The Houthis loot the villages... Consolidating the Imamate's control

English - Tuesday 14 June 2022 الساعة 08:52 am
Ibb, NewsYemen, private:

Private sources in Ibb governorate stated that endowment employees have recently intensified their visits to the countryside, to urge citizens to visit endowment offices in the districts, unless there are penalties that may amount to land confiscation.  Something that some described as very dangerous, based on blackmail and the lack of a clear vision of what will follow these directives.

Citizens assured "NewsYemen" that for the first time in decades they are seeing a campaign asking them to do so, with the importance of paying the arrears according to the new pricing.

One of them added, I asked about the reasons for the change and its goal and why all these campaigns and decisions, to which one of them replied: "You must realize that you are in front of a new regime and state, and there is a change in everything."

The source indicated that they were surprised when they visited the endowment offices, that there were really new data, and the documentation of records with different fees, which makes the endowment lands in the wind.

Restoration of the land and the Imamate 

The militia is actively seeking to focus on everything related to the imamate, including the land that they firmly believe belongs to a limited group of families that, at one time, endowed it and placed it as a trust in return for a certain wage with the citizens.

On the other hand, many citizens are not aware of what is going on in the corridors of the endowment and ministry offices, nor what the goals of the changes are.

Reports indicate that there is an organized looting process that has nothing to do with the preservation of waqf lands, which is carried out in a systematic manner and forged documents carried out by a group of leaders;  In order to seize as much land, change the features of the rest of them. 

The last of these encroachments was in the residential city in the Sawan area in Sana'a. The open spaces in front of the residential buildings were dramatically fenced off;  On the pretext that there were disputes with the bank that rented the land since the seventies, which was denied, before a group of citizens demolished those walls built of bricks.

In addition, according to the sources, some supervisors who have become very rich during the last period tried to buy apartments from citizens inside the city with large sums and in hard currency in preparation for their complete control.

Organizations denounce 

Human rights organizations had submitted reports condemning the militia’s looting of lands and other confiscations of the state and citizens, including the “Sam” Organization for Rights and Freedoms, which confirmed in its reports that the Houthis continue to loot lands in Sana’a, rob citizens’ homes, expropriate their private lands, and prevent them  of building in it.

The organization clarified that this constitutes serious violations of freedoms and violates all laws in the Yemeni constitution and the rights guaranteed to citizens.

The abuses did not stop at this point, as it amounted to competition to own the largest amount of land among the leaders, not to mention the confiscation of dozens of apartments that used to house doctors and academics at Sana’a University from which they were expelled, some of whom have nearly 40 years of teaching.

Some of these lands were also turned into camps or areas belonging to the militia, as a form of fraud in order to facilitate their confiscation.

 Plunder saila lands

The militia in Sana'a alone tampered with the lands of 30 housing associations belonging to employees and citizens.  In addition to green spaces and central islands, the latest of which was what happened in the residential city of Sawan, according to reports.

One of the engineers in the Al-Saila project told "NewsYemen" that large areas were looted on the banks of the liquid in separate areas, the most important of which is next to the police hospital, and along the line that starts from the vicinity of the "Presidency House" in the Qadisiyah and Al-Asbahi area in the south, passing through the part adjacent to the old Sana'a until the airport  Sana'a towards the Arhab area.

He added, the attempts and correspondence with many authorities and leaders, including the capital's secretariat and state properties, failed to stop this distortion and systematic looting.

And he concluded, they had previously distorted the walls, bridges and gardens of the questioner with banners, pictures of their leaders and their dead who fell on the front lines, death slogans and sectarian expressions, and even pictures of leaders from Iran and Hezbollah.

There are hundreds of complaints and grievances filed by citizens in Sana’a, Ibb, Taiz, Hajjah, Amran, Dhamar, Al-Bayda, and Al-Hodeidah, for which inspection committees were set up, but they were closer to the saying “Who is the complainant if your opponent is the judge?”