Because of sectarian mobilization and the spread of weapons... almost daily killings in the Houthi militia-controlled areas

English - Monday 30 May 2022 الساعة 03:42 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:

The number of murders, domestic violence and suicide has increased remarkably in the areas under the control of the terrorist Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, which has become almost daily, according to local media and community organizations.

In the latest domestic violence crimes, a citizen in Dhamar Governorate, south of Sanaa, killed his son with a sharp object;  Because of a dispute over a sum of money.

Local sources said that a citizen killed his son by hitting him with a sharp object, an "axe".  Due to a dispute over an amount of 2000 riyals ($4) in the city of Al Sharq, west of the city of Dhamar.

The sources indicated that the father took the ax and struck his son a fatal blow in the neck, and prevented and threatened the people from giving him aid and leaving him to bleed until he died.

Five crimes in one area

In Amran, a young man killed his father and brother and wounded his mother and sister, in the Qaflat Azhar district, against the background of a dispute over “Qat.”  This is the fifth crime of its kind in the Qaflah district within one week.  In conjunction with a Houthi leader killing a young man after a dispute between them over the wages of “moving stones.”  While a third citizen committed suicide, in mysterious circumstances.

And last Friday, a young man, “Ammar Shanan,” 32, from the district of Dhibin, was shot dead by a weapon called “Maher Washi Al-Dhuibi,” one of Harf Sufyan’s sons, after their disagreement over “the rent for transporting stones” to the offender’s area in the victim’s truck.

Houthi kills his wife and her fetus with a bomb

In Hajjah, a Houthi gunman in the "Al-Juwana" area of Aflah Al-Yaman district killed his wife and her fetus with a hand grenade, amid the silence of the group.

And local sources reported that a 30-year-old Houthi gunman named "Walid Khaled Al-Abdali" had killed his pregnant wife in her last month, after she demanded that he deliver her to her family's home because of ill-treatment and taking her gold and selling it.

She added: "The wife, who came from the neighboring district of Al-Mahabsha, died instantly of being hit by shrapnel from the grenade, while the fetus died minutes later."

It confirmed that the militia leaders tried to show the incident as a result of tampering with the weapon, but the victim's family is calling on the relevant authorities to investigate its circumstances, especially in light of the disappearance of the perpetrator.

Two suicides

In addition, a girl committed suicide, by hanging, in the house of one of her relatives in Jahran District, Dhamar Governorate.

Local sources said that the little girl, Bara'a Samir, was found on Friday hanging from a tree trunk in the outskirts of her grandmother's house, and she died.

She added that the little girl, Baraa, committed suicide on the day her family was preparing to travel and return to Al-Bayda in the morning. During breakfast, she went to a yard near her grandmother's house, put a rope around her neck and committed suicide by hanging, and she was found dead.

The sources stated that the girl lives with her family in Al-Bayda, and she is originally from Dhamar Governorate, and she came with her family to attend one of her parents' relatives' weddings, as her family intended to return to Al-Bayda after the wedding.

She pointed out that the little girl, Baraa, threatened her parents several times that if she was forced to return to Al-Bayda, she would kill herself, and she was taking the knife, and showing her desire to kill herself, but her parents did not take it seriously.

And before that, in Ibb governorate, a citizen committed suicide, and it is the governorate with the highest rate of violent crimes and suicide among the governorates under the control of the Houthi militia.

Local sources said that the citizen (MA), from the Yarim district, committed suicide under mysterious circumstances.

 Daily murders

The governorates under the control of the putschists witness a noticeable and remarkable rise in murders, domestic violence and suicides, and it is difficult to monitor them accurately, especially since there are similar crimes that are not published through the media.

According to specialists, the increase in murder, domestic violence and suicide, and its transformation into an almost daily phenomenon, clearly reveals the role of the Houthi war and its negative effects in increasing societal disintegration and family ties;  And other reasons such as the proliferation of weapons, inheritance disputes and marital problems, in addition to the difficult economic conditions that Yemeni families suffer from.

They pointed out that prolonging the war helps to escalate these crimes from day to day, and that the continued mobilization and incitement pursued by the Houthi militia by instilling sectarian ideas and concepts imbued with a culture of violence and terrorism in the minds of young people and children and their involvement in fighting on the fronts turns them into killers and human monsters, which makes them, after their return, ease  Killings, even for trivial reasons, they may face with members of the community and with members of their families and relatives.