A Cry from Taiz: Get the Muslim Brotherhood Out of Our Classrooms

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What could be worse than depriving students of their right to education? Perhaps seeing them trapped in what resembles a “school detention camp,” sitting on the floor while military forces occupy their air-conditioned classrooms and well-equipped workshops.

This disturbing scene, revealed by a video circulated on local media, has sparked outrage in Taiz and reopened the debate about the “military occupation” of educational institutions by brigades affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

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The video shows students from the Al-Hasb Technical Institute crammed into a suffocatingly small classroom, where multiple sections are forced to share the same space. Some students sit on the floor, while others stand outside, straining to catch fragments of the lecture without even being able to see their teacher.

This situation is not an exception but rather the grim reality faced by vocational students for years, as the main buildings of their institutes remain under the control of the Taiz Military Axis, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Students have issued a loud appeal to the head of the Presidential Leadership Council, Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi, urging him to personally oversee the removal of “the last armed man from the occupied buildings.”

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But the question echoing through the streets of Taiz remains: why does the military axis refuse to vacate educational facilities despite repeated government orders?

Activists point out the paradox: the military axis, which reportedly earns billions of rials annually, refuses to build a permanent headquarters, choosing instead to remain entrenched in schools.

Observers believe that this continued occupation stems from the military leadership’s fear of exposing the full extent of the “scandal.”

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They explain that a withdrawal would uncover the widespread looting and destruction that have affected modern equipment and educational workshops over the years.

The issue extends beyond Al-Hasb Institute. The military axis continues to occupy three major facilities in the city center: the technical education buildings in Al-Hasb, the Saba School (formerly Balqis), and the National Tobacco and Sulfur Company.

According to experts, the latter alone could have generated around 20 billion rials annually for the state treasury if operations had resumed.

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Even more concerning, educational sources confirm that this Brotherhood-led occupation has derailed major rehabilitation and aid projects offered by allied nations—initiatives that could have revived vocational institutes and provided opportunities for thousands of deprived students.

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