THE HINDU EDITORIAL NOTES September 18,2019 1) Red sea red lines and Yemen's inflection point Yemen is currently embroiled in a civil war between the Saudi supported Government forces and Iran backed Houthi rebels. Yemen although located at Southwest of oil rich Arab peninsula ,is a poor country ,due to lack of oil resources and decades long ethnic strife between northern Shia dominated groups and southern Sunni dominated groups. The year 1930 saw Yemen being coerced by powerful neighbor Saudi Arabia to cede some territories,this was first of many foreign intervention in Yemen's politics. In 1960s war to depose Imam and to establish Republic , Saudi Arabia rooted for monarchy and Egypt backed republican forces,finally a Yemeni republic was established.A fully united Yemen was founded on 1990,but secessionist elements of south tried to cede away . Since 2000 there has been insurrection movement against top leaders ,in 2011 the Yemeni Arab spring movement took pl...
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