The strategies of the coalition in the yeman War.
Aerial bombardment and food war.
PDF : ▻https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/files/2018/10/Strategies-of-Coalition-in-Yemen-War.pdf
This report gives an overview not available elsewhere of the impact
of the Coalition bombing campaign on food production and
distribution in rural Yemen and on fishing along the Red Sea coast.
The timing of its release appears opportune. Press coverage of this
forgotten war has increased; there is some diplomatic and political
movement; and the report on human rights violations during the
Yemen war, prepared under the aegis of the Group of Eminent Experts, has been submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.¹
Warnings of the risk of mass starvation echo ever more shrilly.²
It is high time that citizens, parliamentarians and civil organisations
to do all they can to end a conflict now well into its fourth year. On
the 6 September, a new UN-appointed mediator had announced
discussions between two major Yemeni parties in the war (the internationally
recognized Government of Yemen led by Abd-Rabbuh
Mansour Hadi, based between al-Riyadh and Aden, and the “Salvation/Rescue Government” of Ansarallah and allies based in Sanʿaʾ, internationally designated as “the Houthi rebels” or “the de-facto power”). Following this announcement, the talks were postponed in the wake of a failure to provide certain safe passage for the delegation from Sanʿaʾ.
Mounting civilian casualties and recent atrocities resulting from
Coalition bombing have brought press and political reaction to
this long war.³ As part of the attack begun in June 2018 with the
objective of taking the city of al-Hudayda, on 2 August the central
fish market and the entrance to the main public hospital (to which
wounded persons were being taken) were attacked.⁴ In the week
