UN support for Houthi miners and deliberate neglect of Yemeni victims
English - Saturday 26 March 2022 الساعة 02:37 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
United Nations organizations continue to provide huge funds to the Houthi terrorist militia under various names, the latest of which is to support what they called a “training course for awareness of mine risks,” despite the fact that this support and funding raises suspicious questions and widespread public and official condemnation.
And Saba News Agency, in its Houthi version, announced, in its news, that the Executive Center for Dealing with Mine - run by the Houthi militia - concluded on Wednesday, in Taiz Governorate, a training course to raise awareness of the dangers of mines, bombs and remnants of war in coordination with the so-called "Supreme Council for Humanitarian Affairs", "affiliated with the group". and the local authority, with the support of the United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF".
According to the agency, the five-day course aimed to rehabilitate 25 male and female trainees from the affected and targeted districts, namely: Maqbna, Al-Taziyeh, Khadir, Salh and Haifan, to deliver emergency awareness messages to the targets in the districts, the isolation, and the targeted villages about the dangers of mines and remnants of war that kill many innocent people, noting The field awareness teams in the directorates will begin their work next Saturday, and will last for 44 days.
This course is one of dozens of courses, seminars and activities funded and supported by the United Nations agencies with their multiple arms for the government of the Houthi militia, which is not recognized internationally, and the last batch of funding was under the pretext of "fighting mines", which was revealed by the Houthi militia, on the 20th of December last year. In the words of the leader of the militia, "Abdul Mohsen Al-Tawoos", who was appointed by the militia as Secretary-General of what it calls the "Supreme Council for Humanitarian Affairs", a newly created entity of the Houthi group, who said that they agreed with the United Nations to allocate (one million and 500 thousand dollars) "as urgent assistance to speed up in demining.
Despite the ridicule and societal and human rights discontent that this funding raises in Yemen, especially since the Houthi militia, Iran’s arm in Yemen, is using it to manufacture more mines and plant them randomly in seam areas and everywhere in the areas from which they are expelled and their militias retreat, which increases their danger. It turns them into time bombs that require concerted efforts and capabilities to remove them, especially the Houthis deliberately bringing in experts from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to manufacture, develop and plant them without maps in mountainous areas and desert hills, in residential neighborhoods, around homes, inside mosques and on the roads, and even set them as ambushes with the bodies of their dead with the aim of inflicting the largest number of victims, whether they were Civilians or military.
And in October 2017, the United Nations provided the Houthi militia with financial funding estimated at (14 million dollars) under the cover of the "anti-mine planting" program in Yemen implemented by the so-called "Yemeni Executive Center for Mine Action", which is run by the Houthi militia in Sana'a.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights also distributed about (30 four-wheel drive vehicles) for the purpose of "mining clearance" in late May 2019. The Houthis benefited from them in transferring mines with ease to the fighting fronts without targeting them, and transferring the prominent leaders of the group away from targeting the army, joint forces and aviation. The Arab Alliance, as it bears the slogans and flags of the United Nations.
Yemeni human rights advocates accuse the United Nations organizations, especially UNICEF, of identifying with the Houthi coup militia, considering the provision of funding by the United Nations and its arms to the Houthis as explicit international support for the killers, and as a reward for the coup plotters. The largest amount of mines to claim the lives of Yemenis, and thus the United Nations is a major partner for the group in detonating their reality, present and future.
Thousands of the disabled and injured as a result of the mines planted by the Houthi militia suffer from deliberate neglect and harsh living conditions. Especially after looting and stopping the militias, credits and donations were spent annually to the Fund for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled and the National Union of Yemeni Disabled Associations, and the restrictions on dozens of relevant local organizations and associations that closed their doors during the war years.
A statistic issued by the Fund for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled stated that the number of disabled persons registered in the Fund's records in Taiz alone amounted to about (10,128) disabled and handicapped, of whom 4,000 are physically handicapped, and 80% are children.
The Houthi militia, the arm of Iran, is the only party in all parties to the war that plants mines and explosive devices of various types and sizes, even the internationally prohibited “individuals,” which number about two million mines, according to human rights reports, and claimed the lives of thousands of civilians, describing Yemen as the largest operation. Mine laying in the ground since the end of World War II.
UNICEF funds the Houthis to print curricula and the war effort
The international support for the Houthis is not limited to the field of planting mines, but rather expands the area of its growth as a more plant whose harvest results in Yemen are increasing in record speed, leaving long lists of victims, disabled and amputees.
Five years from 2016 to 2020 witnessed an increase in funding and support for United Nations organizations, most notably UNICEF, and a remarkable emergence of their unusually servile and complicity with the Houthi militia and the achievement of many of its goals in the early years of the war. This support came under humanitarian and human rights cover and names.
UNICEF handed over $40 million in 2016 to the Global Partnership, which is controlled by the Houthi militia, for the purpose of establishing laboratories in schools in the capital, Sana’a, but it did not implement any of those projects, and as usual, the cash was transferred to the militias And cover its expenses on the fronts to confront the army and the popular resistance.
The Houthi militia succeeded in securing sources of funding for its sectarian activities, programs and activities, using false and deceptive methods, with the complicity of successive United Nations envoys and UNICEF, which turned from a community partner to a major funder of the activities of the Iranian Houthi militia.
The United Nations organizations, especially UNICEF, expanded the support they provide to the Houthi militia by financing in 2017, printing the school curricula after amending it and introducing sectarian terms to serve Iran’s expansionist agenda and project in the region, at a time when the legitimate government accused the Minister of Education Abdullah Lamlas of the United Nations Organization The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) refused to deal with it to finance the printing of school books at the Ministry's printing presses in Aden and Mukalla.
UNICEF also handed over the Gulf grant for teachers in the areas under the control of the coup in 2019 to the Houthi coup militia, which deducted large sums of money from their salaries in favor of its militias, contrary to what was agreed upon at the time with the Ministry of Education in the legitimate government.
Observers believe that the United Nations organizations' rejection of the repeated calls of the presidency and the legitimate government to transfer their headquarters from Sana'a to Aden, as a temporary capital, suggests that they have a suspicious, specific and drawn up agenda in feeding and protecting the coup.
