Yemeni activists launched a massive campaign on social media highlighting the crimes of the Iran-backed Houthi group since its coup against the national consensus and invasion of Sanaa, on September 21, 2014, while calling on the international community to pursue the group’s leaders as “war criminals.” And not escape punishment.

The Yemeni activists recalled, through their accounts, thousands of violations committed by the group during the years of the coup, including murder, torture in prisons, kidnapping, child recruitment, exploitation of women, planting mines, restricting community freedom, plundering money, and confiscating property, as well as sectarianizing society, destroying government institutions, stealing aid, and starving them. The people.

In conjunction with the campaign, the Yemeni Minister of Information, Muammar Al-Eryani, said that it is time to uncover the crimes of the terrorist Houthi militia affiliated with Iran, which targeted Yemenis without exception, and spread sadness and pain in every home, and no one was spared from its injustice, oppression, and terrorism.

The Yemeni minister called for participation in the campaign, which began on Sunday, to monitor the names of Houthi leaders who committed what he described as “the most horrific crimes and violations, including murder, arrest, torture, displacement, looting, bombing homes, recruiting children, raping women, and planting mines.”

He described the campaign as not “documenting the crimes of the Houthi militia, but rather a step towards achieving justice and justice for the victims, and to tell the world that the rights of Yemenis will not be lost, and that the blood of innocent people will remain a witness until every criminal is held accountable,” as he put it.

Invitation to the international community

In an official statement, Al-Eryani called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities in redressing the victims and achieving justice and freedom for the Yemeni people, who he said “suffered oppression, torture and destruction practiced by the terrorist Houthi militia affiliated with Iran,” stressing that serious steps would be taken to pursue the group’s leaders as “war criminals.” », and hold all those who participated in committing these crimes accountable, and prosecute them before international courts.

He explained that his country has witnessed, since the Houthi militia’s coup, the worst types of crimes and violations against the population. It has affected all segments of society without exception, and cannot be ignored. Its perpetrators must be held accountable before international justice, and they must not be allowed to escape punishment.

Al-Eryani pointed out that his citizens were subjected to the worst forms of oppression, including killing, kidnapping, and torture, in addition to the forced displacement of millions of civilians, the bombing of homes, and the destruction of infrastructure, as schools, hospitals, and public facilities were not spared from destruction, in addition to the suffering of millions who he said “experienced The bitterness of poverty and hunger due to the siege imposed by the militia on cities, especially the city of Taiz.”

The Yemeni minister confirmed that the Houthi violations had affected women, and said that thousands of cases of kidnapping, forced disappearance, psychological and physical torture, harassment and sexual assault had been recorded, in addition to the forced recruitment of tens of thousands of children, and the planting of mines in populated areas, which led to Tens of thousands of innocent civilians were killed and injured.

Al-Eryani stressed that the Yemeni people will not forget their sacrifices, and the Houthis’ black record of horrific crimes and violations, which he said “represent a flagrant violation of all international laws,” starting with the Geneva Conventions and passing through human rights standards.

The Yemeni minister stressed that the people of his country will not give up their right to justice, and that the blood of innocent people that has been spilled will remain a witness to the brutality of the Houthis until retribution is achieved.