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Yemen under the rule of the Houthi militia (1)... Behavior of Gangs

الأحد 23 يونيو-حزيران 2019 الساعة 08 مساءً / Al-Islah.net - Exclusive
 

  

Despite its overthrow of the Yemeni state and its capital in September 2014 and the imposition of its militia power as a de facto authority, the Houthi militia did not abandon the practice of gangs' behavior, which it began in the Marran Mountains in the governorate of Sa'ada at the end of the last century. It is the behavior that is based on assault, murder, looting, kidnapping and all barbaric practices that gangs have known throughout human history.

 

As long as that is the behavior of the gangs, the Houthi militias began as a small gang in the caves of Marran, carrying out violations and reckless adventures, and adopting the barbarous racial irascibility adopted by symbols of Imamate in Yemen because the Houthi militias believe that the approach of intimidating societies and adversaries as a nature deeply rooted in the racial Imamatical project is the only way to achieve their goals and satisfy their appetite in power, and they believe that the use of violence and the imposition of their anomalous law on the society and its youth, and seek to provide their need of money and weapons to complete their project is the way to return control of Yemen and its people, who revolted against the Imamate on September 26, 1962.

 

The Houthi militias practice all acts of gangs starting from robbery, acts of violence and daily killing, exploiting the aggressiveness and rebellion of their members who lack social and moral values, as well as disregarding the legal frameworks that place their actions in the square of serious crimes and indifferent to its destruction of social peace.

 

Even after their control of the state's civil and military institutions, but the behavior of the gangs is the behavior that governs the Houthi militias within these institutions. Indeed, this behavior increases as the militias, which practice the same behavior as Hezbollah and the rest of the Tehran-funded gangs, become more powerful.

 

Daily killing

 

Since the Houthi militias loyal to Iran have carried out a coup against the state in Yemen, the crimes of these militias have varied over the Yemenis, which represented in the killing, kidnapping, torturing, looting money and property, recruiting children and blowing up houses.

 

In the latest statistics issued by the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations of 2018 alone, it revealed the crimes' size of the Houthi gangs in numbers, where they killed 1,224 civilians and injured 1,220 others, including 332 children. Among the victims were approximately 200 civilians injured by mines planted by the Houthis across the country, including 31 children.

 

In the same year, the Houthi militias executed 34 civilians outside the judicial system, while they killed about 40 abductees under torture in the prisons of the racial militias.

 

In order to form a picture of the size of the crimes of the Houthi gangs against the Yemeni people, a human rights report recorded 159 cases of civilian deaths in Sana'a alone only in 2017, 236 cases of injuries, and it has reached the extent that one of the militants of these gangs kill a citizen or a businessman in cold blood because he refused to pay royalty, or killing athletes, as did the supervisor of the Houthi gangs in the city of Maabar of Dhammar, the most recent was when the Houthis killed the footballer of the coastal al-Hilal Club in Hodeidah, Abdullah al-Bazaz, in March 2018.

 

Abduction, concealment and imprisonment

 

The Iranian Houthi gangs have consistently practiced abductions, enforced disappearances and torture against those who oppose the Imamiate racial project, perhaps the shocking figures announced by human rights organizations on a monthly basis about the number of abductees and the forcibly hidden people show the extent of the Houthis' crimes. There are thousands of abductees and hundreds of people are being forcibly hidden, while the numbers are continuing to increase the survival of the Houthi gangs, who opened their appetite for the horrific torture crimes inside their prisons.

 

Thousands of civilians abducted and forcibly disappeared among activists, media-workers, politicians and educators were subjected to torture sessions that resulted in the deaths of more than 130 abductees, while dozens were affected with diseases and disabilities due to severe torture, as well as being subjected to psychological torture, starvation and threats.

 

Barbaric behavior against women

 

The Houthi's gangs have not left the privacy for women in Yemeni society represented in respecting women and rejecting abusing to women. Indeed, the militias have taken violence as a way of dealing with all voices of opposition and even against women.

 

In March this year, the Yemen Organization for Combating Human Trafficking announced that the number of abducted and forcibly hidden women in Huthi gang prisons have exceeded 160 women, while the militias continue to practice the most egregious and horrific abuses against women in areas under the control of the militias, and they are unprecedented violations in Yemen's history.

 

Women abducted and hidden are subjected to torture, extortion and fabrication of charges, even to the extent that Huthi leaders recognize the crimes of their militias against Yemen's women, while the Houthi gangs continue to degenerate morally.

 

The bombing of houses

 

The bombing of houses considers an Imamate crime with distinction and another kind of terrorism in Yemen, which was practiced by the Imams of the dynasty centuries ago against the Yemenis, and the gangs of Houthi came to revive this crime, since the wars against the citizens of Saada governorate, passing through the southern governorates, before the Houthi militias being declined after liberation.

 

The Coalition Organization of Rasd has revealed the destruction of 922 homes and private and public property in 21 Yemeni governorates and in the areas the crowds of darkness reached between September 2014 to October 2018, where the Houthi terrorism militias blew up 833 private properties and 89 public properties.

 

The Houthi gangs started the year 2019 by systematic mass destruction of homes of citizens in the districts of Kushar in Hajjah governorate. In an unprecedented crime, the militias blew up 13 houses of the village of al-Nnamira, where the citizens of this village were forced by the war to leave their houses and search for safe areas.

 

The looting of property

 

The Houthi gangs have a black record in the looting of all private and public properties that they passing through, starting by looting government institutions and the Central Bank of Yemen. They also have looted the salaries of state employees since the ends of 2016 as well as they have looted traders, businessmen and exchange companies.

 

The Houthi gangs are practiced in collecting money from Yemenis, taking advantage of their control of revenue institutions, imposing customs duties on goods and basic items coming from the legitimate government control areas, in addition to looting citizens through trading in domestic oil and gas in the black markets.

 

The Houthi's gangs stormed hundreds of their opponents' homes and looted them in a way that reflects the crime's primitiveness of these gangs, which have not been left untouched and have looted clothes from the families' cupboards.

 

Perhaps the latest themes of the Houthi gangs in looting is the looting of humanitarian aid provided to relief the Yemeni people, which recently alerted by the World Food Program, which has discovered that the Houthis are stealing this aid to their militias. The World Food Program subsequently suspended aid in areas under the control of the militia.

 

The Iranian Houthi militia did not stop at killing and starving millions of Yemenis for five years from its coup but also exceeded to the looting of relief materials provided by international organizations to the Yemeni people, obstructing humanitarian actions, and harassing and abducting workers in this field.

 

Theft of antiquities

 

The most recent crime of the Houthi gangs is the excavation, theft, sale and smuggling of the antiquities out of Yemen as a trade that generates millions of Riyals for gang leaders whose wealth is multiplied by barbaric practices in looting and robbery, which have reached the extent of the theft of valuable treasures from manuscripts and antiquities deep-rooted in history, including manuscripts of the historic city of Sanaa as well as the manuscripts in Hebrew.

 

An official in the General Authority for the Preservation of Historic Cities has revealed that more than 150 milestones and historical and archaeological sites have been targeted by the militias, including the destruction, looting, shelling and conversion into military barracks since their coup in late 2014, pointing to the disappearance of 60 percent of the mummies of the National Museum in Sana'a, explaining that about 30,000 artifacts and documents have disappeared from the military museum in Sanaa and the Dhamar Museum.

 

In the same context, the Houthi gangs work to efface and distort the civilizational identity of the old city of Sana'a by painting its old buildings and the Gate of Yemen (Bab al-Yemen) with sectarian slogans, difficult to remove without a change in the form and nature of the stones of old buildings that make them lose their archaeological value.

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