HRITC confirms that what the Houthi militia is doing in Al-Hima villages are crimes against humanity
Taiz /
The Human Rights Information and Rehabilitation Center (HRITC) said that it carefully monitored what is happening in the isolation of Al-Haima, east of Taiz, from the siege and bombing of the Houthi militia towards populated villages. Siege on villages that resisted some of its inhabitants with their individual weapons and the right to bombard massive damage to property with the destruction of up to eighteen houses.
The statement of the Human Rights Information and Training Center – HRITC, a regional organization that has a consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, stated that,
For the fifth day, the villages of Azlat al-Hima, in the north of the Taiz governorate, are experiencing a situation of what is described as a human tragedy.
The Houthi militia is still besieging the villages of Azlat al-Hima, with forces heavily armed with medium and heavy weapons.
The casualty numbers escalated until the death toll reached ten civilians and thirty injured, and more than one hundred twenty-five people were kidnapped, including at least ten children.
The Houthi militia raided nearly a hundred homes in the villages of Wadi Al-Dhra`, Al-Muqrin, Qiyad and Al-Muqhan, and destroyed eighteen homes.
According to the monitoring team of the Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC), there is a massive exodus of villages that have been subjected to intense bombing four days ago with heavy and medium weapons.
The Houthi militia leaked video clips of its abuse of armed resistance fighters, who were killed and dragged in public, also filmed in public.
The Houthi militia said that those who resisted extremist forces, but the villagers confirmed that those who confronted the Houthi militia were the sons of the villages of Al-Hima, who refused to submit to the recruitment of their villages and the kidnapping of their sons.
According to documented monitoring, the Houthi militia has already kidnapped ten children and more than a hundred men from different villages and feared for their serious lives, as some of them were transferred to the Al-Saleh detention camp in the Al-Hawban area of Taiz, a city that has turned into a very dangerous secret prison and it is known that it is a slaughterhouse to torture anti-Houthi opponents.
The Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC), a regional organization that has a consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, described the grave violations and excessive use of force as crimes against humanity.
The photos of the killing and the mutilation of corpses confirm the Houthi methodology for committing crimes against humanity, violating the rules of international humanitarian law and human rights.
HRITC called on the United Nations Organization represented by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Security Council and the Special Envoy to Yemen to work seriously in order to save the lives of dozens of families who suffer certain death.
The Center also called for the speedy disclosure of the fate of the kidnapped people, especially children, and their release.
Human Rights Information and Training Center – HRITC
Taiz – 1/10/2020
