The last United Nations-brokered truce in Yemen ended in October of 2022. While there have not been significant airstrikes or major military offensives since the truce began in April 2022, the warring parties—including Houthi forces, the Yemeni government, and the Saudi- and United Arab Emirates (UAE)-led coalition—have continued to commit serious international human rights and humanitarian law violations in Yemen.
Violations include unlawful attacks that have killed civilians; restrictions on freedom of movement and humanitarian access to and from Taizz, Yemen’s third-largest city; arbitrary detentions; and forced internal displacement. Saudi border guards have carried out mass killings of Ethiopian migrants at the Yemeni border, which may amount to crimes against humanity.
(2024 report)
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/yemen
This is by far one of the worst conflicts that has been happening for many years, and its still very much ongoing, yet little to none is reported by press. Over the many years Yeman has been ignored by our media.
A place that has seen hundreds of thousands killed, Saudi Aribia and the coalition get their "weapons" mainly from UK and other countries and yet not one big protest has happened.
Just makes you think, or it should make you think, why does one conflict get news coverage and why does another worse conflict get mainly ignored? Why do people take to the streets to protest one conflict while a worse conflict gets ignored? Why do students take a stance about their government supplying another with weapons that are used in a conflict and demand a boycott while they same students have ignored what happens to another countries civilians?
Easy answer the media hasn't manipulated them by feeding them bias reporting. UK is the largest weapons exporter that supply UAE they weapons kill and have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Yet media and people are silent, not one protest, not one boycott mentioned in parliament, not one MP going on camera to say supply and support must stop.
Sidenote:
UAE are also involved in the Sudan crisis - UAE supply weapons, they get from UK, to groups inside Sudan. They groups have been killing whole viliges << again mostly unreported and silence from people.
The exact numbers of civilians killed in Yemen is actually unknown since numbers on deaths hasn't been reported officially since 2016 - in 2020/21 estimates were around 300.000+ and the war has raged on since then - some say its around 600.000+
The hypocrisy is astonishing.
Millions of people face slaughter or starvation – the UK must stop sending billions in arms exports to Saudi Arabia
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/101240347996114932
Yemen on brink of losing entire generation of children to hunger, UN warns
Houthi rule is “a combination of North Korea, Iran, Taliban, and with the constitution of George Orwell’s ‘1984,’
Except, unlike the Iranians or the North Koreans, they don’t practice any state responsibility, because they don’t have international recognition, which is also international commitments and norms and rules. They have no reference book for anything.
9yrs
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/111854517211309729
Think about that - all they years and mostly ignored by international community