A human rights report dealing with the mass massacres committed by the terrorist Houthi militia against the residents of the capital, Sana'a, over the past five years, and stressed the importance of raising the accountability file at this time so that the perpetrators of these crimes are punished.

According to those in charge of the center, the report of the Al-Asima Media Center entitled (Sana'a and blood... Victims of the Houthi mass massacres awaiting the removal of injustice from them and the achievement of justice) aims to contribute to exposing the Houthi crimes and violations committed against the people of Sana'a and ensuring that the perpetrators of these crimes are brought to justice and the injustice is removed from the victims.

The Center stresses that the report came in conjunction with the passage of forty days since the killing of the victims of the stampede massacre that took place last April and as an expression of the excluded voice of Sana’a, which was attacked early by the Iranian-backed militia, and is still practicing the most heinous violations against citizens, which necessitates remembering those crimes and putting them on the table of any negotiation that wants peace without achieving any justice or removing injustice from the oppressed.

The report that was announced today focused on the fact that the citizen and resident of the capital, Sana’a, not only lost security for his life and the lives of his family and children but also no longer had security for his property in light of the policy of plundering that is being practiced by the Houthi militia, which is detaining more than two million people (they are the residents of the capital) as hostages in its areas of control, where it may put them at any moment in danger, committing massacres and mass killings against them.

The report said that the suffering in Sana'a is a tragic embodiment of the Yemeni crisis after the Houthi militia singled out the population in order to practice all kinds of violations against them. This militia has also deprived them of their most basic rights by confiscating their freedom and restricting their movements so that the population turns day after day into living in what resembles a large prison, in which the militia has worked to besiege it with dozens of incidents and crimes in order to ensure the continuation of its security grip and its destructive sectarian policy.

At a time when the report reminds the international community and public opinion that had interacted and then reduced their interaction with the recent crime committed by the militia against the residents of Sana’a, which is the crime of stampede, which was considered one of the largest crimes that the world witnessed during the past decade, the report confirms that although this case and other issues are purely humanitarian the militia was supposed to hold accountable those who caused this crime to occur, it dealt with it according to its racism and policy that does not see the right to life except for its followers, where this militia tried to manipulate these issues by accusing the families of the victims or the Arab Alliance, in a clear renunciation of its responsibility as a de-facto authority, contented itself with promoting illusion and making promises to those seeking to remove injustice from the oppressed.

The report stated that the crime that occurred on April 18, 2023, which resulted in approximately 85 deaths and more than 322 injuries. This incident took place in Maeen School in Old Sana’a, and it was committed under the auspices of the Houthis, as confirmed by the evidence and facts, and preceded it with other measures, including preventing merchants from distributing zakat except through its bodies that it established for this purpose.

The report indicated that this stampede crime is added to another series of mass crimes committed in Sana’a during the last five years, which were committed against the residents of the capital, Sana’a, from 2019 until the first half of the year 2023, where the number of victims of the massacres exceeded 170 dead and 660 injured from different age groups as well as African immigrants.

The report described the crime of stampede as the night in which Sana'a was drenched in blood, which led to the death of more than 85 citizens and the injury of more than 322 others, in an incident considered by many to be one of the largest stampede incidents in the world during the last decade. The report indicated that the militia was directly involved in this crime based on the measures that were taken after its occurrence, where the militia tried to disclaim its responsibility and contented itself with forming committees to investigate and also announced the conduct of a mock trial for a number of those involved without allowing the appointment of a team of lawyers to defend the families of the victims as minimum proper procedure indicates the soundness of its intention to remove injustice from those who were killed in this crime.

It said that all the evidence and statements made by the witnesses indicate that the shooting by Houthi elements was the reason for the stampede of people in the school, and after the escape operation from the school began, an electric short occurred at the school gate, and then the disaster occurred that resulted in the killing of 85 citizens who were in the school in order to obtain the money, but lost their lives and did not return to their children and families.

The report continued, "While the Houthi militia claims to have conducted an investigation into the causes of the deadly stampede, the feeling of fear and sadness still dominates Sana'a. Pictures of piled clothes and torn shoes and crutches piled on top of each other appeared while the stained stairs with blood leading to the school stayed a witness to the crime that will not be subject to a statute of limitations.”

It added, "Also, the Houthi militia has taken successive measures with the aim of absorbing the state of anger that followed the crime and diluting the issue through its media outlets, which are trying in vain to accuse the Arab Alliance, but it is not aware that it is involved and that the crime will not turn away from it because it caused the gathering of this large number of people, and then its members opened fire, not caring about those present.”

The authors of the report emphasized that the center's monitoring team did not include the latest statistics of the victims in these crimes, because the militia was providing misleading information with each incident, manipulating the real numbers, and exploiting the victims and their relatives, and after each crime, the militia was practicing a set of violations other than manipulation of numbers, including preventing the mass funeral of the bodies at any funeral procession, but rather, the militia buried a number of victims without giving the opportunity to be identified by their families.

As for the misleading practice, the report took the facts of the first crime to prove it, which is the crime of murder of 14 female students from Al-Raee School in the Sa'wan region and the injury of more than 100 people in the crime of the explosion of the Houthi missile manufacturing site, in which the militia tried to blame the Arab Alliance, and then resorted to misleading the families of the victims, who did not care about the Houthi misleading, yet those families are still waiting for justice to be achieved.

It said that the explosion that occurred on April 7, 2019, all facts and evidence proved the Houthi militia's involvement in it, where this incident was the result of the explosion of a militia weapons depot located approximately 300 meters from the Al-Raee School in the Sa'wan area, northeast of the capital, Sana'a.

The report found that the occurrence of victims reached another school (Al-Ahqaf Private School) and approximately two hundred residential buildings, where the capital lived at the time the tragedy of the explosion, which seemed to it to be mysterious, and that the militia was quick to practice misleading in the crime, which tried to blame the Arab coalition through its clear disavowal The intentional evasion of responsibility for the crime and its consequences.

The report said, quoting multiple sources, that the details of the crime that the Houthis tried to hide traces of and falsify its facts, we find that the explosion was due to the explosion of highly explosive materials used in the manufacture of missiles in a Houthi manufacturing workshop.

"This crime, which took place more than five years ago, will remain the most prominent and witness that the Houthi militia has taken the residents of Sana'a as human shields and is practicing its crimes in full view of the world, despite its violation of international laws that provide for the protection of civilians from conflicts, including children who are the most affected in this, there is no doubt that in addition to killing a number of them with severe psychological trauma, it will continue to affect their lives.”

The report also dealt with the Holocaust of African Migrants, which it described as the groove that was held in Sana’a on the seventh of March of the year 2021, where the Houthi militia placed nearly 900 immigrants, most of them Ethiopians, in a detention facility that is not suitable for human detention in the Passports and Immigration building in Sana’a and subjected them to death after its members threw bombs at them, in which, according to the Houthis and international organizations, 44 people were killed and 202 detainees were injured.

The report said that the Africans who were killed and injured in this heinous crime were subjected to compound injustice, first by the Houthis who committed this crime, and secondly by human rights organizations that contented themselves with condemnation at the time, and then did not exercise any pressure on the Houthi militia or condemn it internationally and their trial before the International Criminal Court because it is a crime equivalent to a war crime.

It stated that international organizations, including those emanating from the United Nations, had compelling evidence of this crime, but ignored it and negotiated with the Houthis without mentioning any of these crimes.

"Days after the crime, the Houthi militia announced the formation of an investigation committee, but the results of this investigation have not appeared to the public until this day, which necessitates the formation of an international committee to investigate it and uncover the circumstances of the crime and the subsequent blurring of its features, both for the location of the incident and the identities of the burnt bodies."

The third issue, which the report talked about at length, is the issue of children with cancer (Leukemia) who died of a fatal dose of medication, where the victims and their families were misled, and then the Houthi abuse that continues to this day.

It said that the militia tried to refuse to recognize more than 10 of the children, while it recognized only 10 in late September 2022, until its features appeared in October of the same year, that is, a few days after the children received a lethal dose that was given to them in a specialized center affiliated with the Kuwait Teaching Hospital.

It added that all the certificates obtained confirm the involvement of the militia leaders in the health sector, the first of whom is called Taha al-Mutawakel and others in the Supreme Authority for Medicines, reaching the Baladna Foundation for Relief and Development and the Anti-Cancer Fund, which are the two parties that distributed the medicine, and they were established by the Houthi militia to obtain relief and humanitarian aid and selling on the black market.

The report stated that the number of children who were exposed to the lethal dose amounted to more than 80 children, of whom 20 died and 45 children were injured, while some of them recovered and others died, but they concealed the issue of death for fear of the Houthis' reaction, knowing that the drug is "Methotrexate 50 mg" that is produced by Indian company Celon.

In response to these crimes, the report stresses the need to raise the file of criminal accountability against human rights violators in Yemen, calling for benefiting from recent international moves to find a formula for peace in Yemen in order to remove injustice from the residents of Sana'a and not to leave these crimes that amount to war crimes without accountability. This necessitates finding guarantees first in order to achieve justice, otherwise talking about peace will be just talking about a mirage and an illusion.