Yemeni protesters blame UN for failure to stop Saudi war

Hundreds of Yemeni people have held a protest against Saudi Arabia's prolonged war on the impoverished Arab country, blaming the United Nations for its failure to bring the deadly campaign to a decisive end.

The protesters gathered in front of the UN office in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, on Sunday to express outrage over the misery the Saudi war machine has brought to the country.

The demonstrators said the world body had failed to curb the massive starvation in Yemen and block further displacement of the Yemeni people.

"We are here to tell the United Nations that it is now accused of (contributing to) the starvation of the people of Yemen. It is now responsible for the displacement of the Yemeni people," said Khalil el-Shamri, the head of the workers' syndicate of Yemen, one of the organizers of the demonstration.

In June last year, the UN removed Saudi Arabia and its allies from its list of child rights violators, less than a week after blacklisting them for killing nearly 800 Yemeni children in 2015. The removal prompted angry reactions from human rights groups, which accused then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of caving in to pressure from powerful countries.

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