Torture of prisoners ... a Houthi war crime outside of Griffiths' concerns
English - Wednesday 30 September 2020 الساعة 09:17 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, is building many ambitions on the prisoner exchange agreement announced last Sunday, the most important of which is paving the way for a comprehensive political solution, while at the same time avoiding the war crimes of Iran's Houthi arm continuing against the Yemeni people, including that excessive brutality by torturing prisoners to death.
In the latest crime of this humanitarian file, which Griffiths is taking as a gateway to market his success to the international community, the Houthi militia handed over the captive Muhammad Muhammad Ahmad Al-Sabari to his family, a lifeless body with traces of brutal torture, a torn and burnt body with traces of holes and electric shock.
The young al-Sabari (23 years) belongs to the Foreign Directorate of Al-Hima, Sana'a Governorate, and holds a high school diploma. He joined the ranks of the army in 2015 after the Houthi coup invaded the cities of Yemen. Peace envoy to a crime-laundering employee.
Al-Sabari was a soldier in the 141st Infantry Brigade of the Sixth Military District, and during his participation in the military confrontations on the Nehm Front, east of Sanaa, in March 2019 AD, his family was the Houthi militia.
Confirmed sources told "NewsYemen" that the Houthi militia disappeared Al-Sabari in the National Security Agency in Sana'a and subjected him to systematic torture in an attempt to obtain military information, and he blatantly violates international law and the four Geneva Conventions in the investigation and torture of the prisoner of war.
After only 4 months, al-Sabari had turned into a dead body under torture, and the Houthis informed his family that his body was in the mortuary of the 48th Hospital in Sanaa, and that they were ready to hand it over, provided that guarantees were brought to an urgent burial without the knowledge of any human rights organizations.
Al-Sabari's family reluctantly agreed, but the Houthis had abandoned their obligations to hand over his body for more than a year, fearing the brutal torture scandal that was clearly visible on the victim's body would be exposed.
On September 14 of this year, and through local mediation between the Houthi militia and government forces in Al-Jawf, Al-Sabari's body was released and his body was handed over to his family.
Al-Sabari was subjected to torture with whips, sticks, and electric shocks using a drill machine, which tore his entire body without mercy.
The crime of Al-Sabari appeared to the public opinion coinciding with the conclusion of the prisoner agreement between the government and the Houthis in Switzerland, as the first message to Iran's arm to the UN envoy that the play of his agreement was in the wind.
A play that angered Yemeni activists who considered Griffiths' celebration exaggerated, and that the ambition to reach what he describes as a "joint declaration" in front of Houthi obstacles that will not end, and compared to what he achieved while avoiding the interest in torturing prisoners and detainees to death, it appears that what he has achieved in this file is not equivalent to 10% of what local mediators have achieved since the outbreak of the war in September 2014.
