Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2010

Under Pressure: Social violence over land and water in Yemen

October 2010

Small Arms Survey

Abstract

In February 2007 at least a dozen people, including an 11-year-old boy, were killed during a land dispute between tribesmen from al-Baydha and Sanhan that erupted in a southern suburb of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.