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Sana’a based human rights organisation INSAN, reveals
News – Yemen: Insan Organization for Rights and Freedom announced, Wednesday, that the number of civilian abductees in the prisons of the US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries is about 1,200, including women and children, during the years 2021 – 2023. The organization indicated that there are civilian detainees whose physical and psychological health has deteriorated,…
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The Day of Nakba
Support Palestine in the 75-year-old struggle against the Apartheid regime. Yemen is with Palestine #Nakba Never forget the toxic role of the UK and the United Nations in the creation of this catastrophe.
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BIDEN IS SELLING WEAPONS TO THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD’S AUTOCRACIES
Despite the White House’s rhetoric about supporting global democracy, the U.S. sold weapons in 2022 to 57 percent of the world’s authoritarian regimes. U.S. arms sales in 2022 exceeded Trump-era highs. In Biden’s first full fiscal year as president, weapons sales from the United States to other countries reached $206 billion, according to the State…
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INTENTFUL VIOLATIONS OF THE LAWS OF WAR
Five years ago today, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition conducted an airstrike on Saada. The investigation following failed attack proves that the coalition breaches deliberately International Humanitarian Law. The Laws of War have been created to minimize harm caused to civilians during armed conflicts. Under the Laws of War, all involved parties are obliged to abide…
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Yemeni civilians stranded in Sudan
“Saudi-backed Yemeni Embassy abandons families in Sudan as war continues to rage… the number of stranded Yemenis in the city of Port Sudan reached 5,930 as of last Friday, including 1,357 children and 1,571 women, representing 200 families and 1,500 students.” Read the full report by HodHod Yemen News here.
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The Abs Prison Strike on 12 May 2015 – Yemen Bellingcat investigates
Eight years ago today, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition striked a prison in Abs, killing between 13 to 40 people, including children. “Open sources appear to indicate the casualties included inmates at the detention facility.” Initially, the coalition forces denied the attack, and as always rejected any responsibility. However, in the course of independent investigations carried…
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a new war in the making
The video footage delineates classified documents from the United States Secretary of Defence, stating “This is the memo that describes how we are going to take out 7 countries in 5 years. Starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and, finishing off, Iran.” The US is definitely not done in Sudan. The…
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When warlords declare entire cities military targets
On May 8, 2015, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition declared the cities of Saada and Marran to be military targets, followed by an intense and indiscriminate bombing campaign lasting for several months.In the wake of the bombing frenzy, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition attacked residential houses, countless markets, food/wheat storages, schools, petrol stations, mosques, wells, and many…
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The Ancient Yemen Digital Atlas (AYDA) and German complicity in the Yemen war
The Ancient Yemen Digital Atlas (AYDA) is a digital heritage information system for this crisis region to protect and preserve Yemen’s cultural heritage.The aim is, ‘to register digitally all the known monuments and sites and primarily the country’s antique sites in an internet-based heritage information system.’ Appendix Disclaimer: The Ancient Yemen Digital Atlas (AYDA) is…
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Cultural heritage in times of war
There are only a few good reports and footage released by leading scholars or entities on the deliberate and willful destruction and plundering of Yemen’s cultural heritage. One of these reports launched in 2017 is stating, “It is difficult to rationalize destruction of cultural heritage in any context, and even more so in this land…