Newspaper: Starvation is a systematic Houthi policy against Yemenis
English - Monday 04 July 2022 الساعة 04:16 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
Yemeni activists launched a campaign under the hashtag (#Houthi_Starves Yemenis) to denounce and express the ongoing crimes committed by the Houthi terrorist militia against the Yemeni people and their systematic and deliberate policy of starving civilians.
Experts and analysts stressed that the Houthi terrorist militia is using the weapon of starvation against the Yemeni people, with the aim of extending its influence and achieving its sectarian project, noting that the terrorist militias use inhumane methods such as stealing aid, depriving employees of their salaries and imposing royalties, in addition to bribery and the establishment of entities parallel to the state.
Yemeni writer and political analyst Mahmoud Al-Taher said in a statement to the Emirati newspaper, Al-Ittihad, that "the Houthi terrorist militia's use of the weapon of starvation creates two classes, the very rich of the Houthis, and the poor working class, which is all the people, with the aim of impoverishing them so that they do not think about educating their children in light of his preoccupation with the search for For a living, until a retarded mother’s generation comes out, it is easy to complete control over it culturally and intellectually, and it will be led behind it without thinking.”
Al-Taher added that the second reason is that the Houthi militias want to trade in the famine and put pressure on the coalition to support legitimacy and the Yemeni government in order to achieve any political gains.
He stressed that "Al-Houthi" is working to prolong the war, with the aim of planting its sectarian roots and eroding the Yemeni identity, stressing that "the international community must increase pressure on these militias, and if the international community wants the war to end and peace prevail in Yemen, it must support impose it by all means.
Al-Taher pointed out that there is great popular anger over the theft by "Al-Houthi" of Yemenis' food and property, foreshadowing a "hungry revolution", pointing to the existence of a popular uprising against him in Sana'a through writings calling for his departure on the walls of houses.
In turn, Yemeni political analyst Abdullah Ismail explained that "deliberate starvation reached the point of imposing a fifth tax in a unique and very bad racist phenomenon, looting wealth and not spending on any new projects, and not creating jobs."
Ismail noted that the “Houthi” is bargaining with the people and controlling the aid provided by the United Nations and its organizations, to put Yemenis under the pressure of need and poverty, so they tend to engage in the terrorist group’s projects, according to the same newspaper.
Yemeni political writer Dr. Abdul-Malik Al-Yousifi reminds that the terrorist Houthi militia has been practicing starvation policy on Yemenis since ancient times and is present in the militias' sectarian intellectual heritage, and that they have mastered their methods, such as the unjust siege, restricting people and looting resources.
Al-Yousifi explained to Al-Ittihad that the royalties imposed by the militias are similar to organized crime networks, in addition to the siege of areas and the theft of relief materials that come through international organizations.
