Risk of mass killing rose most in Yemen in 2016: report

Yemen has been named the country where the risk of genocide or mass killing rose the most last year, according to a UK-based rights group. In its annual “Peoples Under Threat” index released on Thursday, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) placed Syria at the top of the list for the third consecutive year. But the […]

Yemen has been named the country where the risk of genocide or mass killing rose the most last year, according to a UK-based rights group.

In its annual “Peoples Under Threat” index released on Thursday, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) placed Syria at the top of the list for the third consecutive year.

But the MRG index found that risks rose most markedly in Yemen last year as the war raged on, with more than 10,000 people killed and millions driven from their homes.

Yemen has been torn apart by conflict since 2014, when Houthi rebels, allied with troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, captured large expanses of the country, including the capital, Sanaa.