Houthi militias forced a number of doctors from Sanaa University, the largest Yemeni university, to attend military courses in Bani Matar, west of Sanaa.

Pictures showed a number of doctors and teaching assistants at Sana’a University, during their participation in a military course, training in shooting and using the Kalashnikov weapon.

The military course came after sectarian courses for dozens of doctors and teaching assistants in a camp belonging to the group in the Bani Matar district, west of Sanaa.

The pictures show a number of doctors and employees of the College of Information, which the Houthi militia had previously appointed Omar Al-Bukhaiti as its dean, and Al-Bukhaiti appears at the forefront of the doctors participating in the military course.

The source quoted a doctor at the university as saying that one of his Houthi students forced him to attend the weapons course after he refused to attend because he was suffering from a slipped vertebrae. However, the students, through Houthi forces at the university (university security), forced him to go by force to attend the course. .

Another doctor added that he attended the course for fear of harm being caused to himself, or of having one of his children forcefully taken to the front lines. He said, “As for the cultural courses, they take the children without our permission or even our knowledge from the schools and universities, and we only feel when night comes and our children have not returned home.” Two weeks passed and they did not return until they had completed the cultural cycle (sectarian cycle).”