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Houthi rebels using Yemeni prisoners as human shields, rights group claims
[ARABNEWS] Yemeni detainees are being used as human shields at Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... militia prisons, the International Association for Peace and Human Rights (IAPHR) has claimed. The human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. group outlined two reports on the Houthi coup in Yemen  ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...and its humanitarian impact on Yemeni civilians at a seminar at the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... in Geneva on March 3. Hamdan Zaid Dammaj, vice president of the IAPHR’s Yemeni Organization for Studies and Research, said there were 1,202 documented incidents of Yemeni detainees being used as human shields at 59 detention centers throughout the country. Detention centers included schools, residential facilities and sports clubs that had been turned into military barracks by Houthi militia, he said. Dammaj said the detainees were government supporters, including media activists, politicians from the Reform Party, as well as 130 intellectuals and 181 military personnel. Posted by: Fred 2018-03-04 |
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