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“The coup in Yemen resulted in the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.” This phrase has been repeated many times, but what do these words mean exactly? We can understand these words when we see mothers in refugee camps doing their best in order to provide food for their children, or when we see tears in the minds of fathers and mothers as they bid farewell their beloved to their last shelter after been turned to pieces by the widespread mines or while waiting in hospitals corridors waiting the news of saving their children’s lives, or when we find thousands of families in the open without shelter in cities where the infrastructure that supports the continuation of normal life has collapsed, In cities where garbage is piled up in the streets, water supply is disrupted and hospitals not only suffer from a shortage of life-saving medicine and equipment, but also suffer from massive damage as a result of bombing or booby-trapping.
Militias do not leave a place in Yemen without leaving an inhuman imprint in it. Mines represented the bloodiest and darkest imprint, it contributed to the leveling and death of the fertile Yemeni land.
Since the beginning of the coup, the militias have planted anti-personnel mines against the Yemenis, who were initially deceived by the ideas of this false group as they claimed their support for the revolution and gave them confidence, to turn later like a snake on their throats and spew its poison into it.
The means of death from mines varied between anti-vehicle and improvised explosive devices, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent citizens, in addition to the permanent disability of others. The militia began to transform mine-planting into a threatening and scarecrow method to spread fear and terror among Yemenis in every area they loose, so the areas of land planted with mines expanded to include at first the governorates of Lahj, Al-Dhale’e, Abyan and Shabwah, and extended north to Taiz, Al-Bayda and Ma’rib governorates, ending with the infestation of more than 15 governorates.
The threat of mines is great and widespread, as the mine problem has become a major problem threatening lives and future of civilians, there will be no safe life as a result of the density of mines that this group planted randomly on roads, farms, residential areas and everything related to people’s lives in their homes and livelihoods.
The coup militias are exploiting the silence of the international community about their crimes to continue violating the Sweden agreement by killing more Yemenis and harassing them by blowing up homes and displacing their residents.
This group renewed its criminal action last week, as it blew up 13 residential homes in Taiz Governorate. This governorate is at the forefront of the Yemeni governorates in terms of victims of house bombings, with more than 150 houses out of a total of 816 homes that were blown up.
Militias have thrown Yemen into mines’ incinerator without hesitation, that’s why Project Masam seeks to clear all Yemeni lands of mine remnants and unexploded ordnance that have killed thousands of people under the supervision of cadres with international experience.
To date, it has cleared 208,505 mines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices, also recently carried out the destruction and detonation of 1,810 mines and explosive devices in Bab Al-Mandab region on the western coast.
Project teams are working at an accelerated pace to enable residents to recover their stolen lives and return to their homes from which they were forcibly displaced.
Mines remain the biggest threat to human and animal life in the present and in future, as their survival will cause more lives and serious material damage. Therefore, this country remains in urgent need of massive international humanitarian efforts to purify it from this scourge.