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An international report published by international and regional experts in Yemeni affairs confirmed that the anti-personnel landmines planted by the Houthis in Yemen are a violation of humanitarian international law. The report noted that the landmines are still killing and maiming the Yemeni people and are preventing the possibility of getting to agricultural lands and any activity of food collection.
The report which was distributed to journalists yesterday said “The team of experts investigated the illegal use of anti-personnel landmines and anti-vehicle landmines in Yemen”.
In the same context, The Managing Director of the Saudi Program for Mine Clearance in Yemen “Masam”, Mr. Ousama Algosaibi, indicated that the program, and since the first day of its launch, worked on clearing 183 thousand explosive devices and landmines which were hiding under the feet of children, farmers, women, merchants, workers and innocent civilians who were not involved in the war.
Algosaibi, and according to the Saudi Press Agency “WAS”, described the planting of thousands of landmines in Yemen without maps as an operation that threatens the country and its people for decades, and that its impact doesn’t last only for the time of war; it extends to a much longer period.
Algosaibi said: “There are thousands who lost their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, daughters and sons due to the landmines and explosive devices which the Houthi militias planted in different Yemeni regions. There are thousands who lost their limbs and became unable to walk, or handicapped because of this grave crime against humanity”.
He added: “We (in Masam) are working with all our energy to double the efforts in order to speed up the clearance of the lands which we discover that they are mined, in order to help the Yemenis to move without fear. Lands are roads for humans, and shouldn’t be a cause to intimidate or frighten them”.