792 violations in 2022: The Information Center documents 792 violations against civilians in Taiz during the past year
Taiz:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) launched its annual report, during which it documented the occurrence of 792 violations against civilians in Taiz Governorate during the past year 2022, most of which were committed directly by the Houthi militia, classified according to the Security Council as a terrorist organization.
The center said in a press statement issued today that according to the information and data collected and confirmed by the field team, the Houthi militia directly caused 523 violations, and gunmen outside the framework of the state caused 184 violations. In comparison, individuals belonging to multiple factions in the government army caused 48 violations. Unidentified gunmen caused 25 violations.
Tariq Saleh’s joint forces on the western coast also caused one violation, and 11 violations occurred due to clashes between gunmen outside the framework of the state and the security committee.
Extrajudicial killing:
The center’s field team documented the killing of 113 civilians, including 16 children and 12 women, at the hands of various parties in Taiz. The Houthi militia killed 59 civilians, including 11 women and 13 children. About 14 civilians, including two women and five children, were killed as a result of their direct targeting with various heavy and medium shells, which fall on an almost daily basis. Most of the neighborhoods and residential areas in the city and a number of districts and rural areas.
11 civilians, including 3 women and two children, were killed by direct gunfire, while 12 civilians, including 3 women and two children, were killed by snipers affiliated with the Houthi militia in the places and military barracks taken by the militia in neighboring areas they control.
About 6 civilians, including two women and a child, were killed as a result of the mine explosion, 5 civilians were killed by an explosive device, 3 civilians were executed and 5 civilians, including a child, were tortured to death. Two children were killed by Houthi drones, and one woman was killed by anti-aircraft fire.
Gunmen outside the framework of the state, concentrated in areas liberated from the Houthi militia, killed 37 civilians, as 31 civilians were killed by direct fire, and 6 civilians were killed by a hand grenade.
Members of the army and security affiliated with several partisan and regional factions killed 4 civilians with direct gunfire, and unidentified gunmen caused the death of about 10 civilians, including 3 children and a woman. About 4 civilians, including a child, were killed by direct gunfire, and 3 civilians, including a child, were killed by an explosive device, and one civilian was killed. We were stabbed with one instrument, and a child was killed by hanging, and a woman was killed by returning bullets.
3 civilians, including a child, were shot dead during clashes between the security forces and gunmen outside the framework of the state.
Multiple injuries:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center documented the injury of 307 civilians, including 74 children and 34 women. The Houthi militia caused 178 injuries to civilians, including 60 children and 26 women. The various shells killed 72 civilians, including 8 women and 33 children.
Snipers injured about 47 civilians, including 9 women and 16 children, and 72 civilians, including 8 women and 33 children, were injured by direct artillery shelling, and one woman was wounded by direct bullets, while 18 civilians, including 3 women and 7 children, were injured by mines, and 18 civilians, including two women and a child, were injured by explosive devices planted by them. militia.
A woman was also hit by a Houthi military vehicle, while 3 others, including a woman and two children, suffocated from the smoke of the anti-aircraft fire, and 18 civilians, including a woman and a child, were injured by drone strikes.
Gunmen outside the framework of the state caused the injury of 99 civilians, including 5 women and 7 children, 55 of whom were wounded by direct fire, including 4 women and 3 children, and 17 civilians, including a woman, were wounded by the explosion of an explosive device, and 7 civilians, including two children, were injured by a hand grenade, and 20 civilians, including two children, were injured by a hand grenade. Beating them up.
17 civilians, including 3 women and 5 children, were injured by members and factions of the government army. 8 civilians, including a child and two women, were wounded by direct fire, and a child and a woman were injured in artillery shelling. Five civilians, including two children, were wounded by beatings, and two civilians, one of them a child, was run over. a military vehicle, and a woman and a child were wounded by a mortar shell.
Unidentified gunmen injured 6 civilians, including one child, as 3 civilians were wounded by direct fire, and one civilian was injured by a grenade explosion, and two civilians, one of whom was a child, were wounded by returning bullets.
6 civilians were injured as a result of clashes between gunmen outside the framework of the state and security men, and the joint forces of Tariq Saleh injured one child as a result of the attack on him.
Monthly monitoring reports in Taiz governorate
Kidnappings:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center monitored 26 individual and group kidnapping cases.
The Houthi militia caused 10 cases, including two collective cases and the kidnapping of two children, and gunmen outside the framework of the state caused 12 of them, and members of the army and security caused 4 cases.
Attacks:
The information center’s field team documented 14 cases of assault against civilians in Taiz governorate during the reporting period, 3 of which were committed by gunmen outside the framework of the state, 9 cases were committed by members of the government army and security, and only 2 cases were committed by Houthi militants.
Arrests:
The field team of the Information Center documented two cases of arrest by members of the government army.
Displacement and forced displacement:
The center’s field team monitored 80 cases of displacement, including one collective case, and the displacement of 79 families, all of which were caused by the Houthi militia.
Freedom of speech:
The human rights team of the Information Center monitored 11 cases of violations of freedom of opinion and expression during the reporting period. Armed men outside the framework of the state committed 3 cases, while members of the government army committed another case, and unknown gunmen committed 4 cases, while the Houthi militia committed 3 cases.
Public and private property:
The field team was able to monitor damage to 239 public and private properties, including 17 public properties and 222 private properties, where 8 public properties were damaged by the Houthi militia.
The team documented 3 cases by members of the army and security, 5 properties were damaged by gunmen outside the framework of the state, and one property was damaged by unknown gunmen.
While 183 pieces of private property were damaged by the Houthi militia, 27 pieces of property by gunmen outside the framework of the state, 4 pieces of property by unknown gunmen, 6 property by members of the army and security, and two collective cases as a result of clashes between gunmen outside the framework of the state and security men.
Mass massacres:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center documented the occurrence of 10 bloody massacres committed by the Houthi militia, 8 of which killed 5 civilians, including a child, and injured 45 other civilians, including two women and 20 children.
Gunmen outside the framework of the state committed two massacres, killing two civilians, including a child, and injuring 7 civilians, including two women.
Assassinations:
The center documented one case of the assassination of Captain Muhammad Saeed Al-Najjar in Al-Daboua neighborhood, with direct bullets, by a gunman outside the framework of the state.
The center’s team also documented an assassination attempt, in which the assistant security director of Taiz, Colonel Samir al-Ashbat, survived.
