International pressure on Houthis to hand over the mine maps is an urgent necessity
English - Saturday 16 April 2022 الساعة 08:35 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
With the recent political changes that have taken place in Yemen with international and Arab support, the mine file must be one of the international priorities, as the international pressure must be placed on the Houthi terrorist militia to urgently hand over mine maps, in order to preserve the lives of civilians.
Not a day passes without Houthi mines claiming innocent lives in Yemen, as thousands of kilometers have been planted by the Houthi militia with “mines” death projects.
Houthi mines threaten millions of civilians in Yemen. In many Yemeni governorates, there are death mines, including Marib, Shabwa, Hodeidah, Taiz, Lahj, Abyan, and many others. There are minefields planted by militias in order to claim the lives of civilians.
Iran, the first supporter of the Houthis, has developed tools of killing and bloodshed in various forms that are difficult to distinguish from nature, including stones, toys, building blocks, and other forms that are discovered from time to time.
The increase in the amount of mines planted and the number of victims is conclusive evidence that the Houthi militia is terrorist in every sense of the word, even spreading thousands of mines in the sea and threatening international shipping routes.
NewsYemen had published a statistic of the number of casualties during the last four years, which reached 1,424 civilians due to Houthi mines, ammunition and explosives, including the type PPM-2, anti-personnel and anti-vehicles and explosives called Khomeini.
Recently, the Shabwa war documented the extent of the Houthi’s destructive projects, as only the Asilan district recorded 6,800 mines and explosive devices that were removed within 8 days, after the Houthi defeat by the Southern Giants Brigades. They were planted on the roads and around the homes of citizens and camouflaged them randomly.
Classifying these militias as terrorists is fairness to the victims and commensurate with the reality of their criminality.
Nine human rights organizations recently called on the United Nations to pressure the group to hand over mine maps, with the number of victims increasing on a daily basis.
