Horrific violations… Houthi crimes on international waters and 18 Yemeni governorates
The Houthi crimes continue to target civilians day and night, both internally and externally. It has even continued to target civilians in order to kill thousands of Yemenis or to target innocent people in neighboring countries.
504 maritime war crimes
In recent years, the Houthi crimes have been notorious war crimes, as a recent Yemeni human rights report has documented how Houthi militias have committed around 504 terrorist crimes against maritime shipping off Yemen, in violations amounting to war crimes.
The Yemeni human rights report issued by the National Forum for Human Rights in Yemen reveals a series of crimes committed by terrorist militia loyal to Iran. Houthi committed about 5091 humanitarian crimes against unarmed civilians in 18 governorates in Yemen, ranging from enforced disappearances to arrests and torture.
The international community and local and international human rights organizations are witnessing how the Houthi have turned Yemen’s cities into bloodbaths since 2014, targeting residential neighborhoods with Iranian-supplied ballistic missile strikes and sending tens of thousands of members of the terrorist group and children into war incinerators.
Hijacking of the ship rawabi
Security reports also point to increasing acts of piracy committed by the Houthis in the Red Sea, the most recent of which was the hijacking of the civilian ship rawabi, which bears the UAE flag, on January 5, in an act of aggression by the terrorist militia targeting neighboring countries.
Maritime crime and piracy
The report, which was issued by the National Forum for Human Rights in Yemen, shows that during seven years of Houthi control of Sanaa, commercial ships in the Red Sea are subjected to continuous terrorist attacks, which threaten 13% of the volume of international trade traffic annually, opposite the areas controlled by the putschists, according to estimates attributed to official data.
The report also documents thousands of crimes committed during militia activity in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden.
According to the human rights report, the Houthis have committed a series of violations amounting to war crimes in contravention of international law, domestic laws, and international conventions and treaties ratified by Yemen.
504 maritime crimes
Houthi crimes in the Red Sea have amounted to some 504 violations, including 183 cases of targeting international commercial shipping and military ships, and 49 cases of Red Sea beaches being used for Iranian arms smuggling into Yemen.
The report also reveals that the Houthi militia targeted Yemeni and Saudi ports with 17 violations, planted 192 Houthi mines in the Red Sea, committed 63 attacks on fishermen and looted their property.
Terrorist militias had used the port of Hodeidah as a military base to launch their criminal operations in the Red Sea, where the militia used the ports of Ras Isa and As-Salif as training bases for their pirates, amid calls for international action to close the port of Hodeida and expel the Houthis, but to no avail.
Indeed, Iran has trained Houthi militias to be an arm in terrorizing any country against them, committing hijackings and disrupting international navigation, as well as providing mullahs with information about shipping routes and ship crossings.
Houthi corruption crimes
The legitimate Yemeni government asserts that the Houthi terrorist militias have looted army equipment, cash reserves and the public treasury, putting millions below the poverty and famine line.
Abuses in 18 Yemeni provinces
The report also monitored violations committed by militias against civilians in 18 Yemeni provinces in 2012, which resulted in a total of 5,091 crimes and affected 21 basic human rights.
The human rights report noted that these crimes ranged from murder, torture, abduction, arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance, to the laying of land and sea-based mines.
According to statistics, Taiz province was the first to report violations, followed by Shabwah, Sanaa, Marib, Hodeidah, Ibb, Aden and Saada; a stronghold of Houthi terrorists.
Egregious violations
Of these, 1,938 violations of the right to physical integrity are monitored in the report. The list includes 983 crimes of physical assault, 442 cases of arrest, enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention, as well as 153 crimes of torture and 17 incidents of abduction.
It came second in Houthi crimes against civilians in Yemen, violating the right to life; of these, some 998 were extrajudicial killings, 765 violations of the right to property and 521 violations of the right to housing against civilians.
The report also documents 229 cases of violation of freedom of movement and travel, 184 incidents of violation and 66 incidents of violation of the right to a fair trial.
Houthi militias have also committed 69 crimes against freedom of opinion and expression, and 63 especially freedom of assembly.
