Ceasefire aimed at ending Yemen's 'forgotten war' disrupted by violence

[Jefferson23]

However, the truce - whatever its inadequacies - is the most serious attempt yet to stop the fighting that has left the country fragmented and allowed al-Qaeda to take hold of territory


The town of Taiz is under siege by the Houthis Reuters

Patrick Cockburn
Monday 11 April 2016


A shaky truce has stopped the fighting in only some parts of Yemen, as UN-backed efforts get under way to end a civil war that has killed 6,200 Yemenis and enabled al-Qaeda to set up its own mini-state in the south of the country.

Often referred to as the “forgotten war”, the conflict has torn the Yemen apart after Saudi Arabia and a coalition of nine Sunni states intervened in March last year to stop the victory of Houthi rebels in alliance with armed forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition has inflicted heavy loss of life on civilians, including 97 people, 25 of them children, who died when bombs were dropped on a crowded market place in north western Yemen on 15 March.

“People are no longer able to live because of the war which destroyed everything,” Shawqi Abdullah, a taxi driver in the capital Sanaa told a news agency as the truce took hold. “We had a calm night with no planes flying and fear of bombs. And we hope that the war ends.”

A shaky truce has stopped the fighting in only some parts of Yemen, as UN-backed efforts get under way to end a civil war that has killed 6,200 Yemenis and enabled al-Qaeda to set up its own mini-state in the south of the country.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ceasefire-aimed-at-ending-yemens-forgotten-war-dispruted-by-violence-a6979581.html

[KoKo]

1. Hard to fathom this...on top of all the Death & Destruction since "9/11"

and with the US origin on the Bombs the Saudi's drop. I get the feeling that it doesn't matter anymore in anything but a very few Progessive Media Sites and then even "Democracy Now" doesn't cover war in ME as much as it used to. It covers "Human Rights, Protests and Atrocities...but, there is no longer anyone putting these Wars into Context that Average Americans can even understand. Because, sadly, it just doesn't seem important in the USA anymore..And, it's Election Season so everything is in Lockdown.

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