#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #YEMEN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Italy, UCADI: YEMEN, A FORGOTTEN WAR - from #161 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Among the forgotten wars, the Yemeni one is one of the most disastrous and

devastating, accompanied by famine and the massacre of women and children . The
Yemeni state entity occupies the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula and
borders Saudi Arabia and Oman. Its geographical position allows it to control
naval traffic between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean through the Suez
Canal, competing for this role with the other coastal countries, Eritrea and
Djibouti. With about 30 million inhabitants, it is the second largest country in
the Arabian Peninsula after Saudi Arabia and, despite having energy resources, it
is the poorest country in the region.
Divided into various protectorates since 1839 it was occupied by the British who
created their presence in Aden to guard the routes and maritime traffic. The
country gained independence only in 1963 and the British declared to abandon it
in 1967, but they maintained and maintain significant control over the area.
Later two entities were created, Western-controlled North Yemen and Southern
Yemen which became a socialist republic. In 1991 these entities merged, heading
towards a difficult coexistence marked by the persistence of the exploitation of
England and the United States that control the area, flanked by the regional
powers, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United
Arab Emirates.
Yemen became a unitary state in 1990, when North Yemen, which since 1978 was
headed by Ali Abdullah Saleh, was reunified with South Yemen (People's Democratic
Republic of Yemen). Saleh, president of reunified Yemen, held power continuously
for 33 years. The Republic of Yemen, representing an exception in an area in
which monarchies, sultanates or emirates dominate, did not however constitute an
element of stability, proof of this that tensions and divisions did not cease to
characterize the reunification.
During the 33 years of the Saleh regime the northern and southern regions of
Yemen were excluded from power and from the management of energy resources,
fueling the emergence of strong opposition movements and giving rise to the
conflict. In the north the Houthis movement was born in the early 2000s, Zaydite
Shiite dissidents also called "Ansar Allah" (Partisans of God), named after the
founder of the Husayn al Houthi movement, killed by the Saleh regime in 2004
while in the South the autonomist and secessionist claims of the al-Hiram
Movement (Movement for South Yemen). Since 2004, secessionist tendencies have
developed in Yemen in the North
further weakened President Saleh, who, following the popular uprisings of the
"Arab Spring", was forced to resign on November 23, 2011. On March 19, 2015,
after taking control of the capital Sana'a in September 2014 and forcing
President Hadi to resign and flee to Aden, the southern capital of the country,
the Houthis attack the southern provinces. Thus began seven years of a war that
has known ups and downs, with none of the parties prevailing, each supported by
its allies. Taking advantage of the generalization of the conflict, both
Al-Qa?ida and Isis entered, increasing their intensity and endemizing the clash
between the different actors.

The British arrive

While Brexit is being prepared, the dream and imperial ambitions of Great Britain
are reborn which, from then on, plays on its own on the international
chessboard.In 2015, the United Kingdom enters the conflict alongside the
Saudi-led coalition for geopolitical reasons. But the British intervention does
not only want to preserve the lucrative commercial and financial relations with
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, because only those who control the
maritime traffic can have the ambitions of imperial power. It is also known that
whoever controls Aden controls one of the two accesses to the Red Sea, therefore
the economic flows and traffic between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and
the sea route that connects Asia, Africa and Europe. It has always been this way
and it is even violated to restore the strategic situation prior to 1963 when the
British had to abandon that possession. Not ignoring the new geopolitical
structure of the area, however, the British now operate in concert with the
United Arab Emirates, a country with boundless ambitions of power, where their
headquarters are based.
"Military advisers" for the area and the special forces they have at their disposal.
To counter this project is the high actor with strategic ambitions, Iran which,
in order to counter US sanctions and break the geopolitical encirclement of the
country, cannot limit itself to controlling the Strait of Hormuz to the north,
which separates it from the Arabian peninsula, but it must expand its presence in
the Red Sea, up to the mouth of the Suez Canal. Here
then emerges the "religious justification: the Houthis are Shiites (even if of a
Shiiteism different from the Iranian one) who fight against Sunnis, therefore
they must be supported more and more decisively.
The entry into the conflict of the new actor produces the greater commitment of
the United States in the conflict: as we can see, proxy wars are not a
prerogative of the war in Ukraine alone. But that's not enough: the whole area is
involved, Eritrea like Djibouti and the great powers stationed in the base that
controls the maritime routes that the country hosts. Just think that just 23,000
square kilometers of territory are home to the military forces of eight foreign
powers: the United States, China, France, Japan, India, Italy, Spain and Germany.
These will soon be joined by Saudi Arabia. To further aggravate the situation,
Ethiopia decided to invade Tigray on 4 November, unleashing a fierce war
forgotten where one of the actors is the Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed Ali,
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize who has placed his country in front of a terrible
famine, while in the region rapes are taking place as a weapon of war against
women and even little girls. As usual, it is women and the weakest who pay the
price of war.
The humanitarian disaster.
The Yemeni civil war caused the worst human crisis in the world, with around 24
million people in need of aid and over 4 million Yemenis forced to flee inside
the country in search of safety, the fourth largest population of internally
displaced persons. in the world. The overwhelming 76% of women and children have
had to leave their homes and places of residence. In 2020 alone, some 172,000
people were forced to flee their homes, according to the United Nations. Most of
the displaced people live in intolerable and inhumane conditions, without social
distancing, having to live with the Covid epidemic without even being able to
wash their hands, having destroyed the insufficient water network. According to
data provided by UNHCR, over 16 million Yemenis, or more than half of the total
population of 29 million will go hungry in 2021. while at least 50,000 people are
at risk of dying and famine is upon us; 400,000 children are in danger of life,
suffering from severe acute malnutrition, out of nearly 2.3 million malnourished.
Over 12 million children in need, 5.5 million in need of education. In February
2021 there was an increase in acute malnutrition of 16% compared to 2020 of
children under 5: according to the agencies, it is the highest figure since the
escalation of the conflict in 2015. Over 12 million children in need, 5.5 million
in need of education. In February 2021 there was an increase in acute
malnutrition of 16% compared to 2020 of children under 5: according to the
agencies, it is the highest figure since the escalation of the conflict in 2015.
Over 12 million children in need, 5.5 million in need of education. In February
2021 there was an increase in acute malnutrition of 16% compared to 2020 of
children under 5: according to the agencies, it is the highest figure since the
escalation of the conflict in 2015.
The devastating presence of Covid was joined by cholera, which exploded in 2017.
The epidemics are fueled by the fact that the water and sanitation systems have
been heavily affected by the conflict and have led to the spread of waterborne
diseases, lethal to the children, including cholera. In December 2020, almost 2.5
million cases were suspected, of which over 50% were children.
Humanitarian aid in 2020, the Humanitarian Response Plan received less than half
of the more than 4 billion allocated in 2019 and the more than 5 billion
allocated in 2018. Of the 211 million dollars that UNHCR requested for its
operations in 2020, none received only 30%.

A war that is not "covered"

Unlike the Ukrainian one, the Yemeni one is not a war covered by information and
the press. The televisions do not broadcast specials or marathons, nor do they
send correspondents; the clashes and battles do not feed the cheering of the
spectators, maps are not shown on the movement of troops on the field, strategies
are described,
generals and analysts involved to hypothesize the strategic developments of the
contenders.
The weapons are sent and sold, those are, forgetting to observe the embargo on
the sale of weapons to the belligerents. No collections are made, neither women
nor children are hosted; on the other hand, if some Yemeni manages to reach the
Mediterranean coasts or travels the Balkan route to find refuge in Europe, they
are closed in
some concentration camps in Greece or Libya are allowed to drown in the sea:
after all it is a war of series b if not c; and then the Yemenis are dark of
skin, they are generally Muslims and they are not victims of the Russians.
Who knows if Putin is willing to intervene in Yemen. It would be a reason for us
to help the victims of the conflict. And then, let's face it, the safety of the
routes and ships entering and leaving the Suez Canal are well worth the massacre
of a people, while all the great powers, including China, monitor traffic from
Djibouti, stationed in the military base. that sees them present side by side.
Yet, even in this war there are the bad guys, the Iranians, who support the
Houthis, the Americans bomb every now and then and supply weapons to Saudi
Arabia, the English jackals have installed their military advisers and, like in
Ukraine, they send others. to die.
At the moment there is a truce in place caused by the positive withdrawal from
the conflict of the United States: Biden engaged on many fronts has pulled the
plug. An effect to think about!

The Editors

http://www.ucadi.org/2022/07/12/yemen-una-guerra-dimenticata/
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