170 violations documented by the Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) last September, Taiz
Taiz / Special:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) announced that it has documented 172 cases of violations affecting civilians in the governorate of Taiz during the last month of September 2020, committed by a number of parties in various directorates of the province.
Most notably, the killing of 15 civilians, including two women and a child, the Houthi militia caused the killing of four civilians, including two women and a child, during the Houthi militia bombing residential neighborhoods with various missiles.
Six civilians were killed by direct bullets in armed clashes outside the framework of the state, and a sniper belonging to multiple factions in the government army killed one civilian. Moreover, direct bullets by multiple factions in the government army killed two civilians, a shell fired by multiple factions in the government army killed one civilian and unidentified gunmen killed one civilian.
HRITC field team documented the injury of 43 civilians, including 5 women and 14 children, and the Houthi militia injured 26 of them, including 11 children and 4 women. Projectiles that the militia dropped on residential neighborhoods wounded twenty-one civilians, including nine children and two women,, and 5 civilians, including two children and two women, were wounded by a sniper from the Houthi militia.
Militants outside the state’s borders injured nine civilians, including a woman and a child, with direct bullets, and 6 civilians, including a child, were wounded in the explosion of an explosive device planted by unidentified people. While one child was injured as a result of an attempted kidnapping, and one civilian was injured by a shell fired by multiple factions in the government army.
HRITC field team documented a case of mass arrest committed by the Houthi militia, which affected more than 30 men and 20 women, who were arrested while storming the villages of Al-Husayn and Al-Jarn and other villages in the Mawiya District, east of Taiz, and the women were brought into the martyr Al-Muallem school.
The field team also monitored one case of violation of freedom of opinion and expression, which is the attempt to kidnap the 8-year-old child Amr Moussa Al-Selwi, the son of the journalist Wiam Al-Sufi, by an unknown person riding a motorcycle on Jamal Street, and the child was injured in that incident, which he miraculously survived.
The field team monitored 63 cases of violation of public and private property, including two general cases. Two schools were damaged as a result of artillery shelling, burning, looting, destruction, and partial and total damage.
The Houthi militia caused 39 houses and 18 vehicles and bicycles partially damaged as a result of a hail of bullets fired by the Houthi militia, and the Houthi militia carried out a raid and search campaign that affected dozens of shops and khat markets.
In addition, a private vehicle was damaged as a result of gunfire from armed factions in the government army, and a house was broken into by members of the government army.
The monthly report dealt with two main aspects of the grave violations that the governorate exposed. The first aspect is the intensification of the Houthi militia’s bombardment of the safe residents with Katyusha rockets and heavy artillery, which resulted in the killing of four civilians, including a child and two women, and the injury of 21 civilians, including nine children and two women.
The second side touched on the suffering of the besieged governorate for nearly five years of economic collapse, with a significant decline in the price of hard currencies and the rise in prices of various foodstuffs. Moreover, the difference in the price of foreign currencies in the Houthi-controlled Al-Houban area from its price in the rest of the city itself, and the difference reaches 25 percent of the currency’s value.
The deterioration of the currency exacerbated by the Houthi’s refusal to deal with the currencies recently issued by the legitimate government and the worsening of the deteriorating economic situation with the lack of basic materials, which exacerbated the painful suffering due to the loss of most of the employees their salaries for many months.
Human Rights Information and Training Center – HRITC
Taiz – 13/10/2020
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