Yemen: Remaining Peaceful Was Their Choice
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Remaining Peaceful Was Their Choice: Young Yemenis Sounded Alarms Before the Civil War
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
"Now, the nightmare of famine and disease those peaceful youths anticipated has become a horrid reality, and their city of Ta'iz is transformed into a battlefield."
by: Kathy Kelly
In 2011, protesters in Yemen demanded the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh but received little international support and were specifically left to languish by the U.S. government which had long back the Saleh regime. (Photo: AFP/Getty)
People living now in Yemen’s third largest city, Ta’iz, have endured unimaginable circumstances for the past three years. Civilians fear to go outside lest they be shot by a sniper or step on a land mine. Both sides of a wor...