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The bitter cost of fighting in Yemen and the urgent need for a united stand |
2019-08-15 |
[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 |