Houthi militia imposes new royalties and 73 violations documented by the HRITC during the month of June in Taiz
Taiz / Special:
Human Rights Information and Training Center – HRITC for announced that it documented 73 cases of violations against civilians in Taiz Governorate during the month of June.
HRITC said in its monthly report entitled “Taiz .. Siege, Shelling, and Epidemics” that its field team was able to document the killing of 15 civilians, including six women and two children. Another civilian was shot dead by Houthi militants, and gunmen outside the government, including four women and a child, killed 11 civilians and a woman was run over by a military group of gunmen outside the country.
The Center’s team was able to monitor the injury of 32 civilians, including nine children and two women. The Houthi militia injured 18, including 4 children and two women, as 10 civilians, including a woman and 3 children, were injured by artillery shells, and 3 other civilians, including a child, were wounded by a landmine explosion planted by the militia, Also, 4 civilians, including a woman, were wounded by a Houthi sniper and another civilian by a Houthi militia.
In addition, nine civilians were wounded by direct fire outside the country, including a child, and four civilians, including three children, were run over by armed groups outside the country, and one child was wounded by direct fire by unknown gunmen.
The team documented 3 cases in which civilians were assaulted by government security personnel, and 3 cases of kidnappings and enforced disappearances committed by gunmen outside the framework of the State and Houthi and unknown armed men were documented, each of them.
The field team monitored 20 cases of violations of public and private property, including three cases of public property caused by both the Houthi militia and armed men outside the country and members of the government security, one each.
The Center monitored 17 cases of violations of private property, where eight houses were partially damaged and the Houthi militia damaged five private vehicles because of shelling. Houthi snipers damaged a house, and a sewing shop and two private vehicles were damaged by armed clashes outside the country.
The report pointed to the residential areas and neighborhoods that were heavily bombed by the militia of the revolutionary militia with various medium and heavy weapons on the residential neighborhoods of Asifra district, north of the city, and the residential neighborhoods in Al-Saleh Gardens in the Sabr al-Mawadim District and the Al-Ashrouh District of Jabal Habashi District, and intensified their shelling in the Wadi al-Qadi neighborhood and Haret Bani Saif in the Al-Barara area In Al-Mudhafar Directorate.
The report revealed that the Houthi militia imposed new royalties on the residents and villagers of the governorate of Taiz, which are under its control, where militia supervisors informed the population of the need to pay 500 Yemeni riyals “less than a dollar” for every individual in their homes, including children and women, on a monthly basis, noting that The supervisors put their representatives in isolation and the villages under their control to collect these amounts compulsorily and arrest all those who refuse to pay them.
The report touched on the suffering of Al-Mudhafar district from multiple violations, which have emerged more clearly in recent times, due to the intersection of the overcrowded directorate between government forces and the blockade of the Houthi militia located in the line of contact with the Directorate and the proliferation of militants.
The report also examined the increasing security instability in the province by armed groups and some government security personnel who belong to multiple factions.
The report concluded by reviewing the worsening health situation due to the resurgence of viral epidemics and the spread of Corona virus in light of the scarcity of medicines, tests, and oxygen, the absence of some of them and the absence of the role of organizations.
The center said that, according to medical statements, “dengue, malaria and celery fever” chikungunya fever “spread unprecedented along with the spread of the Corona pandemic, and various fevers recorded their highest rate in the past days and suffered from whole neighbourhoods within the city and its surroundings.”
The medical center added, “The medical sources warned of the transformation of Taiz into a hotbed of fever, such as malaria, dengue and celery,” chikungunya fever “due to the presence of the appropriate climatic environment suitable for the growth and presence of its vectors in the absence of hygiene and the exacerbation of the sanitation problem.”
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July 7, 2020
Human Rights Information and Training Center – HRITC
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https://hritc.co/16745?lang=en
