[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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...
militias have embraced a systematic strategy to distort 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...
social structure designed to create rifts between the country’s different tribes by employing its alliance to eradicate others against the militia.
Ten tribes, based in four different provinces, suffered the most from the despot Houthi’s callous military and economic campaigns inflicting human loss, displacement of families, and mass property damages.
These tribes are:
Sana’a: Arhab and Bani Dubian
Dhumar: Atmah and al-Haddah
Ibb: Al Khafar, al Shawour, al-Adin, Ba’dan, al Radmah, al Oud, al Siyahi
Al Hudaydah: al-Zaranik
Furthermore, the militia also resorted to various economic means to penalize and repress opponents from civil servants terminating the service of thousands of them and replacing them with henchmen, in addition to halting salary payments to hundreds of thousands of workers in civil and military sections.