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For the world, the Houthis’ invasion of the Yemeni capital Sana’a was just an event in history, but for the Yemeni people, it was equal to the fall of Rome at the hands of the Barbarians in 476 A.D, which marked the beginning of the Dark Ages.
What has the international community done all the years after the Houthis’ oppressive coup? The criminal Houthis destroyed the Yemeni state, and stained the history of Yemen with eerie colors.
The Houthis’ oppressive coup took control of the Yemeni state institutions, backed by a regional power that encourages and fuels violent sectarianism with terror.
What did the world provide for Yemenis as they were crying for help and relief? Nothing. And because of that, the Houthis continued their crimes, by choking the population. Yemeni children have suffered from the lack of food and medicine. The hospitals are emptied of medical devices, medicine and even doctors and nurses. And let’s not forget the lands that the Houthis filled with landmines to kill as many civilians as possible.
Yemen is going through the worst era in its history thanks to the Houthis who want to stay in power by following every Machiavellian principle.
The Houthi militias planted hundreds of thousands of landmines and explosive devices in residential areas, highroads and every place they invaded, depriving civilians of the right to return to their liberated regions and limiting their movements, in addition to killing them. And despite all the ordeal that Yemen is going through nowadays, the Houthis keep on planting more landmines and in various ways to massacre civilians.
Yemen sits on the biggest landmine filed in the world, and the true picture of the catastrophe that befell on Yemen won’t be drawn before the end of these hideous militias, because only then, one can see the real results and consequences of the landmines disaster.
Recently, heavy rain torrents unveiled huge numbers of these deadly seeds, after they were drifted and propagated in vast areas, which worsened the situation.
The flowing torrents in mountainous and sloping areas led to the slide of vast minefield areas, like in the city of Hays, south of Al Hudaydah, where landmines settled in civilian roads, instilling fear in the hearts of the inhabitants of Maghari village.
When the “war” is dirty, and its wager has neither morals nor human conscience, the tragedies won’t stop. They will continue to kill more and more while the international community will be watching idly; this community which failed – literally – to protect civilians, as it should have done according to International Human Rights treaties.
The Houthis also ordered their field supervisors and experts in planting landmines in the western coast to extract the landmines from the valleys to fix the explosives that were drifted by the torrents in order to replant them again. This confirms the adherence of these thugs to their bloody and criminal methods.
But in contrast, the teams of Masam move swiftly to clear these thorns out of the Yemenis’ ways to protect their lives. Masam’s clearing teams went to the afflicted areas to survey them in order to save civilians lives. This gesture was much appreciated by the inhabitants of the those regions and spread hope that the coming days will be good.
Masam’s teams are planting life and hope in the middle of ruins. These gigantic humanitarian efforts bore fruits and prevented the Houthis of realizing their evil schemes in Yemen, and saved thousands of lives from an imminent danger that was targeting and hunting them all over the country.
178541 is the number of landmines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices that Masam’s teams were able to clear. The number represents also the would be victims if the landmines weren’t cleared.
The disasters in Yemen won’t stop as long as the Houthis are still there. Yemen won’t recover unless these militias cease to exist, and only then, with the continuation of landmine clearing efforts, Yemenis can enjoy a stable and secure life.