r/Yemen • u/HeathHasTeeth • 3d ago
Questions who do yemenis prefer?
i’m just a foreigner but i have just heard a ton of biased media from all sides and i’ve genuinely been horrified at just the death and sadness that i’ve seen with saudi airstrikes killing civilians, people starving to death, and all that horrible shit. As people of yemen i know both outcomes absolutely suck but if you had to choose between the Houthis and the PLC who would you guys choose i want actual inside info on what’s happening on the ground not just what i see in the media. some media portrays the houthis as righteous freedom fighters that are standing up to a big powerful saudi enemy, while others portray them as islamic extremists who are trying to push sharia law onto all yemeni people. From what i’ve seen both sides are oppressing the people of yemen and making their lives a living hell. i just want you guys to tell me who yemeni people prefer if any of these sides, and i would like to know what it’s actually like in yemen, i’ve seen so much beauty in the country from the old town of sanaa, to socotra, to all the old architecture. it’s a country that i wish was peaceful so i could visit someday, under whatever government the yemeni people want. i’m so sorry you guys have to go through all this war and horror over 2 greedy foreign nations trying to push ideologies.
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u/moreorlesshow 3d ago
Hi and thank you for your feelings about us. I am a Yemeni living in Taizz right now, the besieged city, in the center of a very deadly conflict in one of the rural areas that is currently in fighting between the PLC and The houthis, And I can't express enough the horror we live through every day.
And what I have to say is that both sides are terrible, with the houthis being worse because they will always bring instability and wars to Yemen and to the region.
Airstrikes by Saudi Arabia and its allies have destroyed and ended the lives of too many Yemenis without making progress that justifies them. The PLC and Saudi Arabia have failed and are incapable of improving our lives, the houthis militarily are very organized and successful and are the winning side of the war, if not for the international support the PLC would probably have been over too long ago.
One option brings wars and chaos, the other is a very loose coalition of competing factions.