The Houthis declare the start of classes before a month and a half of its scheduled date… Why?

Houthi’s crimes have not stopped over the past years, as the Houthi militia continues to strike all customs and conventions by flooding Yemen with drugs and weapons. But what is more brutal is the intensification of the Houthi militia’s use of children as human shields and recruitment with the aim of involving them in wars and terrorist operations. The Houthi terrorist militia, supported by Iran, announced the start of the current school year one and a half months ahead of its usual schedule.

Recruiting Yemeni children

Local reports confirmed that the militia intends to end the school year before or during the month of Ramadan, in order to recruit and train Yemeni children to bear arms. In the next few days, the Houthi militia will recruit more Yemeni children through schools. During this period, the Houthi militia organizes awareness and promotional activities for summer centers, and uses its celebration of the anniversary of the killing of its founder Hussein Al-Houthi, according to the Hijri calendar, which it organizes these days, to promote summer centers and urge families to push their children to these centers in the coming weeks. Houthi leaders in 2012 promised to end the use of child soldiers. Despite these promises, the United Nations verified 4,418 violations against children in Yemen in 2020, at the hands of the Houthi militia.

Mobilization

Virginia Gamba, the senior official at the United Nations for children in war zones, stressed that the lesson is in implementation, saying that the Houthis’ move is a positive step, but she stressed that “the most difficult part of the journey is now beginning.” During these events, Houthi leaders focus their speeches on the summer centers, considering that Hussein Al-Houthi was the founder of the militias and was the first to establish them and use them to attract militia members and fighters. In these speeches, they call for supporting and participating in the summer centers, and participate what is known as the Central Committee for Mobilization and Mobilization, in these activities organized by militia leaders under the auspices of provincial leaders, who talk about the importance of education and distribute documents during the summer centers to participate in it to recruit children.

Houthi bankruptcy

Fouad Masaad, a Yemeni political analyst, said the more the Houthi militia waged war on Yemen and the Yemenis, the more children they recruited and pushed on battlefronts in various provinces, the less truce Houthi – who wants to destroy Yemen – could bring.

“The Houthis’ reliance on children is a clearer expression of their bankruptcy than the human power destroyed by the war, and also is proof that the militia itself is in big financial crisis, Masaad said. Since its inception, the Houthi group has been engaged in misleading and deceiving society and exporting illusions and superstitions.”