A Massive March in Sana’a Denouncing Saudi Economic War on Yemen
YemenExtra
M.A.
Bab al Yemen region in the capital Sana’a witnessed Friday afternoon a rally under the slogan “America and Saudi Arabia are behind high prices and dollar’s rising,” in which the participants held America, Saudi Arabia and its mercenaries the responsibility for the rise in the price of foreign currency against the national currency.
The participants condemned the economic war led by the Saudi-led coalition aimed at starving the Yemeni people in conjunction with the military war and the suffocating siege that the country has been subjected to for four years.
A number of statements were made in the march, which confirmed that the countries of coalition seek to push the national economy towards mass collapse to achieve their goals on the Yemeni battlefields.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, Abdul Salam Mahtouri, held the international community accountable for the continuation of the war and the poor economic situation in Yemen. He pointed out that the government has maintained a large proportion of the balance despite the harmful actions of the coalition targeting the national economy.
He also stressed that confronting the economic war is through refusing to deal with the new currency, boycotting Saudi and UAE goods, and to not scramble to buy goods.
Meanwhile, the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of Sana’a, Dr. Mishal Al-Rifi, pointed out that the Saudi act of printing more than one trillion Yemeni riyals without a cover of foreign currencies caused the collapse of the Yemeni riyal against the dollar and led to a high price rise.
The statement of the mass rally said that the decline and rise in the local exchange market on foreign currencies led to the deterioration of the value of the national currency. This comes within the framework of the war against all Yemenis.
It also called on the United Nations to fulfill its obligations in the disbursement of salaries of state employees to about one million and 200 thousand employees, which led to great damage in all economic and service sectors, and oblige the fugitive ex-president Hadi to refund the funds looted in partnership with the forces of the coalition.
The statement urged the government of rescue to strengthen control and hold all those complicit with forces of the coalition in the economic war against the Yemeni people.
Moreover, the statement condemned the continuing forces of the Saudi-led coalition in committing massacres against the people of Yemen, the latest brutal crime was against the children of Dahyan in Saada Province, which killed and wounded more than 130.
Concluding it, the statement called on the international community, international organizations and member states of the Security Council to take full legal and moral responsibility for the repercussions of the economic war on the Yemeni people. It called on the United Nations to abide by international conventions and lift the maritime, air and land blockade imposed on Yemen.