New recruitment campaign for Houthis… details
Despite the United Nations truce declared in Yemen since last April, the Houthi terrorist militia continues its forced recruitment campaigns to mobilize more fighters to its ranks.
Pro-Iranian militias have launched a new recruitment drive called the “mobilization and general mobilization” campaign under the banner: “Blow away light and heavy,” Yemen News quoted private sources as saying.
The militia leadership has brought officials, parliamentarians, heads and members of local councils and directors of executive offices, sheiks and neighborhood elders in areas under its control to participate in the new recruitment campaign, which targets young people and children in Sanaa and areas under its control.
The sources noted that the militias formed field committees as part of the campaign to impose compulsory conscription by subjecting families to the forced recruitment of their children into the ranks of the Houthis, in exchange for promises of military numbering them and allocating salaries to them, in the exploitation of the difficult conditions of citizens due to the looting of their salaries for the seventh consecutive year.
Each neighborhood in Sanaa is forced to recruit about five fighters on a monthly basis.
Previously, the Houthis used so-called “summer camps” to spread their religious ideology and recruit boys for combat, and such camps were set up in schools and mosques across areas under their control in Yemen, especially northern and central Yemen and Sanaa.
A report published by the Associated Press in early June revealed that the Houthi group in Yemen “continues to recruit children as young as 10 years into the ranks of fighters” despite the truce declared by the United Nations.
