Home Human Rights The defeated Houthi forcibly mobilize elders and children for Iran

The defeated Houthi forcibly mobilize elders and children for Iran

Increasing popular outrage at the Houthis’ terrorist practices against the people.

Amidst the retreat and successive defeats that the Houthis are receiving on the ground in the Battle of Yemen’s Marib as a result of strikes by the Arab coalition and popular resistance, Iranian pressure is increasing on them to maintain the areas they have recently occupied at all costs, causing the Houthis to push hundreds of their fighters to death, as well as to endanger the lives of the civilian population and at risk and used as human shields.

Kidnapping of tribal elders

The Houthis have recently confirmed all reports of law condemning them through their practices against tribal leaders in areas under their control and the theft of their money and property, as well as by trying to force them to engage their children in conflict in defense of them and Iranian ambitions in the region.

In this context, local Yemeni sources revealed that the Houthi militia had kidnapped six senior sheikhs and notables of the tribes of “Khayran Al Muharraq District”, “Aslam”, “Al-Khamisin” and “Ad Dāna‘ī” after refusing to bring their sons to the fronts to fight in its ranks and strengthen Marib’s fronts and the western coast. They incur heavy losses, and because of their disobedience to “Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi’s directives,” according to the Houthis.

The sources indicated that the kidnapped sheikhs are Muhammad Shaabin, Ahmad Darin, Muhammad Akran, Sheikh of Bani Akran, and Hadi Darayeb, in addition to Muhammad Saghir Bakaa and Muhammad Qasim Sadah.

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Killing and Divestment

It is worth noting that the Houthis have repeatedly adopted this method, as they arrest the sheikhs and pressure them in order to provide fighters from their sons to engage them in battles, and this method is renewed today after the significant attrition of Houthi human power.

In the case of failure to respond, the sheikh would face the fate of being killed, as happened with the tribal Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maqari, who local sources reported that he was killed in the Al-Sahool area in the Ibb governorate in central Yemen at the hands of Houthi gunmen, one of whom is one of his relatives. He ordered him to mobilize children and young people to the battlefronts.

The sources stated that Al-Maqari was killed after refusing to direct the supervisor of the Houthi province, who ordered him to mobilize children and young people to the battlefronts.

In addition, the popular and official anger at the Houthi terrorist practices against the people and their being dragged behind Iranian policies and cupidity, the Yemeni Minister of Information Muammar Al-Eryani launched a campaign on social media to expose these practices and convey the voice of Yemenis to the world. Al-Eryani called on everyone to participate in the campaign he launched under the hashtag #Houthi_Iranian_made.

Children are the fuel of war

Not only that, but the recruitment of young children under the age of 18 continues in abundance, according to international reports, Yemen occupies an advanced position with regard to the recruitment of children on the battlefronts.

Yemeni children

Yemeni local sources have also reported on the development of Houthi violations against Yemen’s children. After being forcibly recruited into the fighting, the Houthi militia distributed “Kalashnikov” personal weapons in several schools in the capital, Sana’a.

The parents who were near the Ibn Majid School located in the neighborhood were surprised. The politician unloaded trucks of equipment and weapons at the school crowded with students, while leaders of the Houthi militia distributed motorcycles, personal weapons and combat clothing at the school, which is one of the largest boys’ schools in Sana’a.

The leaders involved

Mayyon Human Rights Organization, a Yemeni non-governmental organization, identified in a report issued at the end of last September, a list of the names of the most prominent leaders of the Houthi group involved in the recruitment and recruitment of children. The organization documented through a field monitoring team in the capital Sana’a and the governorates under the control of The Houthis “involved 125 leaders in the recruitment of children, led by Yahya Badr al-Din al-Houthi (brother of the group’s leader and Minister of Education in the militia government), Muhammad Badr al-Din al-Houthi, Abdul Karim Amir al-Din al-Houthi (brother of the group’s leader), and Muhammad Ali al-Houthi (head of the Revolutionary Committee). Abdul Majeed Al Houthi, Ahmed Dirham Al Moayedi, Ahmed Mohamed Hamid (Director of the Presidential Office), Abdo Al Mohsen Al Tawoos, and Dhaif Allah Rassam.

Yahya Badr al-Din al-Houthi

Statistics and reports

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in Geneva, reported that 10,000 children had been killed or injured in Yemen since the conflict began.

In a press release, James Alder, the organization’s spokesman, said that “the conflict in Yemen has crossed a shameful line with the threshold of 10,000 children killed or maimed since the fighting began in March 2015, which equates to four children a day.”

The Deputy Permanent Representative of Yemen to the United Nations, Marwan Noman, announced last September that militia had recruited more than 35,000 children since 2014, 17% of them under the age of 11, while more than 6,700 children remained on the fronts.

Marwan Noman

In turn, the US envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, emphasized in the same month that the Houthis’ recruitment of child soldiers and the military escalation are all practices that undermine peace efforts.

A Yemeni human rights network documented 20,977 cases of violations against Yemeni children, in addition to the transmigration and displacement of more than 43,000 children by militias from January 2017 to March 2021.

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