70 violations documented by the Information Center last October in Taiz
Taiz / Special:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) announced that it had documented 70 violations of civilians in the Taiz governorate last October.
In its monthly report, the center said that its field team was able to document the killing of 20 civilians, including two women and 6 children. The Houthi militia alone caused the deaths of 12 civilians, including two women and 5 children, indirect targeting.
Where 6 civilians, including a woman and 4 children, were killed by the militia’s artillery shells, while one civilian was killed by direct fire, another civilian was killed by a landmine explosion, and two civilians were killed by an explosive device explosion, and a woman was killed by a sniper’s bullets, while a child was executed by members of the Houthi militia.
Two civilians were killed by direct fire, and two others, one of whom was a child, were killed in the explosion of an explosive device planted by gunmen outside the framework of the state, and 4 civilians were killed by direct bullets by unknown gunmen.
The field center team was able to monitor the injury of 15 civilians, including two women and three children. The Houthi militia directly injured 10 civilians, including a woman and two children.
4 civilians, including two children, were wounded by various artillery shells, 3 civilians, including a woman, were wounded by a militia sniper, a civilian was injured by a landmine explosion, and two civilians were injured by an explosive device explosion.
Two civilians, one of them a child, were wounded by the explosion of an explosive device planted by armed men outside the framework of the state. Two civilians, one of whom was a woman, were wounded by direct bullets by members of the government army, and one civilian was wounded by direct bullets by an unknown gunman.
The field team documented two cases of kidnapping and enforced disappearance, one of which was committed by armed men outside the framework of the state, and another case by members of the Giants Force in the West Coast. The field team also documented one case of violation of freedom of opinion and expression committed by unidentified armed men, and 4 arrest cases were monitored, 3 of which were committed by members of the army. government and one case committed by Houthi militants.
28 cases of violations of private property were recorded, as 7 houses were completely damaged, 12 were partially damaged, and 6 vehicles were damaged as a result of the bombing by the Houthi militia, and a vehicle was completely damaged by the explosion of a landmine planted by the Houthi militia, and another vehicle was partially damaged by gunmen outside the framework of the state. A restaurant was attacked by gunfire and the money in it was looted by gunmen outside the framework of the state.
The report dealt with the horrific massacre committed by the Houthis on October 30, which led to the killing of 3 children, and the injury of 3 others from one family, including a child whose foot was amputated, as a result of a mortar shell fired in Jami` al-Khair neighborhood in Salh District.
The report touched on the levies imposed by Houthi leaders under various names, the latest of which was the pretext of the Prophet’s birthday to raise funds. On the other hand, in the liberated areas, cases of extortion and kidnapping of merchants, laying grounds, and exacerbating the security situation arose.
The report pointed to the continuation of assassinations of leading or military figures in the liberated areas, where three cases of assassination and an assassination attempt were monitored by the Monitoring Team of Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC), two of which were committed by unidentified armed men, and one case committed by armed men outside the framework of the state, and the most prominent of these assassinations was the assassination of the leader In the Popular Resistance and the Reform Party, Zia al-Haq Idriss, during last October.
