Posted on 06/18/2015 4:29:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
GENEVA/SANAA: A fistfight erupted on the sidelines of peace talks in Geneva Thursday between supporters of different warring factions in Yemen, underlining the divisions that have thwarted United Nations efforts broker a truce in the near three-month conflict.
Yemeni opponents of the Houthi forces that drove the government into exile interrupted a news conference by Houthi officials, throwing shoes and insulting them as “criminals” and “dogs” who were “killing the children of south Yemen.”
A Saudi-led coalition has been launching airstrikes against the Iran-allied Houthis since late March in a campaign to restore the exiled government and back its armed supporters.
The fighting continued Thursday, with around 30 killed in clashes between Houthis and tribesmen in the central province of Marib, tribal sources said, while the capital Sanaa was hit by airstrikes targeting Houthi military sites.
The peace talks are struggling to bring together the rival factions and, with discussions due to conclude Friday or Saturday, delegates have reported little progress toward the cease-fire the U.N. has requested.
Hamza al-Houthi, head of the Houthi delegation to the U.N.-sponsored talks, stayed composed throughout the brawl that began when a woman in a pink headscarf went to the podium and threw a shoe at him, a particular insult in the Arab world.
A fistfight then broke out between Houthis and protesters before the latter were escorted out.
A representative of Yemen’s General People’s Congress, which is allied to the Houthis, said they supported a pause to let humanitarian aid into Yemen but doubted others would do the same.
“We are absolutely in favor of a humanitarian truce. I don’t think this pause receives the approval of Saudi Arabia, after all they are aggressing us, it is up to them,” Yasser al-Ewady told reporters in Geneva.
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How ironic.
Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here. This is the WAR room!
That movie is just weird.
A truly terrific movie from start to finish.
Watch the face of the Russian ambassador as Strangelove is fighting his robotic arm. He almost laughs at least a couple of times.
Is it? It seemed pretty normal when it came out...
I think it’s nice when people are open about their loathing one another.
Came here to post exactly that.
Thanks Pete, that’s the first thing I thought of when I read the title.
Too bad the process is so messed up and I am deeply saddened for the plight of so many innocent people caught up in the maddnes of war but I never dreamed things would devolve to this point and now I just can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all.
Nice. You made it in by the third post. ;o)
I was going to post an “In before the GYCFIHTITWR” but I thought it would be too obscure, even for FReepers.
Melee erupts at Yemen Peace Talks....
I hate when that happens.
We’re a pretty sharp bunch. Somebody would have figured it out.
That quote immediately came to mind.
I’ve watched it once and its just strange. I don’t understand it, nor the point it was trying to make. It seemed like a mish mash of satire and weirdness.
Exactly. Pretty much like day to day living those days.
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