Press Release
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Today, Wednesday 12/14/2022, The Forum for Development and Human Rights Dialogue (FDHRD) issues a study on the crimes of the Houthis during the year 2022, their emergence, their beliefs, and the sectors that the Houthi militia deliberately targeted and destroyed, such as health, education, water, religious belief, and the rights of women and children. It also provides for this some cases that were monitored, as well as cases of killing, kidnapping, torture, displacement throughout the year 2022.
The report indicates that the violations committed by the Houthi militia against the Yemeni people have left a lot of suffering and wounds. The militia has been repeating and increasing the abuse. It has committed many crimes against the Yemeni people, using all the heinous tools and methods against the Yemeni people.
The report also indicated that more than 5,119 Houthi violations of health facilities, hospitals and health workers were recorded in separate areas of Yemen during the period from 2018 to March 2022.
The report also made it clear that the Houthi movement aims to restore the Imamate regime. They seek to separate northern Yemen from its south. They do not believe in a unified Yemen, seeking to build a parallel army in order to implement their plan.
The report also indicated that the violations committed by the Houthi militia in the various sectors represented in the health sector, freedom of religion and belief, citizen’s right to education, and water networks and laboratories affected the citizen’s right to obtain water. The killings, and other violations affected their right to life and other rights stipulated in international conventions on human rights
The report concluded with the following recommendations:
- The Houthis must be held accountable before international criminal courts for crimes against humanity they have committed, especially the Houthi leaders who worked to destroy state institutions.
- The international community has to take a real action to impose binding international resolutions on the Houthis.
- The Security Council must impose strict sanctions if the Houthis refuse to implement the decisions the resolutions.
- Arms transfers to Yemen must be monitored with issuing decisions banning heavy and medium weapons, punishing anyone who does otherwise.
- Sanctions must be imposed on countries that support the Houthi movement and provide them with weapons in order to continue the fighting.
- Transitional justice mechanisms need to be implemented in the Yemeni society to establish peace and security and build a democratic society.
- Fact-finding committees should be established to clarify and monitor the violations committed by the Houthis in Yemen, in order to put a deterrent punishment against them.
- There must be a decisive military confrontation against the Houthi group in order to restore security and peace to the state once again.
- Means of protection need to be available for vulnerable groups, such as women, children and the elderly, in addition to civilians, as they are the groups most vulnerable to harm in that war.
For his part, Saeed Abdel Hafez, Head of the FDHRD, stressed the need for the international community to intervene in order to provide more protection for the weaker groups within Yemeni society, including women, children, and the elderly, who are most vulnerable to Houthi militia violations. Al-Hilali Muhammad, a researcher at the FDHRD, confirmed that the Houthis have increased their strength as a result of external support for them. The passive attitude from the international community led to an increase in violation of all recognized human rights using degrading and inhumane treatment. He called for a strong
