SAUDI BARBARISM Over the last few days the House of Saud has intensified the bombardment of Sanaa, Yemen’s capital city. This is in clear retaliation for Ansarullah’s crippling attack upon their coalition base in Mareb province to the east of Sanaa and to the south of the Al Jawf oil wells and gas reserves. This…
On the morning of September 4th 2015, Ansarullah soldiers fired a lethal barrage of OTR-21 Tochka ballistic missiles at Arab Coalition forces in the Yemeni town of Ma’rib. These heavy ballistic missiles caused catastrophic damage to those targeted, the majority of deaths being among the UAE forces. Numbers of dead and wounded have been massively downplayed…
His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon Secretary-General of United Nations United Nations Headquarters 760 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017, US Re: Stop the Saudi aggression Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Months have passed since the beginning of the coalition aggression on the Yemenis people led by the Saudi government and its allies with complete disregard to the…
As Cameron drones on about drones and justifies proposals for mass murder as self defence, here is a reminder of what happens when these creatures are given free rein. Are we going to wait to read the same epitaph for Syria & Yemen or are we actually, really going to do something to prevent it…
“Yemen today displays an example of courage and lucidity to the world, and its heroic and tragic struggle for independence, despite the shameful abandonment of the entire world – with the exception of Iran and Hezbollah –, honours the Arab world and all humanity by its example, like the struggle of the Palestinian people.” While…
In the last four months of devastating war in my country, and in my years as a journalist before this conflict began, I have seen and written about many terrible things. But nothing prepared me for this. On July 24, my uncle, my aunt and their five children – the oldest of them 16 and…
Amir Askari Yahyavi ~ ” The Yemeni people have through the machinations of a coalition of barbarians in suits been exposed to perdition. I condemn the tabloids to hell for their complicity in imposing this mean, cruel existence of the Yemeni people, through the lies, false castigations and the whitewashing of the culprits for this…
Samia Al-Ansi (36). She works in the humanitarian sector as a country logistics manager in Sana’a. And one day she might be a writer of short stories. Her text below gives you a taste of her talent. “I have lived in my own bubble. My eyes used to be closed during the Arab spring, I didn’t want to face the…
Yemenis want to be heard. They need to be heard. Thus I have asked Yemeni friends of mine, men and women, to tell their stories, to give a personal account of their experiences of the war in Yemen and to send me pictures that illustrate their texts. I will post them here on this website, one by one.…
Cluster bombs have been banned by 116 countries. Yet one cluster weapon, made in America, is being used on the battlefield in Yemen, dangerously close to civilians. A Yemeni man described the chaos that accompanied an air strike near his village on a Monday morning in April, the day of the weekly market. “Hundreds of people from the surrounding villages were in al-Amar…
The Wall Will Fall 