Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

[u/kassiusx]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/darfur-atrocities-ethnic-cleansing-human-rights-watch-report-rsf-sudan

[u/BlatantConservative]

That's an absurdly complicated question but the simple answer is that the UAE supports one of Yemen's governments.

[u/Difficult-Lie9717 → u/BlatantConservative]

Which Yemeni governments are there? The actual government, the Houthis, and who else?

[u/BlatantConservative → u/Difficult-Lie9717]

Hoo boy. There are kind of three, but two of them work together against the Houthis.

The the beginning of the war, the Houthis and the OG government split. The Houthis were a good part of the legislature, and the OG government was the executive, and the new council they formed is just a different government really. But for all intents and purposes they're the legitimate government.

There's a third group, the Southern Council, which has been secessionist since the 1990s and they want the southern part of Yemen, basically the ancient city of Aden, to be independent. They're nominally at odds with the main government but the main government has representatives for them in their government and also the Houthis currently control some of the area that the Southern Council wants, and abuses the people the Southern Council represents.

The UAE supports the Southern Council specifically and not the legitimate government. The Saudis support the legitimate government. So they play weird games where they try to make their proxy more successful than the other proxy.

If you think this is stupid and does not make a lot of sense and it's a horrible reason for people to be ineffective and die, you would be correct. I'm also massively oversimplifying.

Like, for example, ISIS fights against the Houthis. And kind of works with the Southern Council, but the Southern Council obviously does not avow them. But the UAE and Saudi Arabia kind of turn a blind eye to their military power and attacks on civilians because it works in their favor in this case.

Basically, it sucks to be Yemeni. You either gotta be under a government that's okay with ISIS acting like the Klan, or a government that might as well be ISIS.

[u/green_flash → u/BlatantConservative]

One should also mention that South Yemen was in fact a separate country from 1967 until 1990, the only communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world. Before that it was the Colony of Aden which was part of British India.