Death, starvation haunt southern Yemen

You know that Yemen is besieged and starving as a result of the long civil war, made impossibly longer by  naval an air bombardment and blockades by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with shameful support from the United State and Great Britain.

Surprising are two paragraphs near the usual recital of genocide:

UTHOR

Ashraf al-Falahi

POSTED

February 23, 2016

Taiz is of great symbolic value, for it is the capital of the most populous governorate in the country and the first to rise against Saleh in 2011 during the Arab Spring. But the forces loyal to current President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi — which include a coalition spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States — have been slow to retake the city, which allowed the Iran-backed (?) Houthis to tighten the siege. That sluggish response cannot be divorced from the disagreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi Arabia-UAE dispute revolves around the resistance's leadership in Taiz, which is made up mainly of members of the Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah Party), affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.  

While Saudi Arabia has expressed considerable openness toward the Islah-led resistance, Abu Dhabi has taken an opposing stance. As clearly evidenced by the statements of Emirati officials, this indicates that the war in Yemen is being fought not against the Houthis, but against those affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

See Saud- United Arab Emirates split; Saud falsely blame Iran for Yemen

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Taiz, then:

Queen sElizabeth's visit, during the mush-missed British protectorate

Taiz now, images form google images for the pst week

A boy walks along a street in Taiz after an explosion REUTERS.jpg