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Houthis Accused of Setting Detention Center on Fire with Ethiopian Migrants Inside
2021-03-11
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] 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...
’s legitimate government and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activists in Sanaa are accusing Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s of killing dozens of Æthiopian migrants colonists after the Iran-backed turbans set a detention center ablaze in the capital on Sunday.

Houthis burned down the center after the migrants colonists refused to join their ranks.

The number of victims who died in the fire remains unknown, but activist sources are saying the figure exceeded 180.

"The incident left hundreds of African migrants colonists killed or injured," Yemeni Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani confirmed in an official statement.

He exposed the Houthis for having the dead collectively buried in a new graveyard in an attempt to hide the crime.

"The incident came after the Houthis arrested African refugees from streets and markets and asked them to choose between indoctrination courses and then participation in fighting or imprisonment and repatriation, and after the refugees protested against maltreatment in jails that lack the lowest humanitarian criteria," he explained.

Eryani said that the government was urging for an international, transparent, and independent probe into the fire.

The minister called for the release of all the detainees, in conformity with Yemen's commitments in this regard, and for refugees be allowed free movement or voluntary return home.

Earlier on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Houthis to allow humanitarian access to injured migrants colonists.

When the fire started, there were some 900 migrants colonists, most of them Æthiopians, in the crowded detention center, and the hangar area hosted more than 350 migrants colonists, IOM said in a statement.

The group's staff were offering emergency care to more than 170 injured people, of whom at least 90 were at death's door.

Local activists circulated leaked footage showing the burning of dozens of immigrants colonists inside the detention center, confirming that the militias were the only party responsible for the heinous crime.
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