This is an incomplete balance of an utterly unnecessary war on the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Yemen.

A coalition of majority sunni countries Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, and Pakistan, led by Saudi Arabia, with the unconditional support of US, UK and other Western Nations invaded Yemen with the pretext of restoring the Riyadh-friedly Hadi regime. The megalomaniacs claimed to achieve their objectives within weeks. A United Nations mandate [UNSCR2216 Yemen], which was invoked allegedly to prevent arms flow to the Houthis, has put the country under a totalitarian air, sea and land embargo destroying the countries economy and health and social infrastructure. Some outlets, such as the Yemen data project, state that over 25.000 Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes have been carried out using US, UK, Canadian, French German, Spanish, Brasilian, Italian bombs, missiles, cluster munitions, in war planes provide by the same Western countries. These are cluster bombs, which are internationally prohibited. However, this count seems to be an underestimation; the real figure is probably ten times higher. In October 2016, the indriscriminate destruction of civilian infrastructure led to the worst Cholera epidemi emergency in recorded history, claiming several thousands of lives, with more than a million of confirmed cases. At the same time, the US Government had been carrying out their own indiscriminate airstrikes on the lookout for Al Qaeda members, claiming additionally civilian lives. The war has left 4.5 million people internally displaced, who have no chance to return to their homes. Over 50% of health facilities have been destroyed, 2900 schools are out of use, and about 6 million children out of school; 24 million people are dependent on humanitarian aid, and 8 million of these are living with severe forms of hunger. Children under the age of five are hit hardest; 2.3 million are acutely malnourished, and half a million of which are at risk of starvation. Millions of pregnant and lacteting women are malnourished, which impacts the unborn fetuses’ and infants’ development severely. According to the United Nations 377.000 Yemeni died by the end of 2021. However, this count is far from accurate when compared with the statistics established in North Western Yemen. There, the Ministry for Human Rights recently revealed that the war has claimed 1.5 million Yemeni lives through direct and indirect causes of war.

Yemen’s gas and oil fields are located in the occupied Governorates of Yemen, which are under Saudia Arabia and UAE-backed STC rule. Since the invasion, Saudi Arabia and UEA have illegally annected these commodities, and they are selling the goods on the international markets, with the proceeds being deposited in their respective Central Banks, leaving Yemen impoverished. On top of this, the members of the internationally recognised presidential council are fighting each other for power and dominance over the oil and gas fields and geopolitical strategic gains, again causing civilian casualties.

Yemen, being the poorest Arab Nation, has been defending itself against the richest power houses in the East, the South and the West. Their assailants, being immeasurably rich, have bought corporate media, preventing access to accurate information. Instead, we are being served with lies produced by The Guardian, The Independent, Financial Times, and the likes of it. Most people have never, even once in their lives, heard that there is a country called Yemen, let alone, Yemen being “the worst humanitarian crisis”.

There is a new world order crystallising on the horizon. Remains to judge whether Yemen would benefit from this or not.