“Exclusive investigation”, on M6, plunges into heart of a dirty war in Yemen, seen from rebellious side

The Bernard de la Villardière magazine offers an immersion at the heart of a conflict too rarely shown, on the side of the Houthis fighters.

The war in Yemen is too rarely shown. Even more on the side of the Houthist rebellion. Usually the images are turned on the coalition side for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which controls access to the country, and the forces remained loyal to the internationally recognized president, Mansour Hadi.

The interest of Guillaume Dasquié and Nicolas Jarald, who spent several weeks in rebellious territory, is therefore to show the other side of this war. And, in the way, helps to see Sanaa again, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

The Houthist rebellion, which took power in 2014 by invading the capital, Sanaa, controls a much smaller territory than that of its enemies but where more than 60% of the Yemeni population focus. Its only maritime outlet is the port of Hodeida, on the Red Sea. Humanitarian aid filtered by a severe blockade, when it is not hijacked, there comes to the dropper and often out of date.

This rebellious Yemen lacks all: food, medicines, gas, building materials. Everything is rationed and the blockade unfolds in all its cruelty: spinal children, exhausted by dysentery, contaminated by impoverished uranium contained in the bombs dropped by planes. At any time, the Saudi and Emirati bombers can hit. Sometimes in full wedding or burial ceremonies, causing massacres of countless civilians on the pretext of aiming a target of “high level”.

a functional state

The French lawyer Joseph Braham accompanies the two journalists in order to document war crimes, crimes against humanity and case of torture committed by the coalition for a complaint filed at the center treating genocide and crimes against the Humanity of the Judicial Court of Paris, against the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – Friends and Allies of France.

The Shiite rebellion, supported by Iran, is far from formed of choir children. The authors are hardly illusions on this point. But the merit of their documentary is to give the floor to the Hushist leaders, that we rarely hear, such as Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, President of the Revolutionary Committee, or Jalal Al-Roweichan, responsible for security services. They built a state, unusual, certainly, but functional.

The Demanding Camp, he, is completely fragmented between Saudi and emirati, Sudanese supplements, soldiers of what remains of the Yemeni loyal army, tribal or religious militias. The authors evoke the troubles between the coalition, the Yemeni Vice President Ali Mohsen, and Sunni fundamentalists, including those of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, Attack Sponsor against Charlie Hebdo. The friends of our friends are sometimes our enemies. The arithmetic hard of geopolitics.

/Media reports.