The World Has Left Yemen to Die
▻https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/dispatches-yemen-health-crisis/?sf219487588=1
The World Has Left Yemen to Die
Exclusive photos give a rare look inside the country, where civil war has trapped civilians in a life of violence and disease.
By Nina Strochlic
Photographs by Matteo Bastianelli
L’#Arabie_saoudite envisage un cessez-le-feu au #Yémen | ICI Radio-Canada.ca
▻https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1332181/larabie-saoudite-envisage-un-cessez-le-feu-au-yemen
Les alliés occidentaux de l’Arabie, notamment ceux qui fournissent des armes et des renseignements à la coalition, font pression en faveur d’un règlement du conflit.
D’après deux des sources interrogées par Reuters, les frappes saoudiennes contre les positions des Houthis ont considérablement diminué et il y a de bonnes raisons d’être optimiste.
Yémen/ventes d’armes : 14 ONG dénoncent la convocation par la DGSI de l’ONG ASER
27.09.2019
▻https://www.ldh-france.org/yemen-ventes-darmes-14-ong-denoncent-la-convocation-par-la-dgsi-de-long-
Communiqué commun
« L’intimidation de représentants de la société civile est une atteinte grave à notre démocratie » – (ONG)
Paris, 27 septembre 2019 – 14 ONG humanitaires et de défense des droits humains dénoncent la convocation par les services de renseignement français du président d’une ONG française demandant un véritable contrôle des ventes d’armes françaises à l’étranger.
Benoît Muracciole, président d’Action Sécurité Ethique Républicaines (ASER), est convoqué par la direction générale de la sécurité intérieure (DGSI) le 2 octobre prochain, en raison d’une suspicion « d’avoir commis ou tenté de commettre l’infraction de compromission du secret de défense nationale. »
Des journalistes avaient déjà fait l’objet de convocations similaires par la DGSI, comme Geoffrey Livolsi et Mathias Destal du média d’investigation Disclose, ainsi que Benoît Collombat de la cellule investigation de Radio France en mai dernier, pour avoir publié des notes classées « confidentiel défense » de la Direction du renseignement militaire (DRM).
Celles-ci confirmaient que des équipements militaires français achetés par l’Arabie saoudite et les Émirats arabes unis sont engagés dans la guerre au Yémen, avec un risque majeur d’utilisation dans des attaques illégales contre des populations civiles, ce que nos organisations mettent en lumière depuis déjà plus d’un an.
Benoît Muracciole, Président d’ASER, est inquiété pour avoir utilisé de manière responsable des informations publiques essentielles à une action juridique contre le gouvernement français, informations qui n’ont, en outre, révélé aucune opération militaire française en cours, ni mis aucun personnel français en danger. (...)
ONG signataires : Acat-France, Action contre la faim, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Care France, Fédération international des droits de l’Homme (FIDH), Handicap International – Humanity & Inclusion, Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH), Médecins du monde, Observatoire des armements, Oxfam France, Salam for Yemen, Sherpa, SumOfUs, Yemen Solidarity Network
#armes #armement #armes_françaises #Yémen #guerre #conflit
#intimidation #DGSI
Armes pour l’Arabie saoudite : l’intenable position de la France | Middle East Eye édition française
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/en-bref/armes-pour-larabie-saoudite-lintenable-position-de-la-france
« Après, il faut bien comprendre ce que représente l’Arabie saoudite sur le marché de l’armement. Elle pèse près de 70 milliards de dollars. Si les pays arrêtaient de commercer avec elle, c’est tout le marché qui s’écroulerait. Et avec les Émirats arabes unis, les deux pays font tourner l’industrie militaire française depuis vingt-cinq ans ! »
En 2017, le Proche et le Moyen-Orient ont représenté quelque 60 % des commandes de matériel militaire français sur un total de 6,9 milliards d’euros, dont 701 millions pour les Émirats et 626 millions pour l’Arabie saoudite. La France a par ailleurs livré pour 1,38 milliard d’euros d’armement à Riyad en 2017, faisant de l’Arabie saoudite le deuxième plus gros client de la France dans ce secteur l’an dernier après l’Égypte.
Akram Kharief, spécialiste des questions d’armement et animateur du blog Menadefense.net
#Yémen #Arabie_Saoudite #vente_armes #armes_françaises #enjeux_économiques #contrôle_démocratique
À l’ONU, la France muette sur les droits de l’homme en Arabie saoudite
Par Clothilde Mraffko - Vendredi 27 septembre 2019 | Middle East Eye édition française
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/en-bref/lonu-la-france-muette-sur-les-droits-de-lhomme-en-arabie-saoudite
Le 23 septembre, le Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU a publié une déclaration qui s’inquiète des violations des droits humains dans le royaume saoudien. La plupart des grands pays européens l’ont signée, mais pas la France (...)
La France, elle, affirme que « les armes françaises dont disposent les membres de la coalition sont placées pour l’essentiel en position défensive » et qu’elle n’a « pas connaissance de victimes civiles résultant de leur utilisation sur le théâtre yéménite », où la guerre a déjà fait plus de 10 000 morts.
Y’a une chaine YouTube qui n’a pour activité que de référencer les utilisations d’armes françaises au Yémen. Ils trouvent le type d’arme, le lieu, la date, les participants. Je retrouve ça pour plus tard.
Retrouvé : disclose ngo ▻https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC76pM1Auet3YolJ5vYLeINQ
Et leur Playlist Yemen papers ▻https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLev5pUffyQjox2q62502fm1fmIi9wayJU
Rendre justice à Jamal Khashoggi
Entretien avec Agnès Callamard
Alain Gresh > Agnès Callamard > 1er octobre 2019
▻https://orientxxi.info/magazine/rendre-justice-a-jamal-khashoggi,3317
(...)A. G. – Quelles ont été les réactions à la publication de votre rapport ?
A. C.— Les réactions au sein du Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations unies (OHCHR) et dans la presse ont été plutôt positives. Certains États ont dit des choses très fortes, comme le Canada et l’Australie. En ce qui concerne la France, elle fait partie des États favorables à revenir à un « business as usual ».
Aucune action concrète n’a suivi la réunion du Conseil. Au contraire, le sommet du G20 à Osaka, tenu quelques semaines après mon rapport, a donné lieu au spectacle affligeant du président des États-Unis embrassant MBS. On a eu aussi droit à une photo de fin de réunion avec, au centre le président Donald Trump et MBS se serrant la main et autour tous les autres chefs d’État faisant un petit signe à la caméra. C’est un manque de respect pour toutes les personnes frappées par la répression en Arabie saoudite, pour les principes mêmes dont se réclame le G20 et pour le travail que j’ai accompli. Aucun chef d’État n’a tenté de se démarquer de cette instrumentalisation orchestrée par le président américain et le prince saoudien.
A. G. – Et le prochain G20 est censé avoir lieu à Riyad en 2020 ? (...)
VIDEO. Une frégate saoudienne dont la maintenance est assurée par la #France participe bien au blocus du Yémen
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/proche-orient/yemen/video-une-fregate-saoudienne-entretenue-par-la-france-identifiee-au-lar
Le Yémen est en proie à un conflit sanglant dans lequel des milliers de #civils sont morts au cours de frappes de missiles ou de faim. L’état de #famine est aggravé en partie par le #blocus naval imposé par la coalition internationale menée par l’#Arabie_saoudite.
Yemeni Houthis Claim to Have Captured ’Saudi Army Officers’ in Attack Near Joint Border - Sputnik International
▻https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201909281076912517-unconfirmed-reports-say-houthis-attack-saudi-border-
Yemen’s Houthi movement said in a statement that it had conducted an attack near the border with the southern Saudi region of Najran and captured several “army officers”, “thousands” of enemy troops and “hundreds of vehicles”.
The Saudi Arabian authorities haven’t yet commented on the reports.
Une opération d’Ansarullah dans le sud d’Arabie : des centaines de Km libérés… des milliers de soldats faits prisonniers – Site de la chaîne AlManar-Liban
▻https://french.almanar.com.lb/150922
Ce samedi, le Gouvernement de salut national yéménite a rejeté la proposition de l’Arabie saoudite d’établissement un cessez-le-feu partiel au Yémen affirmant qu’il n’acceptera pas moins d’une cessation complète de l’agression et du blocus imposé par l’Arabie saoudite.
Cette position a été exprimée par Dayfallah al-Chami le porte-parole de ce gouvernement dont le siège se trouve dans la capitale Sanaa, selon l’agence de presse iranienne Fars News.
Evoquant les informations de presse américaine, notamment celles du New York Times, et qui ont fait état que Riyad a accepté un cessez-le-feu partiel, M. Machat l’a qualifié de « manipulation destinée à échapper aux pressions internationales et humanitaires qui refusent la poursuite de l’offensive ».
Yemen’s Houthis say attacked Saudi border frontline, no immediate Saudi confirmation - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemne-security-idUSKBN1WD0FO
Ou, au choix, pas d’infirmation saoudienne plusieurs heures après.
Ne rêvons pas mais tout de même !
La situation a maintenant atteint un point où on entend beaucoup de rumeurs à travers le Golfe persique sur la possibilité d’un scénario spectaculaire : l’organisation par les Houthis d’une ruée à travers le désert arabe pour capturer La Mecque et Médine, coordonnée avec un soulèvement de masse chiite dans la ceinture pétrolière orientale. Ce n’est pas vraiment tiré par les cheveux : des choses plus étranges se sont parfois produites au Moyen-Orient. Après tout, les Saoudiens ne sont même pas en mesure de gagner une simple rixe de bar. C’est d’ailleurs pourquoi ils comptent sur des mercenaires.
Par Pepe Escobar – Le 18 septembre 2019 – Source Asiatimes.com
▻https://lesakerfrancophone.fr/comment-les-rebelles-houthis-ont-renverse-lechiquier
Houthis release pictures showing assault on Saudi troops - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZw5taiYMqw
Café et climat : La culture du café face aux effets du changement climatique - Toute l’actualité des Outre-mer à 360° - Toute l’actualité des Outre-mer à 360°
▻http://outremers360.com/economie/cafe-et-climat-la-culture-du-cafe-face-aux-effets-du-changement-climat
Le #café compte environ 80 espèces (#Typica, #Maragogype, #Bourbon, #Blue_Mountain ou #Mundo_Novo….) , mais ce sont l’#Arabica et le #Robusta qui s’imposent. L’arabica – un marché évalué à 16 milliards de dollars – est le plus consommé au monde et pourrait disparaître à l’état sauvage d’ici 2080. Car aujourd’hui, c’est toute la production d’Amérique centrale qui se trouve menacée par la rouille orangée causée par un champignon. Mais la rouille n’est pas la seule menace pour le café. La chaleur a favorisé les attaques dans les zones d’altitude, liée à l’appauvrissement génétique des plantations. A son origine, en #Ethiopie, le café sauvage poussait à l’ombre. Dès le 14ème siècle au #Yemen, on le remet au soleil, et la moitié du café dans le monde aujourd’hui est cultivée industriellement, en plein soleil, comme au #Brésil. « Les jours de ces #méthodes de production pourraient être comptés, en raison des changements climatiques » nous met en garde Hervé Etienne (CIRAD).
How Dare #Samantha_Power Scrub the #Yemen War From Her Memoir - In These Times
▻http://inthesetimes.com/article/22072/samantha-power-yemen-war-obama-administration-education-idealist
Despite this glaring omission, her memoir has received mostly positive reviews that fail to criticize her for helping turn Yemen into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Yémen : les images rares d’une guerre qui embarrasse le gouvernement français - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNIBrg4HuU
👁 Tous les dimanches à 11h, un nouveau documentaire sur la chaîne de Brut
Une frégate saoudienne entretenue par la France identifiée au large du Yémen
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/geopolitique/une-fregate-saoudienne-entretenue-par-la-france-identifiee-au-large-du
Une pièce à charge supplémentaire pour « Made in France » / #FrenchArms (cf ►https://seenthis.net/messages/774555)
...et le gouvernement français toujours aussi sans vergogne :
Au début du mois de septembre, des experts des Nations unies (ONU) sur le Yémen ont fait état, dans un rapport de la “multitude de crimes de guerre” qui auraient été commis par les diverses parties depuis le début du conflit. Les experts précisent que de nombreux cas peuvent “entraîner la condamnation de personnes pour crimes de guerre si un tribunal indépendant et compétent en est saisi".
Contactés, Naval Group et CMN n’ont pas répondu à nos questions.
Les services du Premier ministre ont fait savoir de leur côté que "la France exerce un contrôle des exportations des matériels de guerre strict, transparent et responsable".
Damage At Saudi Oil Plant Points To Well Targeted Swarm Attack (htt...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9681352
Damage At Saudi Oil Plant Points To Well Targeted Swarm Attack
#Abqaiq #Saudi #Arabia #Yemen #Oil #Plant #politics #international #MoA ......
"The targeting for this attack was done with detailed knowledge of the process and its dependencies.
The north arrow in those pictures points to the left. The visible shadows confirm the direction. The holes in the tanks are on the western side. They were attacked from the west.
The hits were extremely precise. The Yemeni armed forces claimed it attacked the facility with 10 drones (or cruise missiles). But the hits on these targets look like neither. A total of 17 hits with such precise targeting lets me assume that these were some kind of drones or missiles with man-in-the-loop control. They may have been launched from within Saudi Arabia. (...)
The Houthis Change the Rules | رأي اليوم
By Abdel Bari Atwan | 16 septembre 2019
▻https://www.raialyoum.com/index.php/the-houthis-change-the-rules
(...) Houthi Spokesman Yahya Sarie’ said the operation was carried out after a “careful process of intelligence surveillance” of the sites. He did not elaborate about how and by whom this surveillance was carried out, nor comment on this apparent breakthrough in the Houthis’ intelligence capabilities. Neither did he explain how, if the drones were launched from Yemeni territory, they managed to make the 1,000 km-plus journey without refuelling or being detected.
He did, however, make a point of praising “honourable and freedom-loving people” inside Saudi Arabia for their contribution to the operation. This sounded like a reference to the participation of members of Saudi Arabia’s persecuted Shia minority, who are concentrated in the Eastern Province, in the attack, or at least in the intelligence/surveillance process that preceded it.
The drones seem unlikely to have been launched from within Saudi Arabia itself. It would have been very difficult to smuggle such large devices into the kingdom or assemble them there. They were probably fired from a neighbouring country: Iraq is increasingly being identified as the most likely source (the drones that struck the east-west pipeline were also widely reported to have come from there). There has also been speculation they may have been clandestinely launched from Bahrain, or from a ship sailing off the Saudi Gulf coast.
But the precise source of the missiles is immaterial. Since the start of the Saudi-led war on Yemen, the Houthis have become increasingly closely aligned with the regional ‘resistance axis’ comprising Iran and Syria and their allies in Iraq, Lebanon and other Arab countries. They no longer attempt to conceal this: their envoys now visit Tehran openly and their leaders express pride about their relationship with the Islamic Republic. .
Sarie’, meanwhile, warned that Ansarullah’s list of targets inside Saudi Arabia is “growing by the day”, meaning that more such attacks can be expected until Riyadh ends its war and lifts its blockade of Yemen. (...)
La dictature saoudienne ferait bien de ne pas sous-estimer les moyens militaires des Yéménites
Patrick Cockburn - 17 septembre 2019 – The Independent – Traduction : Chronique de Palestine
▻http://www.chroniquepalestine.com/dictature-saoudienne-ferait-bien-ne-pas-sous-estimer-moyens-mili
L’attaque de drones sur l’Arabie saoudite – qui a entraîné une forte réduction de sa production de pétrole – pourrait être un signe d’une réévaluation des règles du jeu lors des guerres à venir entre pays riches et pays pauvres, écrit Patrick Cockburn.
L’Arabie saoudite a toujours sous-estimé les capacités militaires des Houthis au Yémen. En mars 2015, le ministre saoudien de la Défense, Mohammed bin Salman, nommé plus tard prince héritier, a lancé une campagne de bombardement qui se voulait rapide et décisive au Yémen, visant à chasser les Houthis – une campagne toujours en cours quatre ans et demi plus tard.
Les Saoudiens ont évidemment été surpris par la capacité des Houthis à utiliser un drone à longue distance, car les drones dépendent du système GPS pour localiser leur cible. Les signaux peuvent en être bloquées, explique un spécialiste de la guerre des drones – qui ne voulait pas être nommé – mais les Saoudiens n’ont pas réussi à le faire à Abqaiq et Khurais – les sites des attaques sans précédent de samedi – malgré leur importance cruciale pour l’industrie pétrolière saoudienne.
La compétence militaire des Houthi est le fruit d’une guerre qui dure. Les Saoudiens ont soutenu toutes ces dernières années le « gouvernement » yéménite dans six guerres distinctes contre les tribus houthies du nord du Yémen, qui pratiquent une variante de l’islam chiite connu sous le nom de zaidisme. Les forces de la coalition n’ont pas réussi à vaincre les Houthis, mais les guerres ont permis à leurs combattants d’acquérir une considérable expérience militaire.
La production de #pétrole divisée par deux en #Arabie_saoudite après une attaque de #drones
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/09/15/la-production-de-petrole-divisee-par-deux-en-arabie-saoudite-apres-une-attaq
Les installations du géant pétrolier #Aramco, touchées samedi par les drones des rebelles yéménites, représentent 5 % de la production mondiale de brut. Les #Etats-Unis ont dénoncé cette attaque et accusé l’#Iran, qui dément.
Secretary Pompeo sur Twitter : “Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy. Amid all the calls for de-escalation, Iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply. There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1172963090746548225
U.S. blames Iran for Saudi oil attack, Trump says ’locked and loaded’ | Article [AMP] | Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-aramco-attacks-idUSKBN1W00SA
Plus précisément,
... a senior U.S. administration official said Iran was to blame.
Anonyme bien entendu,
Who Was Behind the Saudi Oil Attack? What the Evidence Shows - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/16/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-oil-attack.html
We analyzed the satellite photos that the Trump administration released, comparing them with independent sources when possible, to determine what they show and what they leave unclear:
The sophistication of the attack far exceeds that shown in previous attacks by the Houthis, raising the likelihood of direct Iranian involvement.
The satellite photos alone are not enough to support American claims that the strikes appeared to have come from the direction of Iran or Iraq.
There’s not enough evidence to show what kinds of weapons were used, but the precision of the strikes is consistent with a guided missile.
The Strike On Saudi Oil Facilities Was Unprecedented And It Underscores Far Greater Issues - The Drive
►https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29874/the-strike-on-saudi-oil-facilities-was-unprecedented-and-it-underscores-fa
First off, no, the direction of impacts seen in satellite photos is not any sort of conclusive evidence as to where these weapons originated from. I saw this parroted all over the place, from cable and network news to blogs over the weekend. We are talking about what are clearly extremely precise weapons here that are capable of being effectively employed at long standoff ranges.
La France en danger : où en est le renseignement ?
Eric Dénécé, Diffusé en direct le 11 sept. 2019
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx5QlspmmE8
La France en danger : où en est le renseignement ?
vers 24:00 Eric Dénécé émet de forts doutes sur l’autonomie de la diplomatie française
#Macron, #G7, le ministre iranien des Affaires étrangères Mohammad #Javad_Zarif, #John_Bolton.
Vers 34:50 #Ukraine #CIA
vers 45:50 #Arabie_Saoudite #Iran
54 : #Intelligence_économique #Alsthom
1:09:20 #Affaire_Skripal
1:11:15 #Yemen
1:14:50 seule mention de Gaza pour dire que les images sur la #Syrie étaient manipulées, et qu’on montrait à la place les destructions sur #Gaza.
1:16 frappes chimiques fausses
Eric dénécé directeur du CF2R : ▻https://www.cf2r.org/#
Il conseille de lire Le secret de l’Occident : Vers une théorie générale du progrès scientifique de David Cosandey, Flammarion
Tikun Olam sur Twitter : "Read Ran_Edelist’s terrific Maariv piece which reveals that Israeli navy missile cruisers are now intervening in the #Yemen civil war on behalf of their “Saudi pals.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/richards1052/status/1168266620491317248
▻https://m.maariv.co.il/amp/journalists/Article-715177?__twitter_impression=true
Frappe de la coalition saoudienne au Yémen : plus de 100 morts, selon la Croix-Rouge — RT en français
▻https://francais.rt.com/international/65431-frappe-coalition-saoudienne-yemen-plus-100-morts-croix-rouge
Le bilan est encore une fois très lourd au Yémen. Plus de 100 personnes sont mortes et au moins 40 autres ont été blessées ce 1er septembre dans une frappe de la coalition emmenée par Riyad, sur un centre de détention tenu par les rebelles chiites houthis, au sud de la capitale Sanaa, selon le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) au Yémen.
(...) « Nous estimons que plus de 100 personnes ont été tuées » dans cette frappe, a déclaré Franz Rauchenstein, à la tête du CICR au Yémen, qui s’est rendu sur place.
Au moins 40 blessés ont été hospitalisés dans plusieurs hôpitaux de Dhamar, selon cette même personne.
« A l’heure à laquelle nous parlons, les équipes [du CICR] sont en train de travailler sans relâche pour trouver des survivants sous les décombres [dont les chances de survie sont] très faibles », a-t-il ajouté.
Il avait plus tôt indiqué que le bâtiment ciblé était un « lieu de détention » dans lequel s’était déjà rendu le CICR à plusieurs reprises.
Sur Twitter, le CICR au Yémen a indiqué transporter 200 sacs mortuaires vers le lieu du bombardement.
De leur côté, sur leur chaîne de télévision Al-Masirah, les Houthis ont affirmé que des dizaines de personnes avaient été tuées ou blessées dans sept frappes, précisant qu’un bâtiment utilisé comme prison avait été touché.
Le conflit au Yémen, où l’Arabie saoudite mène une coalition militaire régionale depuis 2014, a fait des dizaines de milliers de morts, et trois millions de déplacés, selon les Nations unies. Cette situation a donné lieu à « la pire catastrophe humanitaire actuelle » selon l’ONU.
« 80% de la population, soit 24 millions de personnes, ont besoin d’une forme d’aide humanitaire ou de protection, dont 14,3 millions de manière urgente », assure le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires de l’ONU.
De nombreux hôpitaux ont été endommagés ou détruits par les bombardements de la coalition sous commandement saoudien. Des frappes ont en outre provoqué la mort d’innombrables civils dont beaucoup d’enfants.
En novembre 2018, l’Unicef a d’ailleurs qualifié le Yémen d’« enfer sur terre » pour les enfants, avec 1,8 million d’enfants âgés de moins de cinq ans en situation de « malnutrition aigüe ».
Le pays a été affecté par le choléra, avec plus de 2 500 morts entre avril et décembre 2017 causés par cette infection, selon les derniers chiffres officiels dont nous disposons.
La France a vendu pour 11 milliards d’euros d’armes et de matériel militaire à l’Arabie saoudite en neuf ans. Un commerce dont l’éthique est très critiquée par de nombreuses ONG.
Les #Etats-Unis préparent des pourparlers directs avec les rebelles du #Yémen
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/les-etats-unis-preparent-des-pourparlers-directs-avec-les-rebelles-du-yemen
Les Etats-Unis s’apprêtent à entamer des pourparlers directs avec les rebelles #Houthis soutenus par l’Iran pour tenter de mettre fin à la guerre qui a fait des milliers de morts au Yémen, rapporte ce mercredi le Wall Street Journal.
Ethiopians Abused on Gulf Migration Route
Ethiopians undertaking the perilous journey by boat across the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden face exploitation and torture in Yemen by a network of trafficking groups, Human Rights Watch said today. They also encounter abusive prison conditions in Saudi Arabia before being summarily forcibly deported back to Addis Ababa. Authorities in Ethiopia, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia have taken few if any measures to curb the violence migrants face, to put in place asylum procedures, or to check abuses perpetrated by their own security forces.
A combination of factors, including unemployment and other economic difficulties, drought, and human rights abuses have driven hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians to migrate over the past decade, traveling by boat over the Red Sea and then by land through Yemen to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf states are favored destinations because of the availability of employment. Most travel irregularly and do not have legal status once they reach Saudi Arabia.“Many Ethiopians who hoped for a better life in Saudi Arabia face unspeakable dangers along the journey, including death at sea, torture, and all manners of abuses,” said Felix Horne, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The Ethiopian government, with the support of its international partners, should support people who arrive back in Ethiopia with nothing but the clothes on their back and nowhere to turn for help.”
Human Rights Watch interviewed 12 Ethiopians in Addis Ababa who had been deported from Saudi Arabia between December 2018 and May 2019. Human Rights Watch also interviewed humanitarian workers and diplomats working on Ethiopia migration-related issues.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates as many as 500,000 Ethiopians were in Saudi Arabia when the Saudi government began a deportation campaign in November 2017. The Saudi authorities have arrested, prosecuted, or deported foreigners who violate labor or residency laws or those who crossed the border irregularly. About 260,000 Ethiopians, an average of 10,000 per month, were deported from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia between May 2017 and March 2019, according to the IOM, and deportations have continued.
An August 2 Twitter update by Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said that police had arrested 3.6 million people, including 2.8 million for violations of residency rules, 557,000 for labor law violations, and 237,000 for border violations. In addition, authorities detained 61,125 people for crossing the border into Saudi Arabia illegally, 51 percent of them Ethiopians, and referred more than 895,000 people for deportation. Apart from illegal border crossing, these figures are not disaggregated by nationality.
Eleven of the 12 people interviewed who had been deported had engaged with smuggling and trafficking networks that are regionally linked across Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland state, the self-declared autonomous state of Somaliland, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. Traffickers outside of Ethiopia, particularly in Yemen, often used violence or threats to extort ransom money from migrants’ family members or contacts, those interviewed told Human Rights Watch. The 12th person was working in Saudi Arabia legally but was deported after trying to help his sister when she arrived illegally.
Those interviewed described life-threatening journeys as long as 24 hours across the Gulf of Aden or the Red Sea to reach Yemen, in most cases in overcrowded boats, with no food or water, and prevented from moving around by armed smugglers.
“There were 180 people on the boat, but 25 died,” one man said. “The boat was in trouble and the waves were hitting it. It was overloaded and about to sink so the dallalas [an adaptation of the Arabic word for “middleman” or “broker”] picked some out and threw them into the sea, around 25.”
Interviewees said they were met and captured by traffickers upon arrival in Yemen. Five said the traffickers physically assaulted them to extort payments from family members or contacts in Ethiopia or Somalia. While camps where migrants were held capture were run by Yemenis, Ethiopians often carried out the abuse. In many cases, relatives said they sold assets such as homes or land to obtain the ransom money.
After paying the traffickers or escaping, the migrants eventually made their way north to the Saudi-Yemen border, crossing in rural, mountainous areas. Interviewees said Saudi border guards fired at them, killing and injuring others crossing at the same time, and that they saw dead bodies along the crossing routes. Human Rights Watch has previously documented Saudi border guards shooting and killing migrants crossing the border.
“At the border there are many bodies rotting, decomposing,” a 26-year-old man said: “It is like a graveyard.”
Six interviewees said they were apprehended by Saudi border police, while five successfully crossed the border but were later arrested. They described abusive prison conditions in several facilities in southern Saudi Arabia, including inadequate food, toilet facilities, and medical care; lack of sanitation; overcrowding; and beatings by guards.
Planes returning people deported from Saudi Arabia typically arrive in Addis Ababa either at the domestic terminal or the cargo terminal of Bole International Airport. Several humanitarian groups conduct an initial screening to identify the most vulnerable cases, with the rest left to their own devices. Aid workers in Ethiopia said that deportees often arrive with no belongings and no money for food, transportation, or shelter. Upon arrival, they are offered little assistance to help them deal with injuries or psychological trauma, or to support transportation to their home communities, in some cases hundreds of kilometers from Addis Ababa.
Human Rights Watch learned that much of the migration funding from Ethiopia’s development partners is specifically earmarked to manage migration along the routes from the Horn of Africa to Europe and to assist Ethiopians being returned from Europe, with very little left to support returnees from Saudi Arabia.
“Saudi Arabia has summarily returned hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians to Addis Ababa who have little to show for their journey except debts and trauma,” Horne said. “Saudi Arabia should protect migrants on its territory and under its control from traffickers, ensure there is no collusion between its agents and these criminals, and provide them with the opportunity to legally challenge their detention and deportation.”
All interviews were conducted in Amharic, Tigrayan, or Afan Oromo with translation into English. The interviewees were from the four regions of SNNPR (Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region), Oromia, Amhara, and Tigray. These regions have historically produced the bulk of Ethiopians migrating abroad. To protect interviewees from possible reprisals, pseudonyms are being used in place of their real names. Human Rights Watch wrote to the Ethiopian and Saudi governments seeking comment on abuses described by Ethiopian migrants along the Gulf migration route, but at the time of writing neither had responded.
Dangerous Boat Journey
Most of the 11 people interviewed who entered Saudi Arabia without documents described life-threatening boat journeys across the Red Sea from Djibouti, Somaliland, or Puntland to Yemen. They described severely overcrowded boats, beatings, and inadequate food or water on journeys that ranged from 4 to 24 hours. These problems were compounded by dangerous weather conditions or encounters with Saudi/Emirati-led coalition naval vessels patrolling the Yemeni coast.
“Berhanu” said that Somali smugglers beat people on his boat crossing from Puntland: “They have a setup they use where they place people in spots by weight to keep the boat balanced. If you moved, they beat you.” He said that his trip was lengthened when smugglers were forced to turn the boat around after spotting a light from a naval vessel along the Yemeni coast and wait several hours for it to pass.
Since March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of countries in a military campaign against the Houthi armed group in Yemen. As part of its campaign the Saudi/Emirati-led coalition has imposed a naval blockade on Houthi-controlled Yemeni ports, purportedly to prevent Houthi rebels from importing weapons by sea, but which has also restricted the flow of food, fuel, and medicine to civilians in the country, and included attacks on civilians at sea. Human Rights Watch previously documented a helicopter attack in March 2017 by coalition forces on a boat carrying Somali migrants and refugees returning from Yemen, killing at least 32 of the 145 Somali migrants and refugees on board and one Yemeni civilian.
Exploitation and Abuses in Yemen
Once in war-torn Yemen, Ethiopian migrants said they faced kidnappings, beatings, and other abuses by traffickers trying to extort ransom money from them or their family members back home.
This is not new. Human Rights Watch, in a 2014 report, documented abuses, including torture, of migrants in detention camps in Yemen run by traffickers attempting to extort payments. In 2018, Human Rights Watch documented how Yemeni guards tortured and raped Ethiopian and other Horn of Africa migrants at a detention center in Aden and worked in collaboration with smugglers to send them back to their countries of origin. Recent interviews by Human Rights Watch indicate that the war in Yemen has not significantly affected the abuses against Ethiopians migrating through Yemen to Saudi Arabia. If anything, the conflict, which escalated in 2015, has made the journey more dangerous for migrants who cross into an area of active fighting.
Seven of the 11 irregular migrants interviewed said they faced detention and extortion by traffickers in Yemen. This occurred in many cases as soon as they reached shore, as smugglers on boats coordinated with the Yemeni traffickers. Migrants said that Yemeni smuggling and trafficking groups always included Ethiopians, often one from each of Oromo, Tigrayan, and Amhara ethnic groups, who generally were responsible for beating and torturing migrants to extort payments. Migrants were generally held in camps for days or weeks until they could provide ransom money, or escape. Ransom payments were usually made by bank transfers from relatives and contacts back in Ethiopia.
“Abebe” described his experience:
When we landed… [the traffickers] took us to a place off the road with a tent. Everyone there was armed with guns and they threw us around like garbage. The traffickers were one Yemeni and three Ethiopians – one Tigrayan, one Amhara, and one Oromo…. They started to beat us after we refused to pay, then we had to call our families…. My sister [in Ethiopia] has a house, and the traffickers called her, and they fired a bullet near me that she could hear. They sold the house and sent the money [40,000 Birr, US $1,396].
“Tesfalem”, said that he was beaten by Yemenis and Ethiopians at a camp he believes was near the port city of Aden:
They demanded money, but I said I don’t have any. They told me to make a call, but I said I don’t have relatives. They beat me and hung me on the wall by one hand while standing on a chair, then they kicked the chair away and I was swinging by my arm. They beat me on my head with a stick and it was swollen and bled.
He escaped after three months, was detained in another camp for three months more, and finally escaped again.
“Biniam” said the men would take turns beating the captured migrants: “The [Ethiopian] who speaks your language beats you, those doing the beating were all Ethiopians. We didn’t think of fighting back against them because we were so tired, and they would kill you if you tried.”
Two people said that when they landed, the traffickers offered them the opportunity to pay immediately to travel by car to the Saudi border, thereby avoiding the detention camps. One of them, “Getachew,” said that he paid 1,500 Birr (US $52) for the car and escaped mistreatment.
Others avoided capture when they landed, but then faced the difficult 500 kilometer journey on foot with few resources while trying to avoid capture.
Dangers faced by Yemeni migrants traveling north were compounded for those who ran into areas of active fighting between Houthi forces and groups aligned with the Saudi/Emirati-led coalition. Two migrants said that their journey was delayed, one by a week, the other by two months, to avoid conflict areas.
Migrants had no recourse to local authorities and did not report abuses or seek assistance from them. Forces aligned with the Yemeni government and the Houthis have also detained migrants in poor conditions, refused access to protection and asylum procedures, deported migrants en masse in dangerous conditions, and exposed them to abuse. In April 2018, Human Rights Watch reported that Yemeni government officials had tortured, raped, and executed migrants and asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa in a detention center in the southern port city of Aden. The detention center was later shut down.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced in May that it had initiated a program of voluntary humanitarian returns for irregular Ethiopian migrants held by Yemeni authorities at detention sites in southern Yemen. IOM said that about 5,000 migrants at three sites were held in “unsustainable conditions,” and that the flights from Aden to Ethiopia had stalled because the Saudi/Emirati-led coalition had failed to provide the flights the necessary clearances. The coalition controls Yemen’s airspace.
Crossing the Border; Abusive Detention inside Saudi Arabia
Migrants faced new challenges attempting to cross the Saudi-Yemen border. The people interviewed said that the crossing points used by smugglers are in rural, mountainous areas where the border separates Yemen’s Saada Governorate and Saudi Arabia’s Jizan Province. Two said that smugglers separated Ethiopians by their ethnic group and assigned different groups to cross at different border points.
Ethiopian migrants interviewed were not all able to identify the locations where they crossed. Most indicated points near the Yemeni mountain villages Souq al-Ragu and ‘Izlat Al Thabit, which they called Ragu and Al Thabit. Saudi-aligned media have regularly characterized Souq al-Ragu as a dangerous town from which drug smugglers and irregular migrants cross into Saudi Arabia.
Migrants recounted pressures to pay for the crossing by smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia. “Abdi” said he stayed in Souq al-Ragu for 15 days and finally agreed to carry across a 25 kilogram sack of khat in exchange for 500 Saudi Riyals (US$133). Khat is a mild stimulant grown in the Ethiopian highlands and Yemen; it is popular among Yemenis and Saudis, but illegal in Saudi Arabia.
“Badessa” described Souq al-Ragu as “the crime city:”
You don’t know who is a trafficker, who is a drug person, but everybody has an angle of some sort. Even Yemenis are afraid of the place, it is run by Ethiopians. It is also a burial place; bodies are gathered of people who had been shot along the border and then they’re buried there. There is no police presence.
Four of the eleven migrants who crossed the border on foot said Saudi border guards shot at them during their crossings, sometimes after ordering them to stop and other times without warning. Some said they encountered dead bodies along the way. Six said they were apprehended by Saudi border guards or drug police at the border, while five were arrested later.
“Abebe” said that Saudi border guards shot at his group as they crossed from Izlat Al Thabit:
They fired bullets, and everyone scattered. People fleeing were shot, my friend was shot in the leg…. One person was shot in the chest and killed and [the Saudi border guards] made us carry him to a place where there was a big excavator. They didn’t let us bury him; the excavator dug a hole and they buried him.
Berhanu described the scene in the border area: “There were many dead people at the border. You could walk on the corpses. No one comes to bury them.”
Getachew added: “It is like a graveyard. There are no dogs or hyenas there to eat the bodies, just dead bodies everywhere.”
Two of the five interviewees who crossed the border without being detained said that Saudi and Ethiopian smugglers and traffickers took them to informal detention camps in southern Saudi towns and held them for ransom. “Yonas” said they took him and 14 others to a camp in the Fayfa area of Jizan Province: “They beat me daily until I called my family. They wanted 10,000 Birr ($349). My father sold his farmland and sent the 10,000 Birr, but then they told me this isn’t enough, we need 20,000 ($698). I had nothing left and decided to escape or die.” He escaped.
Following their capture, the migrants described abusive conditions in Saudi governmental detention centers and prisons, including overcrowding and inadequate food, water, and medical care. Migrants also described beatings by Saudi guards.
Nine migrants who were captured while crossing the border illegally or living in Saudi Arabia without documentation spent up to five months in detention before authorities deported them back to Ethiopia. The three others were convicted of criminal offenses that included human trafficking and drug smuggling, resulting in longer periods in detention before being deported.
The migrants identified about 10 prisons and detention centers where they were held for various periods. The most frequently cited were a center near the town of al-Dayer in Jizan Province along the border, Jizan Central Prison in Jizan city, and the Shmeisi Detention Center east of Jeddah, where migrants are processed for deportation.
Al-Dayer had the worst conditions, they said, citing overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, food and water, and medical care. Yonas said:
They tied our feet with chains and they beat us while chained, sometimes you can’t get to the food because you are chained. If you get chained by the toilet it will overflow and flow under you. If you are aggressive you get chained by the toilet. If you are good [behave well], they chain you to another person and you can move around.
Abraham had a similar description:
The people there beat us. Ethnic groups [from Ethiopia] fought with each other. The toilet was overflowing. It was like a graveyard and not a place to live. Urine was everywhere and people were defecating. The smell was terrible.
Other migrants described similarly bad conditions in Jizan Central Prison. “Ibrahim” said that he was a legal migrant working in Saudi Arabia, but that he travelled to Jizan to help his sister, whom Saudi authorities had detained after she crossed from Yemen illegally. Once in Jizan, authorities suspected him of human trafficking and arrested him, put him on trial, and sentenced him to two years in prison, a sentenced he partially served in Jizan Central Prison:
Jizan prison is so very tough…. You can be sleeping with [beside] someone who has tuberculosis, and if you ask an official to move you, they don’t care. They will beat you. You can’t change clothes, you have one set and that is it, sometimes the guards will illegally bring clothes and sell to you at night.
He also complained of overcrowding: “When you want to sleep you tell people and they all jostle to make some room, then you sleep for a bit but you wake up because everyone is jostling against each other.”
Most of the migrants said food was inadequate. Yonas described the situation in al-Dayer: “When they gave food 10 people would gather and fight over it. If you don’t have energy you won’t eat. The fight is over rice and bread.”
Detainees also said medical care was inadequate and that detainees with symptoms of tuberculosis (such as cough, fever, night sweats, or weight loss) were not isolated from other prisoners. Human Rights Watch interviewed three former detainees who were being treated for tuberculosis after being deported, two of whom said they were held with other detainees despite having symptoms of active tuberculosis.
Detainees described being beaten by Saudi prison guards when they requested medical care. Abdi said:
I was beaten once with a stick in Jizan that was like a piece of rebar covered in plastic. I was sick in prison and I used to vomit. They said, ‘why do you do that when people are eating?’ and then they beat me harshly and I told him [the guard], ‘Please kill me.’ He eventually stopped.
Ibrahim said he was also beaten when he requested medical care for tuberculosis:
[Prison guards] have a rule that you aren’t supposed to knock on the door [and disturb the guards]. When I got sick in the first six months and asked to go to the clinic, they just beat me with electric wires on the bottom of my feet. I kept asking so they kept beating.
Detainees said that the other primary impetus for beatings by guards was fighting between different ethnic groups of Ethiopians in detention, largely between ethnic Oromos, Amharas, and Tigrayans. Ethnic tensions are increasingly common back in Ethiopia.
Detainees said that conditions generally improved once they were transferred to Shmeisi Detention Center, near Jeddah, where they stayed only a few days before receiving temporary travel documents from Ethiopian consular authorities and deported to Ethiopia. The migrants charged with and convicted of crimes had no opportunity to consult legal counsel.
None of the migrants said they were given the opportunity to legally challenge their deportations, and Saudi Arabia has not established an asylum system under which migrants could apply for protection from deportation where there was a risk of persecution if they were sent back. Saudi Arabia is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Deportation and Future Prospects
Humanitarian workers and diplomats told Human Rights Watch that since the beginning of Saudi Arabia’s deportation campaign, large numbers of Ethiopian deportees have been transported via special flights by Saudia Airlines to Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa and unloaded in a cargo area away from the main international terminal or at the domestic terminal. When Human Rights Watch visited in May, it appeared that the Saudi flights were suspended during the month of Ramadan, during which strict sunrise-to-sunset fasting is observed by Muslims. All interviewees who were deported in May said they had returned on regular Ethiopian Airlines commercial flights and disembarked at the main terminal with other passengers.
All of those deported said that they returned to Ethiopia with nothing but the clothes they were wearing, and that Saudi authorities had confiscated their mobile phones and in some cases shoes and belts. “After staying in Jeddah … they had us make a line and take off our shoes,” Abraham said. “Anything that could tie like a belt we had to leave, they wouldn’t let us take it. We were barefoot when we went to the airport.”
Deportees often have critical needs for assistance, including medical care, some for gunshot wounds. One returnee recovering from tuberculosis said that he did not have enough money to buy food and was going hungry. Abdi said that when he left for Saudi Arabia he weighed 64 kilograms but returned weighing only 47 or 48 kilograms.
Aid workers and diplomats familiar with migration issues in Ethiopia said that very little international assistance is earmarked for helping deportees from Saudi Arabia for medical care and shelter or money to return and reintegrate in their home villages.
Over 8 million people are in need of food assistance in Ethiopia, a country of over 100 million. It hosts over 920,000 refugees from neighboring countries and violence along ethnic lines produced over 2.4 internally displaced people in 2018, many of whom have now been returned.
The IOM registers migrants upon arrival in Ethiopia and to facilitate their return from Saudi Arabia. Several hours after their arrival and once registered, they leave the airport and must fend for themselves. Some said they had never been to Addis before.
In 2013 and 2014, Saudi Arabia conducted an expulsion campaign similar to the one that began in November 2017. The earlier campaign expelled about 163,000 Ethiopians, according to the IOM. A 2015 Human Rights Watch report found that migrants experienced serious abuses during detention and deportation, including attacks by security forces and private citizens in Saudi Arabia, and inadequate and abusive detention conditions. Human Rights Watch has also previously documented mistreatment of Ethiopian migrants by traffickers and government detention centers in Yemen.
Aid workers and diplomats said that inadequate funding to assist returning migrants is as a result of several factors, including a focus of many of the European funders on stemming migration to and facilitating returns from Europe, along with competing priorities and the low visibility of the issue compared with migration to Europe.
During previous mass returns from Saudi Arabia, there was more funding for reintegration and more international media attention in part because there was such a large influx in a short time, aid workers said.
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/15/ethiopians-abused-gulf-migration-route
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#Yémen : Des navires de la coalition attaquent des bateaux de pêche | Human Rights Watch
▻https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2019/08/21/yemen-des-navires-de-la-coalition-attaquent-des-bateaux-de-peche
Par ailleurs, la coalition a détenu en #Arabie_saoudite, semble-t-il sans inculpation, plus de 115 pêcheurs, dont 3 enfants, de 40 jours à deux ans et demi. Sept anciens détenus ont déclaré que les autorités saoudiennes avaient torturé et maltraité les pêcheurs et membres d’équipage capturés et qu’ils les avaient privés de contact avec leur famille, un avocat ou les représentants du gouvernement yéménite.
#Yemen #Houthi rebels target Saudi oil field | News | DW | 17.08.2019
▻https://www.dw.com/en/yemen-houthi-rebels-target-saudi-oil-field/a-50066244
#Drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have attacked a massive oil and gas field in Saudi Arabia. This is the second such attack on the Saudi energy industry in recent days [...]
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The field’s distance from rebel-held territory in Yemen demonstrates the range of the Houthis’ drones. UN investigators say the Houthis’ new UAV-X drone likely has a range of up to 1,500 kilometers (930 miles). That puts Saudi oil fields, an Emirati nuclear power plant currently under construction, and Dubai’s busy international airport within their range.
MoA - Long Range Attack On Saudi Oil Field Ends War On Yemen
▻https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/08/long-range-attack-on-saudi-oil-field-ends-war-on-yemen.html
Probablement un tournant dans la guerre.
The war on Yemen that MbS started in March 2015 long proved to be unwinnable. Now it is definitely lost. Neither the U.S. nor the Europeans will come to the Saudis help. There are no technological means to reasonably protect against such attacks. Poor Yemen defeated rich Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi side will have to agree to political peace negotiations. The Yemeni demand for reparation payments will be eye watering. But the Saudis will have no alternative but to cough up whatever the Houthi demand.
The UAE was smart to pull out of Yemen during the last months. Its war aim was to gain control of the port of Aden. Its alliance with southern Yemen separatist who now control the city guarantees that. How long they will be able to hold on to it when Khamenei rejects a division of Yemen remains to be seen.
Today’s attack has an even larger dimension than marking the end of the war on Yemen. That Iran supplied drones with 1,500 kilometer reach to its allies in Yemen means that its allies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have access to similar means.
Israel and Turkey will have to take that into consideration. U.S. bases along the Persian Gulf and in Afghanistan must likewise watch out. Iran has not only ballistic missiles to attack those bases but also drones against which U.S. missile and air defense systems are more or less useless. Only the UAE, which bought Russian Pantsir S-1 air defense systems on German MAN truck chassis(!), has some capabilities to take those drones down. The Pentagon would probably love to buy some of these.
#Yémen : les combats à Aden révèlent les divisions au sein de la coalition - #Moyen-Orient - RFI
▻http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20190811-yemen-combats-aden-divisions-coalition-arabie-saouite-emirats-arabes-un
La situation est très tendue, mais les alliés d’hier, ennemis aujourd’hui, devraient redevenir amis, selon Franck Mermier. « Il est difficile de penser que ces deux alliés ne vont pas essayer de surmonter leur divergences dans le sens où leur alliance est très importante dans la conduite de la guerre au Yémen. (…) Donc, il y a un jeu ambivalent, ambigu même entre ces deux alliés de la coalition. Il faudra voir ces prochains jours comment ils vont arriver à maintenir la fiction de cette coalition arabe qui est censée soutenir le président Hadi ».
جريدة الأخبار
▻https://al-akhbar.com/Yemen/274878
توازياً مع سقوط العشرات من المواقع العسكرية في جبهات ما وراء الحدود، أعلن العشرات من المنشقين اليمنيين عن جبهات دول التحالف السعودي الإماراتي، الأسبوع الماضي، انضمامهم إلى صفوف الجيش اليمني واللجان الشعبية، مستفيدين من قرار العفو العام عن «المغرّر بهم من قبل العدوان»، كما تصفهم حكومة صنعاء، لتشكل «العودة» إلى صنعاء ظاهرة شملت المئات في الأسابيع الأخيرة.
Cela commence à ressembler à une débâcle pour la « coalition » saoudienne au Yémen : en plus des bombardements réguliers par drones des aéroports du sud de l’Arabie saoudite, et des attaques aux missiles très précises contre des centres de commandement, pour ne rien dire des combats entre pro-Emiriens et pro-Saoudiens à Aden, de nombreux combattants - 2000 selon cet article - profitent de l’offre d’amnistie accordée par les Houthis pour changer de camp et rejoindre les probables vainqueurs à Sanaa. (A quel prix, c’est vrai...)
Mujtahid pour dire en gros que MBS voudrait bien négocier le nord du Yémen avecles Houthis mais que ceux-ci veulent tout le Yémen et des compensations financières...
ما حصل في عدن هو جزء مما أشرت إليه في تغريدة سابقة:
ابن سلمان ينوي فعلا إعطاء الشمال للحوثيين
لم تنسحب الإمارات إلا تهيئة لسيطرة عملائها على اليمن الجنوبي وحتى لا تتحمل مسؤولية الحدث
مصيبة ابن سلمان أن الحوثيين يريدون اليمن كله وتعويضات بالمليارات
Table ronde d’actualité internationale : Yémen : une “sale guerre” française ?
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/cultures-monde/table-ronde-dactualite-internationale-yemen-une-sale-guerre-francaise
8:05 :
Quand un état achète des armes il achète du soutien politique aussi
(34:30 : une analyse rapide et claire de la situation de la guerre en cours)