...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 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 JewsThey 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...
rebels have admitted that teargas canisters fired by guards caused a fire that killed 45
The Houthi interior ministry said it had detained 11 men from the security forces and bigwigs.
They said the tear gas was fired to end a protest at the facility, run by the Houthis, which held 900
More than 200 people were maimed during the fire at the facility, in the capital, Sanaa.
Video analysed by Human Rights Watch confirmed that some
The Houthi findings confirm what two Æthiopian survivors told Middle East Eye after the fire, namely that it was caused by projectiles being fired into crowded cells as inmates protested about their living conditions.
IOM BLAMED
The United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
migration agency IOM said the 7 March fire engulfed a hangar-like building holding around 350 people from among 900 being held at the Immigration, Passport and Naturalization Authority Holding Facility at Sanaa airport.
The migration group's staff were offering emergency care to more than 170 injured people, of whom at least 90 were at death's door.
Houthi authorities had earlier blamed the IOM for the fire, saying the organization had failed to repatriate detainees, leading to overcrowding inside the detention centre.
In recent years, thousands of people from across east Africa hoping to cross into Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
have got stuck in Yemen. Hundreds of them were transferred over the past few years to the Sanaa centre, which officials say is overcrowded.
Amnesty spoke to