In the public impression, the countries located in the Arabian Peninsula are almost all enviable rich countries, coupled with thousands of years of historical heritage, which makes people have the illusion that this peninsula should also be one of the cradles of ancient human civilization.
However, it is extremely surprising that there is such a country, not only is the world slowly forgetting it, but it is also "indisputable", and the perennial wars and strife, the absurdity of the people, have gradually led this country to the demise that no one knows how to stop, it is Yemen.
Speaking of Yemen's past, the written past alone can be traced back 3,000 years.
Since the 14th century BC, three dynasties, including Main, have been established here; by 525 AD, it has become a vassal of several kingdoms; in the 7th century, it has become part of a huge Arab empire; and after 9 centuries, it has begun to become a colony of Western powers.
In 1918, Yemen broke away from imperial control and established its own kingdom.
In 1962, after years of chaos, the people of North Yemen held high the banner of revolution and once again became the first Arab "republic" to break away from colonial rule. Five years later, South Yemen also broke away from British rule and successfully became independent.
In 1990, North and South Yemen were unified and the Republic of Yemen was formally established. Unfortunately, however, the calm did not last long in Yemen.
In 1994, the leaders of the former North and South Yemen had differences of opinion, and relations continued to deteriorate, culminating in civil war. In the same year, the southern forces failed and Yemen was once again at peace. But the problem still lurks in Yemen, and the contradictions between the North and the South have not disappeared with the end of the war.
Yemen, like a "performer" walking on a tightrope rope, takes every step like walking on thin ice, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >01, war-torn country: If it were not for several wars in the headlines, Yemen would have been forgotten by the world</h1>
In September 1994, the Yemeni Parliament passed a constitutional bill to change the original presidential council system to a presidential system. In October, ali Abdullah Saleh, the former leader of North Yemen, was elected Yemen's first president.
Saleh belongs to the Akhmal tribe, but the upper leadership of the tribe unanimously concludes that Saleh is "not from the right place"; Saleh himself believes in "Shiiteism" but has tense relations with Iran, the main distribution of "Shiites".
Later in Saleh's administration, he was basically in opposition to the Shiites. Among them, the Husserl faction is typically represented.
The founder of the Husserl faction was Hussein Badreddin Husserl, a member of a family in a province north of Yemen. Around 1995, Hussein openly promoted Shia theory at a university summer camp, confronting Saleh's conservative theories and laying the groundwork for future generations.
In 2004, Hussein and his Husserl faction formally "tore their faces" with Saleh and launched a rebellion against the Yemeni government.
The civil unrest lasted more than six years, until 2010, when the Husserlists signed a ceasefire agreement with Yemen, which calmed the situation in Yemen.
In 2012, Saleh stepped down as president and former Vice President Hadi took office. After becoming president, he tried to woo the Husserlites, sending Hussein's body back home in the same year to personally preside over his funeral.
But the results did not turn out as Hardy had hoped. In 2014, when Hadi embarked on energy reforms in Yemen, he was met with massive mass protests, and the Husserlists, who had been lurking, took the opportunity to demand the dissolution of the cabinet and the restructuring of the government.
Hadi naturally disagreed, and the situation in Yemen deteriorated again.
Soon after, husserl captured the Yemeni capital, forced Hadi to resign as president, and fled to Saudi Arabia in a hurry to seek arab aid.
The following year, Hadi and his followers established a "base" in southern Yemen, publicly canceled his previous resignation, announced yemen's move to Aden, and denounced the Husserl faction for "colluding with Saleh and Iran" to launch a "coup" and request Saudi support.
Just 2 days later, Saudi Arabia and the 11-nation coalition, as Hadi wished, entered Yemen strongly, helping Hadi to repel the Husserl attack and completely open the prelude to the Yemeni civil war.
The impact of the war was undoubtedly enormous and negative, and the different supporters behind Hadi and Husserl's factions were thinking of each other, prompting the contradictions between the two factions to grow larger and larger, and there was almost no possibility of reconciliation.
In December 2017, Saleh and the Husserl faction "broke up" and were killed by the Husserl faction, which reduced the husserl counter-offensive at one point.
In 2018, with the unremitting good offices of the United Nations, the two sides of Yemen temporarily reached a ceasefire agreement. But soon the two sides began to accuse each other of tearing up the ceasefire agreement.
The fighting spread across Yemen as if there were no end in sight. As some media commentators have done, the war has gradually become a way of life for Yemenis, inflicting very severe trauma on the country and its citizens.
Had it not been for the civil war in Yemen, which has been on the international news from time to time, I am afraid that the world would have long forgotten this country, which is in turmoil and despair.
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For the Yemeni people, in addition to bringing them a time of never-ending peace, the war has also plunged them into the "abyss of despair", facing poverty, shortage of food, health care, water, education and other resources, especially the children of Yemen, the war is "stealing" and "destroying" their future.
According to relevant statistics, the suffering of Yemeni children is heinous and shocking. Since the beginning of the civil war in Yemen, tens of thousands of children in Yemen have lost their lives or been severely affected.
A spokesman for the International Children's Fund said: "The data is enough to prove that 4 children in Yemen are now suffering from war every day, and 4 out of every 5 Yemeni children are in need of international humanitarian assistance, which is equivalent to the healthless life of more than 11 million Yemeni children;
Meanwhile, 400,000 children in Yemen are severely malnourished, more than 2 million students are out of school, more than 4 million are at risk of dropping out of school, and 1.7 million Yemeni children are experiencing difficulties in displacement. ”
In forgotten corners of the world, Abdul and his family had to leave the countryside where they lived, risking gunfire and soldiers wandering around, to seek refuge in a Malibu camp.
He said: "I don't care who started the war, all I know is that the war destroyed the happy life I once had. ”
His youngest granddaughter is only a month old, has never seen "peace" and "tranquility", and can only grow up trembling in the war, unable to see her long future.
Sultana Begm, a Briton who works for a charity, witnessed the birth of a "tragedy" for Yemeni children and ordinary Yemeni people.
"The crisis in Yemen is not an accidental phenomenon, nor a natural phenomenon, but a completely man-made crisis," she said. The crisis not only affects children, but also leaves large segments of Yemen's population in the same plight. Without humanitarian assistance, no one can predict what will happen to Yemen tomorrow. ”
In Yemen today, everyone is risking war for food.
It seems that Yemen, known as the "granary of the bay" in the past, is full of barley, wheat, corn and other crops has "disappeared" in the long stream of time.
The world has forgotten Yemen, which was developed in agriculture before the 1960s; forwing Yemen, once called the "land of happy Arabia" by the Greeks, with the ability to develop agriculture and increase food production.
Even the Yemenis themselves are struggling with the raging war, unable or given the opportunity to get their farm tools back, reclaim their land, grow their food, and feed themselves.
The shortage of domestic grain can only be alleviated by importing grain. But Yemen's economic environment is also in a state of collapse, with people not having the money to buy high-priced food.
Their only hope is international humanitarian assistance. How can aid be too little for their plight.
Hunger and poverty continue to plague the people of Yemen, and despair hangs like a dark cloud over the country. If they can no longer find an effective way to save themselves, Yemen will become another country "devoured" by war in the 21st century.
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As the saying goes, no one can save himself, and no one can save him. Whether Yemenis can wait for a chance to survive depends on how they decide.
But instead, Yemenis in the "abyss of despair" have used a ridiculous behavior to make the world feel extremely speechless. Why? The reason is simple, because in addition to the negative effects of the war, the Yemenis have willingly put a "death shackle" on themselves. This "shackle" is Gat.
Qat, also known as "Yemeni tea", "Khat tea", etc., is one of the "soft drugs" published by the International Health Organization, and many countries have included it in the scope of controlled drugs, and passengers are strictly prohibited from bringing it into the country.
It originated in Ethiopia and is now widely found in tropical Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Gat can be eaten, the effect is similar to stimulants, eating too much will produce slight hallucinations, bringing people a strange "pleasure", and easy to addictive, it is difficult to quit.
Generally speaking, people know the harm of something and naturally subconsciously avoid it.
But the Yemenis are very strange, they clearly see the problem of kat, but still allow the people to grow kat on a large scale, and eat and chew at will, no one stops.
In Yemen, chewing a ghat and swallowing its bitter juice is as common as drinking water and eating.
Gat parties are often held among Yemenis, which can be attended by everyone, and the only requirement is that the places where men and women participate are separated. Because yemen's working day is half-day, gatherings are usually held in the afternoon.
People of different classes chewed on the curry while talking and chatting freely.
Journalists in Yemen love places where they can get a lot of news and enrich their writing material.
Yemen's top officials are also very fond of kat gatherings, and they can rely on their own purchases of kats to woo the masses, invite them to listen to their campaign speeches, and persuade them to support themselves.
At the same time, Yemenis invite their foreign friends to ghat parties.
Shi Yanchun is a former Chinese ambassador to Yemen, and during his work, he has been invited by yemeni friends many times to participate in many Gat parties.
Once, Shi Yanchun and his colleagues visited the Hasid tribe. The owner of the tribe was quite enthusiastic, not only slaughtering cattle and sheep to invite them to a hearty meal, but also inviting them to enter the "kat house" where the tribesmen chewed the qat after the meal.
The house is very large and you need to take off your shoes to enter the door. There is a very large carpet on the middle floor, and in front of the four walls are thick cushions.
The gatherings were attended by the upper classes and a small number of local officials. Everyone was chewing on the curry and chatting about various topics.
The Yemenis were interested in China and asked Shi Yanchun many questions about China. Shi Yanchun took this opportunity to ask about the situation of the Yemeni tribes, and the two sides returned home with pleasure.
Another time, Shi Yanchun's businessman friend specially invited him to a special gathering for Chinese friends. At the meeting, there were senior government officials, social elites and so on.
Shi Yanchun, his wife and other Chinese attended the gat gathering together, and according to Yemeni custom, men and women were in different places.
He said: "The gat party took place after lunch, the host of the banquet prepared the gat for each visitor, and most of the Chinese present were very cautious, only curious to chew a few young leaves to show respect. ”
Because of the needs of work, Shi Yanchun, who often chewed curry, was indeed like a Yemeni after a while, and his right cheek was swollen like a small ball.
But even if the bad effect of ghat on the human body is so obvious, Yemenis still regard ghat as a necessity for life.
Walk into the local market in Yemen and you will see a variety of Qaat markets. Some stall owners spread some of the curts on the ground, while others hold a handful of curts as "advertisements".
Almost every stall is crowded with buyers, haggling with the stall owners, which is very lively.
Shi Yanchun said: "Don't look at the special common in Yemen, but in fact, the price of gat is not low. ”
However, even if some poor people can't afford to buy Gat, they are still willing to follow Gat, which is difficult to understand.
For example, once, Shi Yanchun witnessed an old man in rags, buying a handful of gat with what he had left, and carefully holding it with trembling hands, leaving the market as if he had obtained the most precious treasure.
Another time, Shi Yanchun chatted with a farmer and asked him what he had bought. The farmer replied that his wife had asked him to come and buy food, but he spent all the money on Gate.
Shi Yanchun asked him how to explain to his wife, and the Yemeni farmer smiled and replied that he would first go to a friend's house to hide, chew on the card by the way, and wait for his wife to fall asleep late at night, and then return to his home.
Due to the chewing of curry by the whole people, many Yemenis have seen "business opportunities" in it, abandoning the cultivation of coffee trees and crops and planting a large number of coffees.
This has dealt a severe blow to Yemen's agriculture and economy, especially after the war began, and poor Yemenis still did not realize how their fascination with Qat would have a negative impact on their desperate situation.
The Yemeni government has tried to introduce a series of measures, but unfortunately, the effect has been minimal, and it has not changed the status quo of Yemenis who have been deeply rooted in the marrow of the ghat.
Thus, whether yemenis can wait for the vitality they crave is not only related to when the war will end, but also whether they can quit Qat. Otherwise, yemenis who have been forgotten by the world will inevitably be "chewed to death" by themselves.