Old hatred behind the atrocities of the Houthis against Yemenis, and revenge for Hussein is their main concern
English - Tuesday 30 August 2022 الساعة 10:43 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
"You did not see anything yet, and the worst days are still coming. You supported Afash (the late Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh) in his war against us in Saada and his killing of Sidi Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the grandson of the Messenger of God, did you think that all of these would pass without a response or revenge? We swore that we are taking our revenge, and here is our chance, and we will take it to the end.”
With these words, one of the Houthi women recruited in the so-called Zainabiyat (the armed women’s battalion within the Houthi militia, Iran’s arm in Yemen) responded to a Yemeni woman during one of the women’s meetings in Sana’a, she criticized the deteriorating conditions that Yemenis have reached under the rule of the Houthis.
This position expressed by that Houthi woman "Al-Zainabiya" was also repeated by male Houthi leaders in more than one place and on occasion, albeit in different forms, but in general it carries one content that the practices of Iran's starving arm and its violations against citizens in its areas of control, are driven by an old vengeful tendency from the popular position in support of the state and its authorities during the rule of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, from the rebellion of the group in Saada, which ended with the death of its founder Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi.
These retaliatory Houthi tendencies are now more evident in all the practices carried out by Iran's arm in its areas of control against people in different and varied ways and forms.
The assassination of Saleh..a model of hatred and revenge
Observers unanimously agree that Iran’s arm in Yemen has resorted to using all methods of revenge against the citizens, whether they are political opponents of it, or those who do not support it, or those who continued to remain in its areas of control, but they refused to engage in its practices, and even policies of revenge reached against those who supported it of political leaders.
In their interview with NewsYemen, observers demonstrate the way in which the Houthi militias dealt with the General People's Congress and its former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who tried to drag the militias to the square of the state and resort to its institutions and work in accordance with the constitution, law and order in dealing with people's affairs and interests through the agreement signed between the People's Congress General and the Houthis in July 2016, according to which the so-called Supreme Revolutionary Committee and its affiliated committees, through which the militias administered power after their coup, were abolished, and that was replaced by the so-called Supreme Political Council, and the formation of a salvation government and the return of the House of Representatives and the Shura Council to exercise their powers after the militias had dissolved them after their coup and control of Sanaa on September 21, 2014.
They pointed out that Saleh and the leaders of the conference tried, for more than a year and a half, to deal with the Houthi militias in the most positive way and sought to persuade the militias to manage state affairs by invoking the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Yemen and the laws in force, and not taking any measures that would show that what is happening in Sanaa, and the rest Militia-controlled areas are separatist measures, as well as Saleh and the conference’s attempt to use all methods to preserve the public function of the state within the framework of the constitutional and legal standards, and to prevent the exclusion of national cadres, or the appointment of elements outside the framework of the standards stipulated by the Civil Service Law, but all of these attempts went in vain, as the Houthi militias insisted on implementing their policies and procedures that completely contradict the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Yemen, the laws in force, and the concepts, values and principles of equal citizenship.
They emphasized that Iran's arm continued to reveal its ugly front face, its hatred against the republican regime and the Yemeni revolution, its racist policies, and its sectarian tendencies, in a way that kept increasing day by day, reaching the stage of a complete coup against the agreement between it and the conference, which forced former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to declare the revolution against them on December 2, 2017, despite realizing that he was fighting an unequal battle given the militias’ control over all the capabilities of the state, but he preferred to revolt against them, which led to the martyrdom of his and his comrade Aref Al-Zoka at the hands of the Houthi militias on December 4, 2017.
Several retaliatory policies expose Houthi hatred
Since its coup on September 21, 2014, and its aftermath, especially after the martyrdom of Saleh and his loyal companion Aref Al-Zoka, and Iran’s arm completely monopolizing the decision, the Houthis’ retaliatory policies against the people have escalated remarkably.
Observers unanimously agree that the Houthi militias began their retaliatory policies by storming, looting and bombing the homes of their political or military opponents, through violations and arbitrary arrests of citizens, putting them in detention on malicious charges, issuing and implementing death sentences against some, and confiscating the homes and properties of their opponents without any legal justification and the exclusion and expulsion of employees and their replacement with elements of its militias away from any considerations of any constitutional or legal texts related to the public job, and cutting and stealing employees’ salaries, at a time when Iran’s arm continues to practice and impose levies outside all constitutional and legal texts and transfer them to its own accounts and banks.
The Houthis' retaliatory policies against people continue, according to observers, until the militias issued new laws and regulations that are completely separatist from the Constitution of the Republic of Yemen, passing through the amendments it made to the education curricula, which included its own racist and sectarian ideas and trends, not to mention the family appointments from the family of the militia leader, which now controls all the important and sensitive joints and authorities of the state in the authority of the militias, and not the end of the deliberate and systematic looting of citizens’ lands under the pretext and justifications that they are endowments, leading to the theft of zakat and endowments funds and their collection in unconstitutional and illegal ways in their favour.
Observers affirm that Iran’s arm will continue to practice its retaliatory policies and measures against citizens and people living within its areas of control, not only because it is taking revenge on their stances in support of the state’s actions and its army during President Saleh’s rule against its rebellion, but also because the Houthi militia carries a racist ideology of revenge against the people they sees as mere servants, and slaves to the people of their dynasty, which they claims is superior by lineage.
