The "Blind Killer"... A shocking number for the victims of Houthi mines in Yemen
English - Wednesday 06 April 2022 الساعة 01:46 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
The American Center for Justice (an unofficial organization), launched its report entitled "Mines: The Blind Killer", which monitors and documents cases of killing, injury and destruction of property, as a result of the mines that the Houthi terrorist militia alone planted.
The report, which was issued in conjunction with the International Day for Mine Awareness, indicated that from June 2014 to February 2022, about 2526 civilians were killed, including 429 children and 217 women.
In addition, 3,286 others were injured, including 723 children and 220 women, in 17 Yemeni governorates, and 75% of them were permanently disabled or disfigured throughout their lives.
The report indicated that the Houthi militias systematically planted individual and locally manufactured mines in all the military sites they control and in the areas and roads from which they withdraw in random ways without any military necessity.
The report documented the total destruction of about 425 different private transportation means and 163 partially due to landmines, and Houthi mines killed 33 workers in the Saudi Masam project to clear mines in Yemen, including 5 foreign experts, and injured 40 other experts.
He revealed the total destruction of 334 farms by the Houthi militia, and the death of 2,158 cases of livestock, as well as documenting dozens of cases of the putschists planting internationally prohibited individual mines in roads, pastures, homes and drinking water wells.
The Houthi militia has also planted mines in villages and rural areas, preventing and impeding humanitarian aid from reaching the least vulnerable groups, impeding children's access to schools, and forcing civilians to forcibly flee from their homes.
The report made several recommendations, including for the Yemeni government to take all necessary legal measures to hold Houthi officials accountable for planting individual or vehicle mines as violators of human rights; before national and international courts.
It also recommended the international community to include Houthi military leaders "involved in the crimes of killing civilians with mines" in the sanctions list issued by the Security Council, stressing the need to open an independent investigation into the Houthis' excessive and indiscriminate use of mines without military necessity and in violation of the provisions of the 1997 Ottawa Convention.
