War in Yemen

Cole Barger
Mr. Roddy
GPHC
31 October 2018
War in Yemen
The civil war in Yemen began because Houthi rebels, who are members of the Shiite side of Islam,
which is a subset of Shia, started demanding a new government and lower fuel costs. The government
was Sunni based, which is the other side of Islam, the Shia’s and Sunni’s are not always on the same
page and have had disputes like this before. The Sunni based government has many allies including:
Saudi Arabia’s coalition and the US, the Shia rebels main ally is Iran. The rebels have started bombing
Saudi Arabian territories like it’s oil tankers for example. This is a very big deal to both Saudi Arabia
and the US, because they can’t risk losing that much in Saudi Arabia. Recently, the Saudi coalition has
increased its efforts in the fight against the Houthi rebels. This has resulted in many civilian deaths, in
fact since the conflict started there have been around 16,000 civilian deaths. There is also around 2
million people displaced and around 22.2 million people that need help. In June of 2018 the coalition
tried to retake Hodeida, which is a coastal area on the western side of Yemen. This has only worsened
the crisis for citizens in Yemen though. The coalition have sent many airstrikes targeting the rebels,
which the rebels responded by sending missiles to hit Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure and territory like I
mentioned earlier. The civil war in Yemen is having a substantial toll on the population and the country
itself. If we were to look at the condition of the average person in Yemen according to Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs, I would say that the people there are in desperate need of basic needs such as food,
shelter and safety. This means that they aren’t able to develop, and we are able to see this in their HDI
chart, which currently has them at a .452. There is also a significant drop starting around 2014, where
they were at .507.

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