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Anyone who follows the history of the terrorist Houthi militia, which is an extension of the history of the Imamate, finds that what it is doing stems from its extremist ideas in support of the Iranian project and its expansionist ambitions.
Since the first shot in its rebellion against the Yemeni state, this group has been including educational curricula and mosques as priorities by turning them into means to market its sectarian project which is based on violence and to be able to integrate the youth minds and turn them into tools of killing.
But despite this, the pride of these militias has not recovered, given that this method requires a lot of time, in case they were able to implement it due to the position of Yemenis rejecting their presence in the first place. Therefore, it raised the severity of its aggression and, since the first months of its coup, it began to spread mines in various areas. This made the Yemeni territories witness the largest mine-laying operation in the world.
Several reports indicated that these putschists planted more than two million mines of various kinds during the past years, which was described as “the largest land-bombing operation since the Second World War,” which caused the displacement of the people.
There are hundreds of thousands of displaced people who want to return to their homes, but cannot because of the mines that have been buried in a massive and random manner without clear maps.
These coup militias not only planted mines in cities and regions, but also booby-trapped uninhabited Yemeni islands, including 16,000 mines on Mayyun Island in Bab al-Mandab strait, according to Yemeni army officials.
The Houthi group often resort to obliterating the features of mines and their manufacturing origins before planting them, then camouflaging them in an attractive and unremarkable forms in order to facilitate the capture of their victim, which has not yet understood what it is. In a related context, Team 26 Masam managed to dismantle an explosive device camouflaged in the form of a stone that the criminal hands had planted near the secondary road leading to the village of Dubla in Al-Khokha Directorate to target civilians.
On the journey to find Yemen without mines, Project Masam expanded the work map of its engineering teams to include new regions and governorates. In this context, Masam experts in Aden and the western coast carried out an inspection visit to Al-Alam region, east of Aden Governorate, to survey the area and determine the suspected contaminated areas with explosives that threaten the lives of civilians, especially shepherds and farmers, and then divide them to areas and fields for clearance. Team 30 has been tasked with this work to begin examining, marking and treating these pollutants.
It worth noting that during the first week of October, Masam teams were able to remove 1857 mines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices, bringing the total of what was removed from the project launch until the 9 October, 2020, to 191054.
The engineering teams of Project Masam continue their fateful battle against an enemy hidden in the ground, with the aim of securing lives of millions of Yemenis from the Houthi mines that destroyed buildings, tightened the noose on the people and tampered with their bodies.