A member of a human rights monitoring coalition, Dr. Arwa Al-Khattabi, said that the number of people with disabilities in Yemen reached at least 4.5 million persons with disabilities, or about 15% of the population, adding that it was because of the mines that the Houthi militia had planted five years ago, which amounted to two million mines The numbers of people with disabilities are multiplying rapidly, not to mention pushing the Houthi militia children and civilians to the front lines, and this is the biggest threat to the lives of millions of Yemenis in the coming years.
In a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Al-Khattabi demanded that the council stop cooperation with the Houthi militias in the field of demining, and call on international donors, the United Nations, and humanitarian organizations working with the Yemeni authorities to do more to overcome obstacles that prevent people from getting People with disabilities have the most basic needs.
Al-Khattabi added that the Houthi militias have opened new fronts in recent weeks to fight in Dhali, Al-Jawf and Marib instead of their delinquency for peace and the implementation of the obligations of the Stockholm Agreement. And the handicap is increasing due to the world’s silence on this Houthi crime, and even cooperating with it by giving them money and equipment to clear mines, while reusing them to grow more of them.
Al-Khattabi emphasized that Yemen suffers from flagrant human rights violations committed by the Houthi militia in the absence of the rule of law and the failure of the judiciary, and the imposition of de facto authority in the areas under its control, and indicated that human rights defenders monitored hundreds of militia victims, in cases of arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance, They documented their testimonies of torture that amounted to extrajudicial killing. Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances exceeded 22,000, and more than 3,500 detainees were still held in terrorist militia prisons, of whom more than 90 were killed under torture, and more than 288 women were still Houthi militias are being tortured in prisons.
The letter addressed to the Human Rights Council the message of the detainees and forcibly disappeared mothers, that it is necessary to pressure the Houthi militia to reveal the fate of their relatives who were subjected to raids and arbitrary detention, in addition to using them as human shields and placing them in detention in places subject to bombing within the borders and rules of the warfare, which is a gross violation of their rights By militias amount to a full-fledged war crime.
Houthi militias have planted two million mines in 5 years.
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Detainees killed in Al-Houthi prisons because of torture.