Inside Yemen
Megan Pohler 11/17/2017 Inside Yemen This past year the death toll in Yemen has reached over 10,000 with more than 70,000 people suffering from famine. It has become known as the largest humanitarian crisis in the world by the UN. Few are permitted to enter the country to document the condition of the country. Filmmaker Martin Smith was one of those people and witnessed the consequences of two years of war first hand. The current war began when the Houthis, a rebel group from northern Yemen, took the capital in 2014. Months later, the Saudis responded with a massive air campaign. The bombs dropped on Yemen by the Saudis has devastated the country. In this documentary Smith went to the site of a funeral bombing. It had taken place late last year. The Saudis say they mistook it for a gathering of Houthi officials but ended up killing 26 members of one person’s family along with many more. People no longer pay in cash but in coupons, the entire banking system has basically coll