Houthi crimes: African migrants most prominent victims of terrorist militia (Part 4)

Mahmoud al-Batakoushi

Killing and genocide is the fate of everyone who opposes or refuses to implement the orders of the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, especially the African migrants and refugees who pay dearly for their refusal to join the Houthi mercenaries.

The terrorist militia does not hesitate to kill and kidnap dozens of migrants, and it is also recruiting them to fill the deficit in its ranks after the depletion of its human stocks due to the heavy losses suffered on various battle fronts, especially in Marib, Al-Jawf and Al-Bayda.

The Houthi militia does not hesitate to commit crimes against humanity, in violation of all international laws and norms, by recruiting Africans and illegal immigrants and exploiting them in combat actions targeting the security and stability of Yemen and neighboring countries and threatening international interests.

African migrants are placed in a difficult choice of either working within the Houthi fighters or being killed and kidnapped, as the militia was involved in killing more than 450 migrants, most of them from Ethiopia, and wounding more than 1,500 others, which led to a number of immigrants demonstrating in front of the UNHCR in Sanaa, but the militia brutally dispersed them, resulting in dozens of people killed and wounded, and hundreds arrested.

This happened after the Houthis surrounded the protest site by throwing tear gas canisters and firing live bullets, killing two of the protesters and arresting 410 immigrants, including 210 women, 30 children and 170 men, among them 45 Somali immigrants.

The Houthi militia also killed two and abducted dozens of Ethiopians, including 50 women, in Sanaa, which is under the control of the Houthis.

The SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties accused the terrorist militia of causing the killing of African migrants, and that these racist crimes represent an extension of the Houthis’ endless crimes against the Yemeni people.

The human rights organization called on the international community, through the United Nations and its organizations, to clearly condemn the militia’s racist treatment of African refugees, especially since the Houthis constantly violate their dignity.

SAM indicated that the Houthis shipped migrants in five trucks, photographed them and took their fingerprints in the city of Dhamar, and then it transported them and threw them in the open.

Yemeni Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Moammar al-Eryani said that the Houthi militia preempted any formation of international committees to investigate incidents of killing migrants and uncover their circumstances by burying migrants without completing their personal data or completing investigations, in order to prevent the implementation of any investigation that the United Nations might lead under pressure from local and international human rights organizations.

Eryani said that the militia’s attempts to obliterate the features of their crime prompted them to bury the bodies of the victims randomly in a new cemetery on the outskirts of Sanaa, seeking to bury the case and close the crime file by pushing for formal procedures, which confirms the militia’s involvement in the genocide of African migrants.