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The planting of landmines has become a norm for the Houthis, despite the various calls for the Iranian backed militias to refrain from planting this disease which is prohibited by the entire international community, due to its danger on civilians.
The shocking statistics about landmines’ planting in Yemen turned the country – which has been always described the “Happy Yemen” – into the most landmine contaminated country in the world. This disastrous calamity makes it very difficult and complicated to clear landmines and destroy them for the sake of Yemenis.
The Houthi militia is the only party in the conflict that plants landmines in Yemeni lands and seas, as a strategy to take revenge on civilians who hate its presence, and also to hamper the advance of the government forces into the regions under its control.
The Yemeni government announced in the middle of 2018 that the Houthi rebels planted thousands of sea mines at random in the red sea, in a blatant threat to international navigation and to Yemeni fishermen who rely on the sea as their main source of living.
This is why Yemeni civilians are the first victims of this enemy who came brutally, backed by evil forces that consider bloodshed as the only way to achieve their goals. The number of victims will continue to rise as long as the land is contaminated with landmines and war remnants, and as long as the militias keep planting them.
It is obvious that the Houthis have not come suddenly to Yemen, or that they are the logical outcome of recent events. They stormed into the lives of Yemenis as cruel and criminal thugs, and this has been proven in detail throughout the years.
The Houthis have used evil methods to inflict pain on Yemenis, and especially by camouflaging various kinds of landmines and explosives, so that civilians fall victims to these “deceitful camouflaged traps”.
This is why the clearers of landmines find themselves facing a very difficult mission, due to the difficulties lying in dealing with “the booby-trapped landmines”, because clearing landmines and explosive devices (which work with electric circuit or with infrared) is a very complicated process, in addition to the presence of “camouflaged traps” made of “bump ropes”.
But despite these obstacles and challenges, project Masam’s teams were able to clear 172823 landmines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices, from the launch of the project to the 2nd of July.
And with the fall of every victim to these damned landmines in Yemen, the need to make more efforts becomes a necessity, in order to force this criminal militias to refrain from leading their campaign of terror that will haunt the Yemenis for many years to come.