Houthis use civilians as human shields in Hodeidah

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Houthi militias are using civilians as human shields in Hodeidah, Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed told the UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen met on Tuesday.

“The Iranian-backed Houthi militia controls the city, takes civilians as human shields, deprives them of humanitarian aid and sells it in the market for their personal gain and to finance their wars,” the Yemeni prime minister said.

During the meeting in the interim capital of Aden with Lise Grande, the prime minister discussed the efforts and projects of the United Nations in Yemen during the last period and the situation in Hodeidah.

He urged the UN and international organizations to provide more assistance to those affected in Yemen, suffering from the humanitarian crisis that has resulted from the war being waged by the militia against Yemeni people.

The prime minister urged aid organizations to open their offices in the Aden to ensure delivery of projects and supplies to Yemenis affected by the war in all areas.

Meanwhile, Yemeni Minister of Endowments and Guidance, Ahmad Attiya said that reinstating political leadership to the internationally recognized government and liberating Hodeidah from the Houthis was inevitable.

“The Houthi militias do not believe in peace and co-existence because they are a militia that receives its guidance from Iran and is trying to change the identity of Yemen and extract it from its Arab surroundings,” he said at a lecture given at the University of Saba in the Yemeni province of Marib.

Attiya claimed that the Houthi militias manipulate young people and recruit them into their wars, violating international human rights laws.

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1412416/middle-east
 
"The People's Republic of Southern Yemen was declared on 30 November 1967, later becoming the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from 1970 to 1990: its historical legacy has been crucial in legitimizing demands for the independence of the South. Moreover, this experience presents memories of internal conflicts in the country’s former Socialist regime, which did not wholly succeed in suppressing regional divisions inherited from the British colonial period."
https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubbli...cessionists-divided-regional-identities-19930
 
“The Houthi militias do not believe in peace and co-existence because they are a militia that receives its guidance from Iran and is trying to change the identity of Yemen and extract it from its Arab surroundings,”

Attiya claimed that the Houthi militias manipulate young people and recruit them into their wars, violating international human rights laws.
 
Jack said:
Why not cut Yemen in half and call it a day?
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That's how it was from about 1967 to 1994.. It was a communist country controlled by the Soviets with Aden as its capital. That was before AQ took over as the left Afghanistan.
 
"While the concept of Yemen as a distinct territory predates Islam, it has rarely been under the rule of a single government. For much of the past century, the country was split into the northern Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and the southern People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY). These were unified in 1990. The line separating north and south reflected the country’s division under British and Ottoman rule. But the cultural differences between the two regions are real – and accentuated by their divergent histories. Culture and politics in the north are coloured by over 1,000 years of Zaidi theocratic rule – a branch of Shi’ism found almost exclusively in Yemen. By contrast, the south was transformed by a century of British influence, beginning in the mid-19th century. Great Britain ran the strategic port of Aden directly as a colony and established itself in the port’s hinterlands and other areas of the south through financial and military aid. It struck deals with the heads of the various sultanates, sheikhdoms and emirates that constituted the Federation of South Arabia and the neighbouring Protectorate of South Arabia The differences between north and south only deepened after the withdrawal of the British in 1967 and the subsequent decades of rule under the PDRY, which was the only Marxist state in the Arab world."
https://www.ecfr.eu/mena/yemen

Interesting map at this link.
 
Jack said:
"The People's Republic of Southern Yemen was declared on 30 November 1967, later becoming the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from 1970 to 1990: its historical legacy has been crucial in legitimizing demands for the independence of the South. Moreover, this experience presents memories of internal conflicts in the country’s former Socialist regime, which did not wholly succeed in suppressing regional divisions inherited from the British colonial period."
https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubbli...cessionists-divided-regional-identities-19930
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I see you already know that.........
 
Jack said:
"The People's Republic of Southern Yemen was declared on 30 November 1967, later becoming the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from 1970 to 1990: its historical legacy has been crucial in legitimizing demands for the independence of the South. Moreover, this experience presents memories of internal conflicts in the country’s former Socialist regime, which did not wholly succeed in suppressing regional divisions inherited from the British colonial period."
https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubbli...cessionists-divided-regional-identities-19930
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I see you already know that.........
 
"The Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia merged to become South Yemen on 30 November 1967 and became a Marxist socialist republic in 1970 supported by the Soviet Union. Despite its efforts to bring stability into the region, it was involved in a brief civil war in 1986. With the collapse of communism, South Yemen was unified with the Yemen Arab Republic (commonly known as "North Yemen") on 22 May 1990, to form the present-day Yemen. After four years, however, South Yemen declared its secession from the north, which resulted in the north occupying south Yemen and the 1994 civil war. Another attempt to restore South Yemen continues on since 2017."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemen


My vote is for a North Yemen/South Yemen resolution.
 
Jack said:
"The Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia merged to become South Yemen on 30 November 1967 and became a Marxist socialist republic in 1970 supported by the Soviet Union. Despite its efforts to bring stability into the region, it was involved in a brief civil war in 1986. With the collapse of communism, South Yemen was unified with the Yemen Arab Republic (commonly known as "North Yemen") on 22 May 1990, to form the present-day Yemen. After four years, however, South Yemen declared its secession from the north, which resulted in the north occupying south Yemen and the 1994 civil war. Another attempt to restore South Yemen continues on since 2017."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemen


My vote is for a North Yemen/South Yemen resolution.
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The Houthis are in Northern Yemen for the most part..

The civil war between the communists and the monarchist last about 6 years.. Egyptian troops (on the side of the communists) fought the Saudis and the Emirates.
 
Havana Moon said:
Well it's a damn sight more dangerous now!!
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Outside the capital it was always dangerous.. Lots of kidnappings for ransom that sometimes went wrong.

BP had a refinery there all during the 1950s ... sometimes my dad had to go down there to consult.

Too dangerous to take the family.
 
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