Yemenis rally against the Saudi aggression, Sana'a, September 21, 2015.
Yemenis take to the streets in the capital, Sana'a, to slam the relentless and deadly Saudi aggression against their country.
On
Monday, thousands of people staged a demonstration in Sana’a at the
invitation of the leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement, Abdel
Malek al-Houthi.
The massive rally was held to mark the first
anniversary of the Yemenis’ revolution against the corrupt
administration of the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh
Mansour Hadi.
The rally came a day after the Houthi leader urged
Yemenis to attend the demonstration to "prove to the world that the
people stand by the leadership of the revolution.”
Abdel Malek al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement
The
revolution of the Yemeni nation will continue "until the country enjoys
independence and stability" and "the people benefit from its wealth,”
he said.
Houthi also voiced support for diplomatic efforts to
solve the deadly conflict in the impoverished Arab country as long as
they "do not harm the national sovereignty, legitimize the [Saudi]
aggression and deny the Yemeni people their rights.”
Last summer,
the Ansarullah activists, who played a major role in the ouster of the
country’s longtime dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, staged demonstrations
in Sana'a for nearly two months, demanding the departure of Hadi’s
government over corruption and marginalization of the country’s Shia
community.
In September 2014, Ansarullah revolutionary fighters
gained control of Sana’a following a four-day battle with army forces
loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the half-brother of the former
dictator. Civilian deaths rising
Yemenis
inspect the rubble of buildings destroyed during Saudi airstrikes in
the capital city of Sana’a, September 19, 2015. (Photo by AFP)
Report
also said the Saudi aerial assaults on Monday claimed the lives of 25
civilians in Sana’a, 30 in the southwestern province of Hajjah, and
dozens more in the central province of Ibb.
On March 26, Saudi
Arabia began its aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – in a
bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to
Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
According to reports, 6,091
Yemenis have so far lost their lives in the Saudi airstrikes and a total
of 13,552 people have been injured. Retaliatory attacks against Saudis
Meanwhile,
reports said that the Yemeni army, backed by popular committees,
launched attacks against Saudi positions in the kingdom’s southwestern
province of Jizan in retaliation for Riyadh’s unabated military campaign
against the Yemeni nation. According to reports, the Yemeni forces
managed to bring three villages under control in Jizan.