Deliberate impoverishment and starvation.. the death of 35 academics at Sana'a University
English - Thursday 12 August 2021 الساعة 11:03 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
Prof. Yahya Muhammad al-Mutahhar, Professor of Public Administration and Political Science - Head of the Political Science Department - at Sana'a University, died on Wednesday, August 11, in harsh living conditions, nearly 5 years after the Houthi militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen - looted salaries. State employees, including university professors and teachers.
According to working sources at Sana’a University who spoke to (NewsYemen), the academic, Al-Mutahhar, director of the Public Administration Center at Sana’a University, died one day after the death of the professor in the Department of Economics and Agricultural Extension at Sana’a University (College of Agriculture), Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghanem, in similar living conditions, bringing the number of Deaths among academics at Sana’a University to 35 academics since the beginning of this year 2021.
Two days ago, the Syndicate of faculty members and their assistants at Sana'a University announced the death of Professor / Yasser Muhammad Ghaleb Al-Gharifi, a teacher at the Faculty of Engineering, and a delegate from Sana'a University to prepare a doctorate degree in the Arab Republic of Egypt.
As part of a series of crimes targeting the best scientific cadres at the University of Sana’a, Dr. Muhammad Ali Ali Masoud Naim, a faculty member in the Department of Architecture - College of Engineering, was assassinated on Wednesday evening, August 4, in the center of the capital, Sana’a.
The sources revealed to (NewsYemen) the death of 68 academics from Sana’a University in 2020, including 27 administrators and technicians, in compelling living conditions. Psychological pressures and harsh living conditions, in addition to the Covid-19 pandemic, destroyed dozens of Sana’a University academics during the years 2014-2019.
Since their salaries were stopped in September 2016, academics and employees of Sana’a University have been suffering from destitution, disease and debt accumulation, and are facing the specter of eviction from their homes due to their inability to pay house rents, while some of them were forced to engage in other hard jobs and professions to satisfy the hunger of their children.
In their media discourse, the leaders of the Houthi militia talk about "dignity and dignity" and other enthusiastic consumer terms, but in return - and on the ground - they penetrated into the poverty industry, the development of unemployment, the flourishing of financial and administrative corruption, and the black market trade.
Indicators of poverty in Yemen have escalated in a terrifying and frightening manner, with the salaries of more than 1.2 million Yemeni employees being cut, and more than 7 million citizens have become without income due to the suspension of most of the work. According to international statistics, Yemen ranks 151 out of 177 countries on the Human Development Index.
