The Nobel Peace laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman has expressed her anger at what she considered complicity and silence of the international community over what is going on in Yemen.

“If I’m angry about something, or sad about something, it’s about the silence of the international community and their complicity,” Karman said in a phone interview with The Star. 

She added, “Canada is giving from its right hand the humanitarian aid, and from the other, missiles.”

The United Nations and human rights groups, the newspaper stated, have documented abuses and potential war crimes on both sides of the conflict, including the deliberate targeting of civilians. 

The UN has not updated its death toll since 2016, when it reported that 10,000 people had been killed in the war, more than half of them civilians, the media outlet continued.