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It often happens because the country never made any sense. There used to be two Yemens caught between the Ottomans and the British. The North became an indepen
by jltsiren 3y ago
It often happens because the country never made any sense.
There used to be two Yemens caught between the Ottomans and the British. The North became an independent kingdom and then a republic, while the South was first a British protectorate and then a communist state. Both had civil wars, and there were at least two wars between the two. When communism fell in Europe, the two Yemens unified and had a civil war. Then there were a couple of decades of uneasy peace before the current war.
- alephnerd 3y ago4 Yemens not 2 Aden Colony was it's own thing until the emergency. Basically an middle eastern Hong Kong or Singapore The southern Emirates were their own thing until the late 60s Hadhramut was it's own protectorate until 1967. North Yemen (where the Houthis are from) was in the midst of a civil war between Commies and Zaidis. The Commies won, but the Zaidis got the last laugh by overthrowing Saleh and starting the Houthi movement.