6 years of blockade and systematic bombing .. "HRTIC" documents the massacres of Iran's arm in Taiz for the year 2020
English - Wednesday 24 February 2021 الساعة 04:35 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
The Human Rights Information and Rehabilitation Center (HRTIC) presented a written statement regarding the oral update of the Group of Experts on Yemen to the Human Rights Council, which began its sessions, on Monday, which included documenting massacres that occurred during the year 2020, committed by the Houthi militia, through direct bombardment of densely populated residential neighborhoods, which resulted in 28 civilians were killed, including 8 children and 8 women, and 33 civilians were wounded, including 7 women and 5 children.
The statement referred to the significant deterioration in the human rights situation that Yemen has witnessed over the past 6 years, and explained that the Taiz Governorate suffers from the continued targeting of civilians and their property directly by the Houthi militia, as the scene of bombing and military targeting of some public and private objects and properties and lands are repeated almost daily. Agricultural.
He added that the militia has been imposing collective sanctions and restrictions on the city for nearly six years in a row, by closing the entrances to the city and preventing the passage of goods, food, medicine, and citizens, including patients, to receive the necessary treatment for them in hospitals outside the city, which pushed them to take bumpy roads that doubled their suffering.
The statement also clarified the repeated acts of noise, firing of bullets and multiple clashes in the liberated areas of the Houthi militia by militants outside the framework of the state and members of the government army affiliated with multiple partisan or regional factions or unknown gunmen, which exacerbated the rates of deteriorating humanitarian conditions.
Looting, violence and clashes escalated, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, the injury of others, and damage to some private and public properties as a result of the use of firearms.
He recommended that the necessary measures be taken and that more efforts be made to release the detainees, as well as to reduce the cases of detention and enforced disappearance, and urged the effective presence of the group of eminent international and regional experts on Yemen, and to work with all parties.
It is worth noting that HRTIC is a non-governmental organization with a consultative status of the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations.
