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A French website, “Mediapart”, said that the Saudi-led coalition, which has been bombing Yemen for nearly four years, has set some parts of Yemen back to the Stone Age while other parts 100 years back in time.
The war-torn country’s infrastructure has vanished, epidemics have spread, famine has taken hold of large parts of the country and the lifestyles of the population have changed due to the Saudi-led aggression.
“Many of the people who fled the fighting are now returning to their homes, even when their homes are on or near the frontline,” Clare Hennig, a Medicine Son Frontier (MSF) staff who has spent several months in Yemen during 2018, told the French website.
“Nowadays, Yemenis prefer to cultivate their lands and try to live with their productive efforts as they did 100 years ago,” Hennig added. “This kind of society has strong family ties and hates to stay at refugee camps.”
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of Yemen's former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, back to power and crushing the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The aggression has killed some 15,000 people and injured thousands. More than 2,200 others have died of cholera and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
