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Kharitah al-jumhuriyah al-'arabiyah al-yamaniyah "Map of the Yemen Arab Republic".
1962171426Sana'a: c.1962. Mining the border between north and south Yemen First and sole edition of this map of North Yemen with unique additions marked "top secret" in Arabic and annotated Kharitah tanbih mawaqi' al-algham "mashru' rif'at" "A map of briefing of the locations of mines of the Rifaat Plan". Although the map itself is undated and information about the "Rifaat Plan" is not publicly available it is possible that the strategy was connected to the Egyptian military officer Kamal Rifaat who visited the Yemen Arab Republic along with Anwar Sadat just after its establishment in 1962. Subsequently the Egyptians provided the YAR with a great deal of military support and advice as Abd Allah al-Sallal the country's first president fought the Federation of South Arabia later South Yemen. The long period of confrontation between North and South Yemen extended throughout the 1970s from the First Yemenite War of 1972 to the Second Yemenite War of 1979. Mines were also laid on the border before the two countries were unified in 1990 and have continued to be planted in subsequent conflicts until the present day. The map shows schematic clusters of minefields beginning due east of Sana'a around Meghdal extending in a line northwards to Wa'ir and then northwest to Jabal Mara' on the border with Saudi Arabia. The consequence of laying these minefields would have been to entrench the border between North and South Yemen the course of which they mirror almost exactly. It is annotated in pencil and colour pencil. Colour map 1000 x 690 mm. Text in Arabic. Creased where folded short closed tears and holes along fold lines and extremities a little soiled in places: a very good copy. unknown
Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 750,00 £GB≈ 1 998,15 €
