Dozens of immigrants were burned alive
Survivors of the "Sanaa Fire" narrate shocking and horrific scenes
Today, Tuesday, the Human Rights Watch organization accused the Houthi militia of launching "unknown projectiles" at a detention center for African migrants in Sanaa during a demonstration to demand improvement in their living conditions, which caused the death of dozens of them. The organization published horrific stories quoting survivors who spoke of being beaten Insulting and seeing dozens of charred bodies in the room in which they were imprisoned before the fire broke out as punishment for their protest.
"Dozens of migrants have burned in Yemen on March 7, after Houthi security forces fired unidentified projectiles at a detention center for immigrants in Sanaa, which caused a fire," Human Rights Watch said in a statement received by AFP.
She explained that “the center’s guards and other armed men transferred groups of immigrants, most of them from Ethiopia, to one of the sites after they refused to eat breakfast and a skirmish took place with the security forces, and asked them to recite their last prayers, then one of the security forces went up to the roof of the closed site and fired two projectiles into the room, and then the fire occurred “, Human Rights Watch quoted five of the detainees who survived.
Videos obtained by Agence France-Presse from a survivor showed dozens of charred bodies piled on top of each other, while one of the people shouted "There is no god but God" and cried.
Survivors marched among the bodies, searching for survivors in the narrow room with concrete walls.
Likewise, a video footage published by Human Rights Watch showed security personnel walking among a group of survivors outside the room as fire engulfed the interior and thick black smoke rose.
One of the migrants told the organization: “I was terrified, as if the smoke paralyzed my mind.
People were coughing, fires burned bedding and blankets ... People were burned alive.
I was forced to trample their corpses to escape. ''
Hundreds of migrants were treated in the capital's hospitals amid intense security deployment, while others fled to Yemeni areas, including Aden, in the south.
People interviewed said they saw Houthi security forces re-arrest migrants who were not seriously injured.
According to one of the immigrants who spoke to "Human Rights Watch", they are often subjected to "racial insults, threats, and repeated insults," while food is limited and drinking water is scarce in a country on the brink of starvation.
The International Organization for Migration of the United Nations initially announced the death of eight migrants, then spoke, according to local reports, of the death of about 60, calling on the Houthis to allow urgent access to provide treatment for the injured.
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