As the bombing campaign of Houthi positions in Yemen continued and Saudi Arabia and Egypt threatened ground invasion, the men and women of Taizz, Yemen’s third largest city, came out in thousands last week to protest the Houthi’s take over of their city. The Taizz residents used the most effective weapon they had, but which the international community often ignores: collective, mostly peaceful, resistance.
Peaceful resistance was the same tool that millions of Yemenis wielded so resiliently in 2011, eventually forcing President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign later that year. It was around that time nonviolent movements of the Arab …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
