141 violations were documented by the Information Center last February in Taiz
Taiz / Special:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) announced that it had documented 141 cases of violations affecting civilians in Taiz Governorate during the month of February 2022, the most likely cause of these violations was the Houthi militia.
The center said in its monthly report entitled “Al-Anin Village.. Scorched Land” that its field team documented the killing of 9 civilians, including 3 women. The Houthi militia caused the death of 8 of them, including 3 women.
Where 3 civilians, including a woman, were killed by mortars and heavy artillery, one woman was killed by a sniper’s bullets, two civilians, one of whom was a woman, were killed by direct fire, and two civilians, one of whom was a woman, were also killed by landmines explosion, and one civilian was killed by direct fire from gunmen outside the framework of the state.
The field center team was able to monitor the injury of 44 civilians, including 6 women and 11 children. The Houthi militia caused the injury of 35 civilians, including 6 women and 11 children. 30 civilians, including 4 women and 7 children, were injured by various artillery shells, while 5 civilians, 2 women, and 3 children, were wounded by a militia sniper.
The field team documented the injury of 6 civilians, including a child, as a result of direct bullets fired by gunmen outside the framework of the state.
The center’s field team documented two cases of assault, one of which was carried out by the Houthi militia, another by armed men outside the framework of the state, and two cases of kidnapping committed by armed men outside the framework of the state, one of which was committed by members of the government army in the second case.
The team recorded the displacement of 45 families in early February, according to a statement by the International Organization for Migration. Center monitors stated that the Houthi militia displaced dozens of families from the residents of Al-Hasab village in the Moqbna district, forcing them to leave their homes and flee from them.
The field team monitored 39 cases of damage to public and private property, one of which was to public property, where Al-Hayat Hospital was damaged by the bombing of the Houthi militia.
38 cases of violations of private property were documented, including the damage of 9 houses completely, 17 houses partially, two vehicles partially, and one completely as a result of the bombing by the Houthi militia. Homes of employees at Al-Barah Cement Factory.
Two commercial stores were partially damaged by gunfire outside the framework of the state, and individuals affiliated with factions in the government army seized the lands of citizens.
The report dealt with the violations that affected the village of Al-Anin and Bilad Al-Wafi in Jabal Habashi, which the Houthi militia turned into a scorched land by bombing it systematically and intensively with various heavy weapons, due to the strategic location of its mountain due to the location of the directorate and its mountain villages overlooking the areas of Ramada and Hajda, and the main road between the governorates of Taiz and Hodeidah, and the Houthi militia made it a continuous target. With the steadfastness of the resistance in these villages, the militias escalated their bombardment until the fires devastated the villages.
The suffering was not limited to cutting off large areas of their land that were planted with mines and monitored by sniper fire, but the sniping operations reached inside the village, and many of its sons were injured when they moved, even during the funerals of the dead to the village cemetery.
The report indicated the occurrence of 3 bloody massacres committed by the Houthi militia, two of which killed two civilians and injured 18 civilians, including two women and three children. The report also touched on the deteriorating economic conditions and the oil derivatives crisis and its impact on the lives of citizens.
The report dealt with cases of security chaos, the seizure of citizens’ lands, and the blocking of roads. It also reviewed the areas affected by the bombing during February, stressing the noticeable increase in the frequency of bombing, causing great human and material losses.
