Yemen’s Southern Question during the Saudi Intervention: Unpacking Contrasting Discourses

There is a wide gulf between the Southern Movement’s depiction in international media and how southerners see their struggle as one of national liberation rather than a minority rights issue.

by Thanos Petrouis

On March 26, 2015, civil war officially broke out in Yemen. On that day, Saudi Arabia marshaled a hastily convened coalition of the willing to forcibly intervene in Yemen’s internal affairs, launching an all out armed conflict between forces loyal to the ‘legitimate government’ of president ‘Abd al-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and supporters of …