Iran's arm mines claim Yemenis' limbs and lives
English - Saturday 19 March 2022 الساعة 02:28 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
From Taiz governorate, passing through Hajjah, Al Hudaydah, Shabwa, Al Jawf, Marib, Al Dhale’, Al Bayda, Lahj, and Abyan to Sana’a, the Houthis were able to plant thousands of mines, which he made of them as a basic weapon in order to take the largest number of civilian lives.
During the seven years of war, this group turned most of Yemen, especially the northern governorates, into a hotbed of mines, leaving no area without its mines, valleys, farms, roads, even the desert.
The pictures that were circulated throughout the years of the war, in the media and reports of international and local organizations, showed; The enormity of what Iran’s arm has committed against the Yemeni people, with all its groups and sects.
Limbs were here
Elham Shoui is a girl who went looking for a meal for her family in late 2019, only missed the road, not realizing that she was walking in a field of mines and that she would return without legs.
Elham from Hajjah Governorate, Abs District, one of thousands of child victims, who did not go the wrong way; It was the war merchants who made this land paths to death, amputation, and the killing of infants in the cradle.
Reports indicate that planting mines in large quantities has caused thousands of Yemenis to lose their lives, while some have been permanently disabled as a result of losing parts of their bodies, which constitutes a future burden on the family and the individual himself. It also creates a dangerous psychological atmosphere.
In Hodeidah, which is not far from Hajjah, 6 civilians from one family were recently killed, the last frightening incident as a result of the laying of mines by the militia, specifically on Wednesday, March 16th.
The accident took place in El Gherassi tour inside the city, which resulted in severe damage to the vehicles that were parked in the same location.
This incident is another consistent evidence, condemning the militia on the West Coast after it was turned into minefields. Residential places, roads and farms were cultivated, causing the largest number of victims, most of them women and children.
Latest stats
The latest statistics announced by the (Masam) project, about 325,227 mines and unexploded ordnance have been recovered in Yemen until March 2022, since the project began working years ago, specifically in mid-June 2018.
A disastrous statistic indicates that the remainder is just a time bomb that will leave thousands of victims, especially since most of the fields have been planted randomly.
In one week, the same project announced that 1,352 mines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices had been removed, with a total of 2,438 since the beginning of this March, in several governorates.
The Masam project, since it began its work in Yemen, has provided nearly 30 dead, including 5 foreign experts, in addition to more than 32 wounded, according to data issued by the Mine Media Observatory.
Another example is Taiz
In the governorate of Taiz, which is linked to Hodeidah, which is within the areas of the West Coast, hundreds of cases have been documented during the war, which continues to claim thousands of civilians.
The latest statistics say that more than 3,263 civilians have been victims of Houthi mines in 5 years, and that the number of civilian deaths that have been documented is 942, including 223 children, 217 women and 502 men; This statistic is up to last March of 2021.
According to the Landmine Media Observatory, the number of casualties in the same governorate was documented at 2,321, including 406 children, 365 women, as well as 1,550 men.
Tragic stories
The mines have left tragic stories in Yemen that have not occurred since the Second World War. Reports indicate that Iran’s arm is still exercising its most dangerous identity in the confrontations on the ground, as what was extracted until March 2022 does not exceed 25%, according to preliminary estimates. There are approximately 1.5 million mines, and some statistics suggest that the number is close to two million mines and unexploded ordnance, which will make the discovery and extraction of minefields and mine lines in the future difficult and requires extensive efforts and high capabilities, and this will not happen in light of the continued control of the Houthi militia.
