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The bitter cost of fighting in Yemen and the urgent need for a united stand
[ARABNEWS] Twelve years ago, when I lived in Aden, protests by the Southern Movement were a regular occurrence ‐ and with equal regularity, they were brutally suppressed. The complaint of the Movement was this: that the unification of Yemen...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... in 1990 had been carried out with a promise of parity between North and South, but this had failed to materialize. When I left Yemen ‐ young, naive and overconfident of my analytical prowess ‐ I predicted a civil war within three years. But, like many, I was thinking about a re-run of the civil war of 1994: a north-south clash over the steamrollering of the promises made four years earlier. The South lost that one, and northern dominance of the economy and government of Yemen grew apace. Posted by: Fred 2019-08-15 |
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