A human rights report reveals the atrocities of the Houthi war on the education sector
English - Tuesday 01 June 2021 الساعة 05:44 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
An American human rights center has highlighted the Houthi militia's violations of the education sector and the effects of the group's war on the educational process in Yemen over the past five years.
On Sunday, the American Center for Justice issued a report entitled "The Forgotten Crime", in which it monitors the effects of the war on the education sector in Yemen from 2014 to 2020, the violations that affected the educational process, and the material and human damage it sustained.
The report said, "More than 170,000 male and female teachers living in Houthi militia-controlled areas have been suffering from the interruption of their salaries for 5 years, despite the group's financial ability to pay their salaries, but it is exploiting this humanitarian aspect in political swaps."
It monitored the killing of (1579) teachers and (2624) cases of injury since September 2014, of which the Houthi militia is responsible for 80%, in addition to (621) cases of arrest, (36) cases of enforced disappearance, and (142) cases of forced displacement of teachers, which are the responsibility of the Houthi militia. 70% of these violations.
He added that in Taiz governorate alone, 280 cases of killing and assassination were reported by the Houthi militia, in addition to 180 cases of kidnapping and enforced disappearance.
He pointed out that he monitored (16) cases of assassination of teachers in Aden Governorate, which is under the control of the Transitional Council.
He stated that he had documented the Houthi militia's bombing of 21 schools and the conversion of 14 schools into military barracks and prisons, in addition to documenting the recruitment of 211 children under the age of 15 by the Houthi militia in the governorates of Sanaa and Amran during the past year only.
He confirmed that the Houthi group had recruited 57 children from one school, Al-Ilm and Al-Iman School, in the Bani Hushaish district, east of Sana'a governorate, all of whom were killed on the front lines.
He also confirmed that the Houthi militia had made fundamental changes in the school curricula based on racism, sectarianism, religious and sectarian incitement, and systematically practiced sectarian incitement through school radios in (12) governorates it controlled.
He pointed out that the Houthi militia was singled out with a series of violations against teachers, including the dismissal of (286) teachers from their jobs and the displacement of them from their villages, homes and schools, and replacing them with its members.
The American Center for Justice said that it monitored the Houthi militia forcing students in hundreds of schools to pay compulsory fees amounting to $5 per month in the 12 governorates it controls.
He added that he had verified 500 cases of killing of male and female students in the city of Taiz since the beginning of the war, due to the indiscriminate bombing of schools and residential communities by the Houthi militia. It also monitored 15,000 displaced people due to the war waged by the Houthi militia on the city.
The center confirmed that it verified the killing of 21 teachers and students during the past two years as a result of mines planted by the Houthi militia.
He said that he "verified the Houthi group's use of summer courses as an occasion to spread its ideological ideology and supply the fronts with fighters, even if they are young."
He pointed out that the war in Yemen caused education to deviate from the global assessment of the quality of education, according to the Education Quality Index issued by the World Economic Forum in Davos.
