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The world has never experimented quarantine and social distancing at a major scale like these days due to the Coronavirus pandemic, that put the entire humanity in one trench: hiding and fearing for their lives.
Our world is going through this hardship, facing a lot of challenges such as: insuring that the people comply with quarantine and social distancing because no vaccine or treatment has been found yet for this pandemic, and all of us feel the difficulty of living with an invisible merciless enemy.
But what about Yemen? It has been living besieged by the mines for many years, and the lives of its inhabitants have turned upside down, as people there lost their basic freedoms of moving, working and socializing due to what the mines did to them. People lived and are still living in fear, isolation, displacement, powerlessness and suffering.
What about those who are besieged by the mines? Those who are still facing the grudge of the deadly traps? Those whom the world turned the back on, as their tragedies were kept in the margins and were forgotten for a long time, until Masam project landed in Yemen as a beacon of hope and generosity that lent a helping hand to the Yemenis, by saving them from thousands of mines, and making their voices heard all over the world, by showing the evil crimes of the militias, and the challenge that lays ahead of this project to clear Yemen from the ordeal of mines, and also the role that should be played by the international community towards those innocent people whom the mines forfeited the lives and deprived them from the right to live in dignity.
With the quarantine imposed due to the Corona ordeal, the world can now feel a little bit of what the Yemeni people have been going through for many years, even if the comparison may have a lot of differences, the the Corona pandemic may give the world an idea about the Yemeni reality, because experience is the best method to learn and feel about the others.
The Coronavirus took away the people’s social lives and limited their movements in fear for their lives. The mines in Yemen have done the same and in a monstrous way, because prevention from the pandemic can be achieved by taking precautionary measures, sanitization and the scientific researches that are taking place to find a vaccine for the disease, but with the mines, just a step can cost you your life, and guessing the whereabouts of the deadly traps is almost impossible because they were planted randomly and camouflaged by using malign methods.
Yemen has suffered and is still going through hard times because of the mines’ ordeal, but the arrival of Masam in Yemen healed a lots of its wounds. Hope shows on the faces of the Yemeni people whenever they see Masam deploying its teams to save them from the death buried underground. Masam’s resolve and hard work in Yemen remain the effective tool to lift the siege of mines, and bring joy to the hearts of the Yemenis.