Genocide of Yemen

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Some "alternative media" argue that it's contradictory that the Yemen genocide, that has resulted in the worst man-made famine of the 21st century, is so blatantly ignored, but we now get a media hysteria over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Since March 2015, the UAE/Saudi-led coalition warplanes have executed over 266,000 airstrikes on poor Yemen.
This has resulted in more than a half of million dead Yemenis, most of them dying not as the direct result of the bombs but as a result of the starvation caused by the blockade and the bombing of food and energy.

And obviously the Houthis, because they fight against the psychopaths that rule the oil-rich UAE and Saudi Arabia, are nothing more than "terrorists", so the UN Security Council, this month chaired by the UAE, condemned the Houthis' "cross-border attacks" and extended the arms embargo and travel ban on Yemen, which will make the humanitarian crisis even worse: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/tears ... -standard/


Like the UN, the Biden administration (that like Trump and Obama support the UAE/Saudi's brutal war) have started new sanctions against "Houthi financiers", which will hamper civilian imports, with more starvation as the result.

In the meantime, the Saudi and Russian relationship has blossomed since the UAE installed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. Bin Salman first formally met Vladimir Putin in 2015 (when he was just one of the princes of the kingdom): https://archive.ph/1R9hW


It couldn't get more ridiculous than the following could it?!? The elites and their selected political puppets are busy inflating energy prices to ultimately cause food shortages and migration...

So now we are supposed to believe that President Joe politely asked the Saudis and Emirate sheiks for a phone conversation to ask for more oil (so energy prices would drop), but they refused to even talk to the demented old fart: https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/03/08/ ... ssian-oil/

And that British PM Boris Johnson travelled all the way to the UAE and Saudi Arabia to meet Crown Princes Mohamed bin Zayed and Mohammed bin Salman to ask in vain for more oil.
See Boris and Salman.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... plies.html

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Apparently everybody has better things to do than worry about more than 50,000 brown children dying a year...


With the genocide continuing, well-fed members of US Congress have introduced the Yemen War Powers Resolutions, that has also been entered into the US Senate.
If it passes (voted on today) it supposedly will bring an end to the US military support for the UAE / Saudi war against poor Yemen.

But when a similar resolution was passed in 2019, it was vetoed by Trump.
I guess that senile Joe will show that he's just as bad as lying Donald: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... resolution


After a 6 months truce in Yemen, on October 2 the warring parties didn't extend it.

While the Saudis (or the Houthis that don't accept the Saudi puppet government of course) get most of the blame for the war against Yemen, the United Arab Emirates are often ignored.
The UAE is backing the Southern Transitional Council, fighting in southern Yemen for a new state with Aden as its capital.

Meanwhile the UAE army has started building a military airfield on the island of Abd al Quri, which is Yemeni territory.
Some Arab media have reported that Israel and the UAE are planning a joint intelligence center on the Yemeni island of Socotra to control the Yemeni airspace and maritime traffic in the Bab al-Mandeb Strai: https://journal-neo.org/2022/10/05/yeme ... -unabated/


According to UN data, at the end of 2021 the blockade/war has caused 377,000 deaths (an underestimate of course), more than two-thirds of those younger than 5 years old.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported this week stating that 1 mother and 6 newborn Yemeni babies die every 2 hours (84 per day).
The Red Cross also warned that two-thirds of Yemen’s 30.5 million people lack access to basic healthcare (most of them wouldn't need medical care if they could eat!): https://www.rt.com/news/558711-yemen-he ... ies-dying/


Since I heard about the "truce" in the war against Yemen, I've been thinking that with Yemen importing 90% of its food, including 50% of its wheat in 2021 from Ukraine and Russia, they will continue to suffer starvation even when the blockade is stopped, with global food shortages and hyperinflation already happening.

Russia's UN Security Council representative Dmitry Polyansky said:

The extremely difficult socio-economic situation in Yemen remains a subject of particular concern. The degrading situation in the country can be described as a major humanitarian catastrophe. We reiterate the urgent need to remove all restrictions on the delivery of essential goods to Yemen. Food, medicine, and other items that Yemenis need must be available to them on a non-discriminatory basis.

https://journal-neo.org/2022/07/21/yeme ... an-crisis/

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With the genocide continuing, well-fed members of US Congress have introduced the Yemen War Powers Resolutions, that has also been entered into the US Senate.
If it passes (voted on today) it supposedly will bring an end to the US military support for the UAE / Saudi war against poor Yemen.

Instead of a vote on the Yemen War Powers Resolution that would end US support for the UAE/Saudi war and blockade against Yemen. Senator Bernie Sanders withdrew his request to vote on the Yemen War Powers Resolution, "because" the Biden administration is "opposed" to the resolution and threatened a veto by Biden.
I don't understand why no other senator would pick this up, or how Bernie Sanders could decide which bills are or aren't voted on.

Many of the same Biden administration officials that in 2019 called on Congress to override Trump’s veto of the Yemen war powers resolution, are now against the current one, including Jake Sullivan, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Wendy Sherman, and Colin Kahl: https://theintercept.com/2022/12/13/ber ... ite-house/


Our wonderful media have reported on a ceasefire and that the war against Yemen has ended, which I find hard to believe. Especially as I haven't heard what they plan to do with Yemen, will it once again be split in 2 (north and south) with the unelected Houthis ruling the north?
If it ends anyway, US Congress could have just as well voted for the Yemen War Powers Resolution couldn't they?!?


You probably haven't noticed that our wonderful media hardly ever report on the United Arab Emirates' role in world politics, and that even their role in the genocide against Yemen is underreported. The alternative media that actually blame the coalition mostly blame Saudi Arabia as its leader.
You probably have heard about the Sudan civil war (if that's what it is), between the "official" army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF, previously called Janjaweed) of Hemedti (Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo). But probably not about the Yemen/UAE connection...

RSF mercenaries have fought for both Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the war against Yemen. The "official" Sudanese government is also associated with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has forged an alliance with the UAE and Saudis. This suggests that both sides in the war are controlled by the UAE.
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have hired tens of thousands of desperate Sudanese mercenaries to do their fighting. At any time as many as 14,000 Sudanese mercenaries were fighting in Yemen.

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has been an international pariah for years. His alliance with the UAE and Saudis has eased his international isolation by diplomatic support from the “coalition”: http://archive.is/NwCnI


Most of the Sudanese mercenaries come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict.
Most belong to the Janjaweed that were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict.

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Hemedti’s official Facebook page was managed from the UAE.

On 9 March 2022, none other than Victoria Nuland visited Sudan, planning the kind of freedom and democracy some would call genocide and slavery...


There are also American, Russian and Chinese parties playing their deadly game, but I think the UAE link is the most interesting there.
In February 2022 (just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) Hemedti visited Moscow, where he was pictired with Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. The Wagner militia also has strong ties with Hemedti.

Sudan is also involved in some of Southern Africa’s largest gold-smuggling and money laundering operations. Billions of dollars’ worth of gold are smuggled from Zimbabwe to Dubai every month.
Hemedti controls Sudanese gold mines, and some 50% of precious metals were smuggled out of Sudan illegally in 2022. With the RSF allied with the UAE it seems obvious that there is a link between the 2: https://expose-news.com/2023/04/27/suda ... -it-again/

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While the ‘big’ current Yemen news is that the Houthis join Iran in their war against US-Israel, it isn’t clear what the value of the Houthis’ support is (or what the status of that war and the Strait of Hormuz is). I don’t expect them to do much damage shooting missiles at far away Israel (let alone the USA).

The United Arab Emirates hired the private US company Spear Operations Group to assassinate ‘enemies’ in Yemen.
Its first failed contract murder was on 29 December 2015, when they bombed the Aden office of the political party Al-Islah, but failed to kill politician Anssaf Ali Mayo, who later was was nominated to a post by the so-called “president” of Yemen, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
In 2012, Mayo told the Washington Post that rather than stopping al-Qaeda, US drone strikes in Yemen had instead fueled its growth (I thought that was THE objective...). Could this have possibly been a motive for ‘silencing’ him?!?

Many experts insist that Al-Islah is no terror group, with one of its members winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2016, members of Al-Islah, and (other) clerics in Aden, were dropping dead at an alarming pace. According to Gregory Johnsen of the Arabia Foundation:

It does appear to be a targeted campaign. There have been 25 to 30 assassinations, though a few appear to be the work of ISIS.

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Spear Operations Group was incorporated in Delaware and founded by the Hungarian-Israeli Abraham Golan. Golan admitted his team was responsible for several of these assassinations.
Golan has deep connections in Israel for his security business and boasted he once partied in London with former Mossad chief Danny Yatom.

The deal that brought American mercenaries to kill in Aden was made over a lunch in Abu Dhabi (in the UAE). Golan and former US Navy SEAL Isaac Gilmore made their sales pitch to Mohammed Dahlan. They were hired for $1.5 million a month, and on top earn bonuses for successful kills.
See Isaac Gilmore, Mohammed Dahlan, and Abraham Golan.


During the Palestinian intifada in the 1980s, Dahlan became a major political player in the Palestinian Authority. In the 1990s, Dahlan became the Palestinian Authority’s head of security in Gaza, overseeing the crackdown on Hamas in 1995 and 1996. Dahlan later met US President George W. Bush and developed ties to the CIA, and also met CIA director George Tenet several times.
In 2007, Dahlan fell from grace, accused by the Palestinian Authority of corruption and by Hamas of cooperating with the CIA and Israel. Dahlan fled to the UAE to become an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

In early 2016, the veteran of SEAL Team 6, Daniel Corbett, was hired for the assassination team in Yemen. Corbett was later hired by Raven Military.
In 2018, 2019, Corbett was jailed for 18 months in Serbia, where he was investigated for illegal handgun possession (according to Serbian media, he actually performed a high profile assassination): https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ar ... lan-dahlan
(https://archive.is/mHqEK)


This suggests that the UAE's Project Raven was also murdering perceived enemies of the Emirati royals (even in Serbia?).

The UAE’s Project Raven spied on other governments and human rights activists, including through hacking phones and computers.
Project Raven started in 2008 as DREAD, developed by Richard A. Clarke through his advisory group Good Harbor Consulting for UAE de facto dictator Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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