YEMEN CIVIL WAR

To:     The Right Honourable French President Hon. Emmanuel Macron

From: Athinarayanan Sanjeevraja

Date: December 22, 2018

RE:     Yemen Civil War

Suggestion:

Hon. President, let me start by paying my respects to you and through you to. We have seen Yemen civil war countless times. If I am not wrong, there have been 8 wars or insurgencies killing up to 180,000 Yemenis since 1934. There have been additional 50,000 are believed to be died by starvation and 2250 are believed to be died by Cholera since Saudi Arabia intervened in 2015. The Saudi Arabia-led intervention in 2015 has been criminal and brainless decision which is based on an erroneous evaluation of the traits of the Yemen civil war. The Yemen civil war draws its reason from decades of marginalisation on the Arab tribe of the Huthis by an autocratic rules sponsored by the KSA. Yemenis struggle is being led for more justice and a fairer distribution of national wealth for more inclusiveness in the political reality of Yemen. Moreover, we have to keep in mind that the Huthis profess a peculiar branch of Shia Islam which is starkly different from the Iranian Twelver strain so much so that they have been in all times extremely jealous of the peculiarity of their religious identity. How could they in the KSA and UAE ignore and dismiss all this by embracing the politics of death and destruction in the poorest land of the Arab world? The KSA and UAE are currently in the hands of leaders devoid of any idea of what diplomacy and political visions are all about. KSA has been brutally testing its newly acquired expensive weapons on Yemenis but the world remains silent. How often do we hear about the genocide committed by KSA?  

Hon. President, we should pay more attention to alleviating Yemenis suffering. Yemeni children are starving. No other country in the world is supporting the Yemen economy and Yemenis. I can see no justification for the war on Yemen. It is highly regret to watch the western powers including the US, UK, Germany, Spain, Canada and France in Yemen civil war which is entirely caused by their relentless supply of weapons to KSA and the UAE. They have also been providing diplomatic cover. The US and the UK are directly responsible for Yemen civil war on the Yemenis. They are being involved in supporting the Saudi terror regime. The western powers should stop being an accomplice in this genocide. They should held MBS and his fellows accountable for the suffering of the people of Yemen. Now the western powers should stop selling arms to KSA and the UAE. In real politics, they should deal with various kinds of authoritarian regimes but betting on despots is more risky than on dealing with international civil societies. Please remember it. Western powers needed to make deals which should be sharpened and waived in order to strike with it one to misbehaving dictators head relentlessly when necessary. They must be pressured to end its client state’s war in Yemen. 

Hon. President, the principal external actor in Yemen civil war is KSA followed by the UAE. The KSA and UAE are intentionally bombing civilian targets in a campaign of starvation all made possible with western powers and political support. Western powers are keeps turning a blind eye when innocent Yemenis died without taking a strong position against the KSA and UAE. Western powers policy remains untouched by blood and gore. It is my humble request to western powers proves their seriousness about pressing the KSA and UAE to end the bloodshed. Yemen civil war is one of the worst man made famines in world history. The KSA and UAE bear’s responsibility and repeating 14 million Yemenis (approximately) are at imminent risk of femine not all Yemenis may starve but most of the Yemenis will have developmental problems for the Yemenis lives.      

Hon. President, ending civil war in Yemen would be a start but it is very far from enough. Whoever involved or ordered in the Khashoggi murder need to be punished. The Qatar blockade needs to be ended. The KSA and UAE must stop their campaign of assassinations and targeting of groups who support the Arab spring. I am always thinking of Iraq and Libya. What wonderfully successful their campaigns. Both Iraq and Libya were restoring their democracy to the Middle East. Why not Yemen? We could have brought an early conclusion and avoided the human catastrophe in Yemen if UNSC should have authorised the use of force in accordance with the resolution 2216 (2015) it voted and it could have arranged to do the job itself much more efficient way than KSA. The clumsiness targeting of the KSA who’s causing many human tragedies but it is highly regret to say that western powers simply washing its hands from a resolution. I fervently hope that one day the western powers will held them accountable for what we might well call genocide one day.

Hon. President, we need to stop pretending that our addiction to Middle East oil should be reconciled with waning. Western powers belief that liberal rules based international order. In my opinion, it can’t and no expedient like belatedly demanding an end to the humanitarian disaster producing war in Yemen. Most of the countries have engaged in the appeasement of oil producing regimes in the Middle East for 45 years. We need to put an end to our hypocrisy and self-deceit. We should end our dependence on Middle East oil by finding alternative energy sources. I would recommend renewable energy as a matter of national security. The sooner we develop other energy technologies that make us less reliant on Middle East oil. We can clean our planet. We can conscience massive tax breaks and R&D funding to someone who’ll deliver clean alternative energy.          

Thank you very much for your attention Hon. President.

Respectfully yours

Athinarayanan Sanjeevraja.

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Copy to the US President Hon. Donald Trump, Spain Prime Minister Hon. Pedro Sánchez Canada Prime Minister Hon. Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Hon. Theresa May and France President Hon. Emmanuel Macron.  

*Western Powers means the US, UK, Germany, Spain, Canada and France.