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The description of “Happy Yemen” has been mentioned for decades every time the land of this country is mentioned. But where is the happiness that they talk about amid the rubble, the corpses and the wailing? Today, the meditator will hardly find a single witness to the validity of this phrase that was given to him over a century ago by Western forecasters, when Yemen was adorned with something of its great history before it plunged into the swamps of wars and coups.
What happened in Sanaa on September 21, 2014, is nothing but an era in the long history of the suffering of this country and its people.
The Houthi militias have assassinated the law and the constitution, they buried all agreements aiming to establish peace and have killed every voice opposing their hateful policy.
The night deception and the day cunning were the weapons of these putschists who sought in every way to destroy this country and exterminate its inhabitants.
In an extensive field and research study conducted by the Yemeni Centre “Abaad”for Studies and Research until 2018, frightening numbers appear related to Houthi crimes until the end of 2017 in Yemen in addition to the destruction of infrastructure and social life by undermining security and normal life conditions, in addition to disrupting the wheel of the Yemeni economy and confronting any attempts to end the coup and start a political process that would restore stability.
Mines played a pivotal role in damaging this country, wasting the blood of its people, and spreading fear among civilians. The coup militias planted these explosive cans in all the areas they reached, as well as they continued to bury them in random and regular methods and in large quantities to impose their control by force and satisfy their ego.
Yemen has been afflicted with mines since decades, but what was planted during the Houthi period was the highest and most dangerous due to the huge quantities distributed on this good land, which invaded its childhood, demolished its homes, destroyed its crops and polluted its water.
However, the tragedy did not stop at the amount of mines planted. Rather, the country faced another challenge represented in the state of chaos established by this cultivation of death.
Regular forces usually plant mines in a specific pattern so that they can be collected in the post-conflict phase.
However in stricken Yemen, mines were deployed manually without adopting an identifiable pattern or record. Moreover, hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters can disperse them from their primary locations.
As a result, they can be found along main roads as well as homes, wells and valleys and all over the country which led large areas of lands to become uninhabitable due to mines.
To lift Yemen out of this quagmire and in an attempt to cultivate life instead of death, Project Masam engineering teams are working to remove the filth that this coup group has inflicted on the Yemeni lands, hoping that it can save civilians from the hell of this disaster that befell them.
The project operations room had announced that the field teams were able to clear 1,413 mines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices during the second week of October, bringing the total number of explosives removed from the start of the project until the 16th October to 192467, and also the cleared lands increased to 15,289. 581 square meters.
In the short and long term, the consequences and dangers of mine laying will continue to pose a renewed disaster where this country will continue to suffer from this scourge for decades and damage will continue to harm civilians and their livelihoods.