Official figures on the deaths in the Yemen War have been virtually
unavailable, or at least years out of date. The database tracker from
the Armed Conflict and Location Event Data Project, however, issued
their own data on Yemen Thursday, showing more than 70,000 have been killed in Yemen just since January 2016.
This is a huge amount of deaths, and if there is some decrease in
fighting in Hodeidah because of UN talks, it’s not like the war is
slowing much. At least 10,000 people were killed just in the past five
months.
The decline in Hodeidah was made up for by substantial increases in
fighting in Taiz and Hajjah. Stopping the fighting in Hodeidah was still
important, since it prevented a famine that could’ve killed even more
people, but the combatants have largely just started fighting elsewhere.
The database included 3,155 direct attacks targeting civilians, with
more than 7,000 civilians killed. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of
the civilians were killed by the Saudi-led coalition, at least 4,800,
while the Houthis killed about 1,300 civilians.
More Than 70,000 Killed in Yemen’s Civil War: Database Tracker
10,000 estimated killed in just the past five months
Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.
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