Of the most important duties of Yemen’s legitimate authority, without which it will have no legitimacy or no one could call it so at all, are treatment of the wounded, care of martyrs’ families,

payment of salaries and providing both basic services and relief to the citizens, the human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman said. 

In a statement posted on her Facebook account early today, Karman pointed out that such matters are not secondary but primary. 

Yemeni activist has issued scathing criticism of Riyadh-based exile government led by Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, which she has called upon to carry out its responsibilities towards citizens in general and victims of the war in particular. 

She has also addressed the Saudi-led Arab coalition, which launched in March of last year a massive military campaign in Yemen with the aim of reversing Houthi gains and restoring Hadi’s embattled government, saying that Yemen faces famine as state employees have not paid for nearly two months and people have neither medicine nor food.