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| Vice President Reveals Bigger Losses during Sixth Saada War |
| 2010-12-24 |
| [Yemen Post] Vice President Abu Rabu Mansour Hadi admitted on Wednesday that the government had suffered big losses during the sixth war on the Houthi rebellion in the far north that ended in a ceasefire early this year. At a closed meeting with the ruling party leaders in Rima province, Hadi said the government spent about $ 3 billion on the war operations and that 3000 soldiers were killed and 14000 others maimed, a source, who attended the meeting told almasdaronline.com. The website quoted the source, who asked not to be named, as saying that Hadi ordered to turn off recorders and videos before he revealed the losses, thrice the losses revealed in July. Hadi also held the Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition, responsible for supporting the Houthi Group during the sixth war in Saada. The government and the group reached in February this year a ceasefire ending a six-year war between them. In July, a governmental report estimated the losses during the war in Saada at $ 850000, but the figures about the losses and casualties were not precise. |
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