A new Houthi move inside Sana'a schools

English - Monday 08 March 2021 الساعة 06:05 pm
NewsYemen, Al-Sharq Awsat:

Educational sources in Sanaa reported that the Houthi militias returned three days ago to implement a new wave targeting the capital's schools to recruit teachers and students to support the fronts of the group and compensate for the human losses among its fighters, especially on the Marib and Al-Jawf fronts.

The sources talked about the group’s initiation of the recruitment and collection campaign against the affiliates of this sector in all schools in Sana’a, the capital, and other cities under its control, in conjunction with subjecting educators and young students in all schools to receive sectarian courses at the end of each week.

While the group continues to plunder the salaries of teachers in its regions, the sources talked about the group’s launch of a field visit to schools, under the name: “Campaign to spend and supply fronts with fighters and money,” as the campaign affected dozens of public and private schools in Sanaa, and the group obliged workers in the educational field through it.  And students to pledge to join the recruitment camps and donate money.


The educational sources accused the group of seeking to re-target educational institutions to gain more money at the expense of students and their teachers who have been deprived of their salaries for years, as well as to mobilize new fighters to be fuel for the war that the militias continue to ignite on more than one front.  Teachers in Sanaa confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that Houthi committees, led by directors of departments and agents in education appointed by the group, and officials at the level of education offices in the capital and its directorates, have gone to schools, to deliver lectures calling for support of the fronts with fighters, and to provide money for victory, according to the leaders' claim  community.

Meanwhile, educational workers in Sana'a expressed their indignation and mockery at the Houthi leaders ’call to them through those campaigns to provide support for the war effort.  Some of them told Al-Sharq al-Awsat: “How can this terrorist group ask us to leave the task of educating students and join its ranks?  How can it also allow itself to ask us to provide money for the benefit of its fronts, while it has continued until the moment to steal and plunder our salaries for years? ”


The educators explained that the militias are working to take revenge on them, as a result of what they said was to continue their education for students in schools despite all circumstances, so that they would not be left as prey or easy morsels in the hands of the group.

In continuation of the repeated crimes against the education sector in the Houthi-controlled areas, the educational workers spoke of the continuing obligation of teachers and students of public schools in Sana'a to receive sectarian lectures given by the group's teachers in designated halls every Wednesday.

Concerning the group’s continuing battle to bomb the educational process, students and parents in Sana’a told Asharq Al-Awsat that Houthi school principals granted students in their schools 15 degrees in each subject, in exchange for each student bringing his mother or guardian to the school to receive  Intellectual cycles.

Local and other international reports confirmed that the group, Iran's ally in Yemen, was not content with destroying the education sector in its areas of control, by plundering teachers ’salaries, targeting and bombing schools, closing some of them and transferring others to military barracks, but rather sought with all its energy to create an alternative sectarian education that incites violence and hate killing.  And he works to booby-trap and wash the minds of the Houthi sectarian ideology.

The United Nations experts confirmed, in a report, that the group has hindered the country for twenty years in terms of development and access to education, while the Human Development Report indicated that Yemen had made advanced stages in eliminating ignorance and was making progress in education.

Total enrollment in primary schools was unprecedented in 2013.

Since their coup, the militias have been working to revive backwardness and ignorance, and in return they practiced a destructive policy towards the education sector, as they placed many challenges and obstacles before it, including the freezing of public spending on education and stopping the payment of salaries, which represented the most serious challenges to the educational process, in addition to targeting schools and using them for purposes. Military, closing more than 2,500 schools, and depriving hundreds of thousands of students from education.

Earlier, the Yemeni government accused the group of systematically destroying education, by depriving about two million children of education and killing and injuring 3,900 workers in the educational sector, and nearly 3,600 teachers were arrested and forcibly disappeared, and more than 20 percent of teachers engaged in combat actions as a result of the interruption. Their salaries.