Alwaght- A Yemeni child has written a touching letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, demanding the international body's chief to bring to justice Saudi Arabia for killing his classmate, and also for "massacring other Yemeni children."
UN has temporarily removed Saudi Arabia from the blacklist of children’s rights violators, after the intense pressures of Riyadh on UN to turn a blind eye on its heinous crimes against Yemeni people.
The letter goes as follows:
"I and my friends have agreed to collect money to fund the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) because Saudi Arabia has said it would cut its aids to it," the Yemeni child wrote.
"Don't be afraid of Saudi Arabia because it is massacring the Yemenis not the UN," continued the boy.
The Yemeni child maintained that "when I grow up and conclude my studies, I would become a UN Secretary General and so I would bring Saudi Arabia to justice for killing my friend Ahmed who was sitting by me on the classroom seat. I wouldn't fear them even if they threatened me because I would be great (at the post).”
"I'm not writing my name because Saudi Arabia kills me, and I don't like the death," the complaining Yemeni boy concluded.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has admitted that he removed the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen from a child killers’ list following threats from a number of countries.
Ban said on 6 June that temporarily removing the coalition from the blacklist was "one of the most painful and difficult decisions I have had to make," and that it raised “the very real prospect that millions of other children would suffer grievously."
"Children already at risk in Palestine, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen and so many other places would fall further into despair," he told reporters.
The UN secretary-general added that "it is unacceptable for member states to exert undue pressure...scrutiny is a natural and necessary part of the work of the United Nations."
Ban stopped short of directly mentioning the Saudi-led coalition in his remarks.
Saudi Arabia has been bombing the country for more than a year now. The kingdom launched the aggression in Yemen to reinstate former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.
More than 9,400 people have been killed and at least 16,000 others injured in the Saudi aggression.
Some Western countries, including the US and Britain, stand accused of aiding Saudi regime in its aggression against neighboring Yemen.
