Shafiqa’s right arm is now an airplane. She holds it at an incline and the ‘plane’ begins to move. “It was an air strike. Bombs were dropped multiple times. There was a loud explosion and a large cloud of smoke. Within minutes, hundreds of them were buried under the rubble,” she says.
Shafiqa Mohammad Hazra, 60, however, didn’t see the airstrike outside their home at Aden in Yemen. It was her 22-year-old daughter, Sameera, who saw the airplanes emerging out of plumes of smoke. But Sameera won’t utter a word — not about what she saw, not about her home that’s over 3,000 km and a world apart from the pristine white hospital bed she is on.
A two-year-long war
The current crisis in Yemen, which has been embroiled in a civil war for over two years, has its roots in a series of six bloody wars fought between the government and the military militia, the Houthis, that goes back to 2004. In 2011, the country witnessed an ‘intifada (revolution)’, which occurred simultaneously with other Arab Spring protests against unemployment and corruption, forcing long-time Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. The Houthis, a Shia-led political movement whose members call themselves ‘Ansar Allah (the supporters of God)’, used the revolution to expand their territory from their stronghold in north to regions in the south of the country.
In September 2014, the Houthis captured Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, and took control of the government machinery. In March 2015, the Houthis, with the support of former president Saleh, pushed to Aden, bombing neighbourhoods and laying siege to the city.
In March 2015, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, who replaced Saleh as president, fled the country from his hometown, Aden, to Saudi Arabia.
On March 26, Hadi got a Saudi-led coalition, of which the UAE is a part, to intervene in Yemen which, since then, has been attacking Houthi positions, carrying out devastating air strikes across the country.
Source:-Indian Express
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Shafiqa Mohammad Hazra, 60, however, didn’t see the airstrike outside their home at Aden in Yemen. It was her 22-year-old daughter, Sameera, who saw the airplanes emerging out of plumes of smoke. But Sameera won’t utter a word — not about what she saw, not about her home that’s over 3,000 km and a world apart from the pristine white hospital bed she is on.
A two-year-long war
The current crisis in Yemen, which has been embroiled in a civil war for over two years, has its roots in a series of six bloody wars fought between the government and the military militia, the Houthis, that goes back to 2004. In 2011, the country witnessed an ‘intifada (revolution)’, which occurred simultaneously with other Arab Spring protests against unemployment and corruption, forcing long-time Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. The Houthis, a Shia-led political movement whose members call themselves ‘Ansar Allah (the supporters of God)’, used the revolution to expand their territory from their stronghold in north to regions in the south of the country.
In September 2014, the Houthis captured Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, and took control of the government machinery. In March 2015, the Houthis, with the support of former president Saleh, pushed to Aden, bombing neighbourhoods and laying siege to the city.
In March 2015, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, who replaced Saleh as president, fled the country from his hometown, Aden, to Saudi Arabia.
On March 26, Hadi got a Saudi-led coalition, of which the UAE is a part, to intervene in Yemen which, since then, has been attacking Houthi positions, carrying out devastating air strikes across the country.
Source:-Indian Express
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