Human Rights Network: The Houthis committed 100,000 humanitarian violations
English - Monday 20 January 2020 الساعة 08:16 am
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A human rights report stated that the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, had committed about 100,000 violations against civilians in 18 governorates since the invasion of Sana'a in 2014 and until mid-December last year.
The human rights report issued by the Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms monitored more than 14,222 killings of civilians in 18 governorates, including 618 women and 974 children.
The report documents the killing of 646 civilians as a result of mines laid by the Houthi militia, including 123 children and 157 women. It also documented 33,438 civilian casualties due to mines, including 2,447 women and 1,780 children.
He pointed out that the number of kidnapped and forcibly disappeared civilians among the Houthi militants reached about 12,636 kidnapped and hidden persons in 20 Yemeni governorates, including politicians, academics, activists, educators and doctors. Among the abductees, he said, 222 children, 52 women and 7 foreigners were kidnapped.
The network's "Al-Rasd" teams recorded 2537 cases of enforced disappearance of citizens, including 231 women and 158 children. It also monitored 719 cases of torture in Houthi prisons, 21 cases of taking human shields, 48 cases of liquidation inside prisons, 19 deaths due to negligence in prisons, and 23 deaths of detainees with heart attacks.
Crime and Houthi violations included all public and private property such as intrusion and search, looting of property, detonation of homes and mosques, places of worship and political party headquarters, burning of homes, deliberate indiscriminate shelling, stadiums, sports clubs, tourist archaeological sites, looting of camps, occupation of security headquarters, educational and medical institutions, and civilian homes, and their taking of military sites.
In its report, the network indicated that 27,744 cases of violations were monitored in civilian sites, community-based institutions, shops, farms, vehicles for citizens, and the theft of property.
The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms pointed out that the violations included the bombing of 386 houses with "TNT", looting 519 vehicles, in addition to 535 cases of violations against citizens' farms, and 928 cases of looting of holdings.
The team also monitored 5,475 cases of violations of public property, 1692 cases of damage and closure of educational facilities, 1245 cases of damage and closure of health facilities, 1342 cases of looting and seizure of government headquarters, and 110 cases of damage to monuments.
