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Painfully, people’s days pass in a number of Yemeni regions which is exhausted by war, the youth bleeding like the amputated limbs, and their souls are standing with half bodies in the heart of scattered death all over Yemen due to mines and explosive objects planted by the militia in the Yemenis paths, turning their lives into a huge funeral for seven years.
Young, old, land and even animals, everyone is targeted by explosive death traps, mines danger was not limited to specific groups but their damages and consequences extended to everything.
Yemenis children are the most affected by Houthi militia mines planted along farms, roads, residential neighborhoods and beaches, persistent in committing crimes and violations against children and depriving them their right to play, fun and education, causing the death of many and causing others psychological effects and sustainable disabilities that made their lives almost on hold
In Al-Siman village in Dhubab Directorate, west Yemen, the child Haidari Ibrahim Ahmed, aged 15, lives with half body after the mines took most of his limbs, making him one of thousands of stories and vivid evidence of the militias terrorism in Yemen
Here, Haidari Ibrahim tells his story with pain, which he tries to hide after he decided to challenge disability, holding the book in one hand and pen in the other and crawling with what was left of his body towards school to continue his education.
Haydari tells his story to Masam Media Office, saying, “While I was practicing sheep herding, in the mountains of Al-Siman village in Dhubab Directorate suburbs, where I usually go with my companions in my spare time after school to graze sheep, which is our only source of livelihood, as in my village, after God’s care, these sheep are our main source of sustenance so raising them and taking care of them are very important to us. The coup and the events, tragedies, displacement and displacement that followed changed the course of our lives and exposed us to various kinds of suffering. Hardly a day passes for us without one of our sheep falling victim to mines or some of our relatives falling into the trap of deadly mines so that our suffering and losses continue, and throughout this period I used to be a mine observer, watching who get rescued and who perishes because of explosive death traps, and I never imagined myself in the place of one of them”
Then he continued, “One of the sorrowful and sad mornings of Siman village, I went out with my sheep to the mountains to graze on a regular task that I do intermittently as I take turns with my brothers on this work, and while grazing and following the sheep from one place to another, one of my sheep went up the mountain so I went to bring it back to the rest of the herd, I walked with faint steps aiming to be above the stones to avoid mines explodes, while climbing and in a lightning moment I stepped on something that exploded and throw me away, I felt severe pain and lack of control over my lower body. I heard my friend’s voice crying and screaming in fear, and the shepherds voices who rushed to the explosion sound, but none of them dared to help me fearing of mines and I sat bleeding at the explosion site until the demining teams arrived to pick me up but I was no longer feeling my body”
Haidari Ibrahim went on recounting his story while the scenes of death and pain storming his memory and with a sad voice mixed with pain, he said, “I stayed in the hospital for several months to receive treatment and then I got out, or actually half of me went out as I lost one leg during the explosion, and the other was amputated in the hospital, I got out of the hospital full of despair and weakness, thinking how I will enter my village with half my body, and how I will be able to face the harshness of life that I could not face while I was with my whole body”.
Here, he said, “I faced many difficulties after my return to the village, my movement was no longer the same as before, I faced difficulty to move in the village, relying on my hands. I felt that I did not want to go to school, because it is far from my home or, actually from my pavilion as I do not own a house and it is difficult to go every day by walking on hands, not on foot. I decided to quit studying and sit at home. But my mother always used to tell me, God took your legs from you, but he blessed you with an intelligent mind that accommodates everything and education will provide you an easier life, you are no longer able to lead a herding life, God willing, you will succeed in works that are in line with your physical capabilities, and with encouragement and support of my mother, I decided to continue my education, my hope renewed and I went to school every day, and all my colleagues and teachers support me and deal with me very kindly ..All I hope for is a wheelchair that helps me move to and from school to continue my education and achieve my dream, which I insisted on achieving with the remainder of my body, I also hope that Project Masam will completely clear Siman Mountain of mines, to retain security and citizens can go to their farms safely. “