The local and international reactions denouncing the forced displacement of more than 200 families from the Jabal Al-Faras neighborhood in the city of Crater in the interim capital of Aden by the Southern Transitional, as well as the burning of their homes Council militia have continued since Sunday.

Anas Jerjawi, Director of Operations at the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, said that the displacement of the local population and the displaced in Aden is a dangerous practice that may amount to a war crime, an act prohibited under international humanitarian law and human rights law.

He added that targeting the displaced by expulsion leads to aggravating their suffering and deepening their humanitarian crisis, where most families who ordered to evacuate their homes suffer from poverty and severe weakness, but they are now facing a new challenge of finding shelters or housing to live after being displaced from their homes.

In a statement issued by it, the Euro-Mediterranean Monitor stressed that the practices of forced displacement fall within the framework of crimes against humanity under international humanitarian law, where it was stated in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court that “the deportation or forcible transfer of the population, when it is committed in the framework of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population constitutes a crime against humanity.” And also the Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 prohibits the individual or mass forcible transfer of persons or their deportation from their areas of residence to other lands.

It called the Southern Transitional Council for an immediate halt to forced displacement, respect for the supposed protection of civilians in the rules of international humanitarian law, and an end to all practices that may contribute to complicating the humanitarian situation in the areas it controls.

It called on the United Nations to put pressure on the parties and countries that have influence over the Southern Transitional Council to lift the political cover for its arbitrary practices and push for its obligation to respect the rights of Yemenis and to hold all those responsible for the complex violations witnessed by the areas controlled by the Southern Transitional Council in the south of the country accountable.

For his part, Abdul Karim al-Saadi, head of the Southern Civil Forces Assembly, said that the burning of citizens' homes in Crater and the expulsion of its residents shows the extent of the catastrophic situation in the city of Aden at the hands of regional extremists.

In his post on his Facebook account, he added that this crime confirms that Aden is under the grip of criminal terrorist regional militias and gangs.

He pointed out that the state has its own ways and means to stop the random tampering that harms the demographic planning of cities and the building law in them, affirming that burning homes and expelling people without finding alternatives is not one of these means.

Al-Saadi demanded to quickly stop the attempts to change the demographics of the city of Aden, to erase its identity, to exile its people, to practice terrorism against them and to violate their rights.

He added that correcting the imbalanced conditions in Aden in all respects and avoiding targeting citizens just for their coming out in demonstrations to demand their legitimate rights.

Lawyer Huda al-Sarari, head of the organization of Defense for Rights and Freedoms, held the governor of Aden, Ahmed Lamlas, and the Southern Transitional Council responsible for the systematic displacement of more than 200 families from the Jabal Al-Faras neighborhood in Crater city in the interim capital, Aden, and the burning of their homes, stressing that the systematic displacement is against displaced families and marginalized families who live in Aden that is being practiced by the security belts and militias affiliated with the Southern Transitional Council, is a flagrant violation of their right to citizenship and their right to move and live in dignity, security and peace.

In an intervention on the Al-Mahra satellite channel, on Sunday, al-Sarari explained that most of those who were displaced are marginalized residents of Aden who usually live in these remote and marginalized areas, in addition to a number of displaced people who fled the scourge of war in Houthi-controlled areas and took the city of Aden as shelters for them.

Lawyer Heba Aidarous, head of the Sawasia Organization for Human Rights and Freedoms, said that the displacement of the population and the burning of their homes, which were carried out by the militias of the Southern Transitional Council, are ill-considered actions that indicate a failure in the administration of the local authority, demanding them through her Facebook account to bear the material and moral consequences of these violations.

For her part, activist Lula Saleh, member of the Executive Committee of the Yemeni Organization for Rights and Democratic Freedoms, described the displacement of the population and the burning of their homes, which were implemented by the Southern Transitional Council militias, as a Houthi culture.

Through her Facebook account, Lula Saleh said, "It is unfortunate that the culture of the Houthis has been brought back to the south in this barbaric and hateful manner," pointing out that the behavior of these forces was supposed to be security and professional, far from the style of militias and mafia gangs.

She regretted the silence of the local authority and security leaders in Aden as if they were encouraging these behaviors, which deviated from the legal framework and became like settling personal scores.

The head of the organization of the Observer Human Rights, Anis al-Sharik, had revealed the burning of houses in other neighborhoods in Crater city by the Southern Transitional Council militias, and families and children were expelled in the street on charges of belonging to Imam al-Nubi.

Through his Facebook account, Anis al-Sharik said that burning houses is an alien culture in Aden society and is a dangerous gesture, warning of the occurrence of war crimes by the militias of the Southern Transitional Council against the residents of Crater if the tampering and violations taking place there are not stopped.

Al-Sharik held the governor of Aden and the presidency of the Southern Transitional Council responsible for what the residents of Crater are being exposed to.