interests only, and the recent American position in refusing to pay salaries and lift the siege confirms the US persistence in the war on the Yemeni people and in their death by starvation and siege.

Before the US rejection of giving the Yemeni people their rights, it must be pointed out that it refused the investigation into the horrific crimes against civilians in Yemen since the start of the aggression, because this is a condemnation of its perpetration, its allies and tools of war crimes against civilians in Yemen. What was witnessed during the past years reveals the fact that the US is the one who kills the Yemeni people and stands behind all crimes against the Yemeni people, and it is the one who planned, plotted and declared war and aggression against Yemen by using its puppets.

The US launched the aggression and managed its operations since the first day, and its dirty role in this criminal war is not hidden from the Yemeni people, and today it has to face its strategic and moral predicament as a result of its failure in the war on Yemen, and as a result of its horrific crimes against the people of Yemen.