{"id":18223,"date":"2021-06-17T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/?p=18223"},"modified":"2021-06-17T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:29:46","slug":"18223-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/18223-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLED: Landmines\/IEDs behind many of 1,268 reported civilian fatalities in 2019-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1524156224953{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1623928321444{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]Thousands have been killed by Houthi forces in Yemen between 2019 and 2020, according to the latest report by the Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data Project (ACLED).<\/p>\n<p>ACLED&#8217;s annual review reviews the past 12 months of data on political violence and demonstration activity around the world. Despite the overall decline, political violence actually increased in nearly half (49%) of all countries covered by ACLED. The countries that experienced the most violence in 2020 &#8211; Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, Mexico, and Afghanistan &#8211; are the same countries that topped the list in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">in Yemen, ACLED found that 1,273 events with &#8220;direct civilian targeting&#8221; by the &#8220;primary perpetrator of this violence in this country&#8221; &#8211; Houthi <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">military forces &#8211; resulted in 1,268 reported civilian fatalities in 2019-2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">This data includes explosions and remote violence such as remove explosions, landmine and improvised explosive device (IED) v<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">iolence, the project said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whilst it said its classification does not imply legitimacy, ACLED said it treats the forces allied with both the government of President Hadi and the Houthi-led executive bodies as <a href=\"https:\/\/acleddata.com\/acleddatanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ACLED_10Conflicts_2021_Web_Final.pdf\">state forces in Yemen<\/a>, as it currently exist two distinct governing authorities exercising de facto control over different portions of Yemeni territory.<\/p>\n<p>Read or download ACLED&#8217;s 2020 Year In Review report <a href=\"https:\/\/acleddata.com\/acleddatanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ACLED_AnnualReport2020_WebMar2021_PubUpd.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1524156224953{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1623928321444{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]Thousands have been killed by Houthi forces in Yemen between 2019 and 2020, according to the latest report by the Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data Project (ACLED). ACLED&#8217;s annual review reviews the past 12 months&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18227,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18223\/revisions\/18227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}