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Families were displaced, homes were demolished, women were widowed, kids were orphaned and a country was booby-trapped with millions of mines and explosive devices.
This is the state of Yemen after the coup of the deathly and destructive militias against the Yemeni state and their declaration of war against the Yemeni people.
In the plains of Tihamah, where simplicity and love prevail, where the scent of sea is mixed with the warmth of the place, the locals lived in that atmosphere until they were invaded by the putschist Houthis, since then every good thing turned into tears and sadness that one can see in the faces of children, and in the wrinkles of the elderly.
The tears and prayers of Hajja “Salma Sa’id” describe what letters and words can not express; they convey a clear image of the catastrophe that the criminal Houthi militias committed against this woman who is an example of the many victims whom one can find everywhere in Yemen.
Hajja “Salam Sa’id” who is from Al Ruwais region of Al Makha directorate, tells Masam’s media office her painful and sad story, and the extent of her suffering after the Houthis’ mines took the lives of her two sons, by a marine mine which blew up their boat when they were looking for the source of their living to feed their children.
Hajja “Salma Sa’id” complains about her situation with a deep sadness that exhausted her weak body, and with the voice of a bereaved mother, she says: “They took everything from me, and left me to live in a torment”, then she lifts her hands towards the sky to complain to God, and pleads to him to punish those who killed her sons, and left her helpless, tasting the bitterness of life, and cruelty of deprivation.
Hajja Salma says: “My sorrow over my sons is renewed every moment I look at their kids’ eyes; they became orphans because of the Houthis’ mines, with no one to support them”.
The Houthi militias left behind them so many tragedies, in every house on the coast, against the innocents who lived all their lives far away from the culture of weapons and killings.
The story of Hajja “Salma Sa’id” is one of hundreds of tragic stories that were written by the Houthis’ mines which were planted in land and sea.
Through our meetings with mines’ victims, we realized how the Houthis indulged themselves in planting randomly huge numbers of mines in all the areas that are close to populated villages and cities, and using methods that are prohibited by the international community, and dirty tactics in planting every device or mine without any care about the lives of unarmed civilians, like women and children, or about the danger that these vicious weapons will leave behind for decades, because these mines don’t expire with the passage of time, and they remain time bombs that will explode as soon as someone gets close to them.