Suicides are on the rise in the northern regions
English - Sunday 11 September 2022 الساعة 04:34 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
Suicide rates continue to increase in areas controlled by the terrorist Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, because of the frustration and despair that the years of war threw on them, in addition to the ongoing violations and crimes of the Houthi militia.
Hundreds of Yemenis resorted to suicide by hanging, shooting themselves, or jumping from high places in Sanaa and several Yemeni governorates during the years of war ignited by the Iranian arm militia since its coup in 2014.
Several factors pushed the suicide bombers to their inevitable fate, after they were ravaged by hunger, narrowed their means, lost their jobs and sources of income, and became unable to provide a livelihood for their children, and were unable to obtain jobs that would suffice them to meet the requirements of the home and family, including medicine and food.
The governorates of Ibb, Amran and Sana'a have the highest levels of suicide victims in the areas under the control of Iran's arm; as a result of the deteriorating psychological state of the population as a result of militia looting of salaries for nearly seven years.
Ibb governorate is the first on the list by recording five suicides in less than a week, including a girl, a woman and a child in the districts of Al-Udain, Hobeish, Dhi Al-Saffal, and Ibb countryside.
According to observers, the cause of suicides in Ibb Governorate, which is home to more than three million people, and a large proportion of them live below the poverty line, is due to the deteriorating economic conditions and the lack of the simplest means of a decent life under the control of the Houthi militia, which constitutes the biggest motive for suicide.
Local sources in Sanaa confirmed to NewsYemen that the phenomenon of suicide inside Houthi prisons among the kidnapped and forcibly disappeared has increased significantly as a result of the inhuman and cruel treatment and physical and psychological torture they are subjected to by the Houthi militia.
The Red Sea Center for Political and Security Studies in Marib recorded a number of suicide cases in Houthi prisons, most of them for women and girls who had been kidnapped and forcibly disappeared.
A recent study confirms that mental health in Yemen is severely neglected by local authorities and international organizations, as hospitals and centers specialized in psychiatry have been nationalized and transformed into private investment hospitals to exploit the families of patients who are going through difficult living conditions.
It pointed out that millions of Yemenis are in dire need of health and psychological care due to the weight of the war and the suffering caused by it, and the perpetuation of the war with the fragile UN truce, which increases the continuation and expansion of exposure to trauma and mental illness.
A psychologist says that the war has led to an increase in cases of mental and neurological diseases, especially among children, especially in the cities of Sanaa, Taiz and Ma'rib, as a result of the Houthi indiscriminate bombing of civilian and populated areas.
He pointed out that the percentage of psychological cases that may lead to suicide has increased remarkably to 300% since the start of the international truce, and these cases vary between severe phobias, phobias, schizophrenia and other psychological and neurological diseases resulting from the bombing of rockets and missiles, people stopped working and the isolation suffered by most employees since the beginning of the war of Houthi
