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What Kind of Yemen?

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The turmoil and conflict that began between the Shiite Houthis
and Sunni Arabs in Yemen 2014 has today turned into a civil war
involving almost the entire country. What we are looking at today,
with the Arab coalition's intervention in the civil war in March this
year with air operations aimed at supporting the internationally recog-
nized government, is destruction and disaster.

The worst victims of this, as in all Islamic countries under fire, are
innocent civilians. Hundreds of civilian targets have been hit in aerial
bombardments. Thousands of civilians have been martyred.
Last Wednesday, the U.N. announced that 5,700 people, including
830 women and children, had lost their lives since March 26. Johannes
Van Der Klaauw, the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said
that 21.2 million people, 82% of the population, are in need of human-
itarian aid. Fourteen million people are deprived of adequate health
care, 1.8 million children have been unable to go to school since the

fighting began and some 320,000 children are malnourished.

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