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The entire world thought that the dire situation in Yemen would be temporary. No Yemeni thought that the grudge in the heart of his enemy would lead the latter to overplant death everywhere in Yemen, after being forced to leave because of his losses.
Everybody thought that the harm would be temporary, like all the wars in history; they start burning like fire then their fire would diminish to ashes after the defeat of one of its parties, but what happened in Yemen turned the bleeding into streams and even into rivers. The bleeding can’t stop because of an unmerciful weapon that rips its victims apart and take surprisingly their lives out; the landmines.
The Houthi militias found themselves out of the frying pan, into the fire; between the mighty force of the coalition that is standing against their rogue ideology, and the resilience of the Yemeni people, and their rejection of any conspiracy against their country. This is why the criminal militias used landmines as a weapon to inflict more pain on Yemenis, and these landmines opened their wounds widely and left the Yemeni people in agony.
The Yemenis were an inch away from the end of the war and its bloody conflicts, but instead, they found themselves facing a dilemma; wherever they make a step, the earth shakes beneath them and explodes under their feet, because the Houthis planted every inch of land they passed through with camouflaged landmines, in hysteric ways that unveil their thirst for blood.
Little by little, the vision got clearer with the arrival of project Masam for Landmine Clearnce in Yemen; the country afflicted with the deadly explosive traps. This vision meant that Yemeni lands were planted at random, with thousands of thousands of landmines in high impact areas, and that minefields were all over Yemen; they covered the plains, deserts and mountains in vast and dispersed areas.
The true face of the tragedy was uncovered, as the survey operations and the hard work of project Masam’s teams showed that landmines are a real pandemic that can neither be ignored nor forgotten, and that it should be solved through serious work and professional handling.
And this is what the project has been doing in Yemen since its launch over two years ago. The project made sacrifices and huge efforts to inform the world about this landmines pandemic which is harming Yemen badly and which needs an international humanitarian attention, in order to protect innocent Yemeni civilians from the explosive death, to heal their wounds and bring the smiles back to their frowned faces, hoping that happiness will return to this country which has been always known as “The happy Yemen”.