[14/12/2021 04:43]
ADEN-SABA
More than 100 Yemeni, US and European organizations have demanded European Parliament to impose sanctions on Iran-backed Houthi militia and to ensure punishment on its leaders over their systematic crimes against civilians.
In a joint release directed to the Presidency and Premiership of the European Parliament on Tuesday, the organizations made it clear that the militia committed different types of crimes against Yemeni people; killing, torture, kidnapping, illegal arrest, forcibly disappearance, recruiting children, besieging cities, bombing houses and planting different types of landmines and laying sea mines.
The release pointed out that the militia adopted poverty and hunger approach by looting salaries of government employees, looting humanitarian assistances and selling them in black markets and banning access to humanitarian assistances by needy people.
The release unearthed that the militia recruited more than 30 thousand children since 2014 and used public schools and facilities as training camps, in addition to adopting educational system inciting for violence and extremist thoughts and executed last September nine civilians among them a child.
The release revealed that the militia's crimes and violations against women; killing, physical aggression, kidnapping and sexual violence, noting that there are more than 1800 women in Houthi militia's detention cells.
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