Brigadier General Amin al-Aqeeli, director of Yemen's national mine action program, confirmed that the Iranian-backed Houthi coup militias have expanded their operations to plant and manufacture improvised explosive devices and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). To antipersonnel mines, by connecting them with electric pedals, as well as the expansion of militias in the cultivation of marine mines.
Speaking at the Fourth Review Conference of the Review of the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines, held in Oslo, Norway, he said that militias have expanded to minefields in cities, villages, roads, public facilities, water sources, grazing areas and agriculture in a number of Yemeni governorates.
He added that the Saudi project to clear mines in Yemen (Pore), in partnership with the program, from June 2018 until October 2019, was able to detect and destroy 1642 anti-personnel mines, 37 thousand and 576 anti-vehicle mines, improvised mines, and 4040 explosive devices, and 56 11,722 ERW and unexploded ordnance.
He noted that during the period from January to October 2019, UNDP-supported disarmament and demining teams reached 532 antipersonnel mines, 9,081 antivehicle mines, 11 maritime mines and 25,824 mines of war and non-missile remnants. Yemen applied for a three-year extension of the program until the beginning of March 2023, with a view to quantifying the actual problem with Article V of the Mine Ban Treaty.
Brigadier General Al-Aqili:
«The Houthis expanded the planting of IEDs
Infrared, turn mine
Anti - tank to anti - personnel mines ».