Human Rights Watch has always operated as an arm of the empire.
Saudi Arabia has imposed a decade plus long siege that’s committed genocide on Yemeni people. Now they blame Yemeni people for its continuation now that Saudi is on the ropes.
History won’t be kind to humanitarian imperialists.
⭕️ HRW: Ansarallah depriving civilians of food, medicine in Taiz
➤ Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Ansarallah, also known as the Houthis, of endangering civilians in Taiz city by enforcing a siege on hundreds of thousands of residents in the city.
➤ “Renewed efforts by the Houthis to cut off food, water, and medicine to Taizz show their utter disregard for civilian lives,” Niku Jafarnia, Yemen and Bahrain researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “Throughout the 12-year-long siege of [Taiz], the Houthis have bombed, starved, and denied humanitarian aid to a million residents of the city with scant adherence to international law.”
➤ An Ansarallah spokesperson told Human Rights Watch that Saudi-backed government forces were blocking roads into the city. But residents, civil society workers, and United Nations officials blamed Ansarallah for the shortages, Human Rights Watch said.