After the reluctance of the tribes, the Houthi militia intensified its recruitment campaigns for schoolchildren
English - Thursday 18 March 2021 الساعة 09:23 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Jalal Muhammad:
The Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, uses all methods of enticement and smuggling to attract and mobilize fighters to its ranks, as well as pouring money on the "slavers" of tribal sheikhs and supervisors who recruit children, young people and the poor to their battles against the Yemenis.
In order to obtain the largest number of fighters to fill the vacuum and the severe shortage due to the bleeding it suffers on more than one front, the Houthi militia used "food" and exploited the needs of the poorest families in the areas under its control, by giving them stolen food baskets from the aid of international organizations, and sums Low finances in return for sending her children to fight in its ranks.
The militia has also been active, through the tribal sheikh loyal to it, "Haneen Qatina", who heads the Department of Tribal Affairs, in mobilizing fighters in a number of governorates and inviting sheikhs, sages and cultural supervisors to participate in the mobilization of what they call the battle of dignity and national liberation, in exchange for sums of money for each "person" who can Attracting him, and an official memorandum issued by the Tribal Affairs Authority showed that they are committed to paying an amount (70,000 Yemeni riyals) distributed according to the document stating that Qatina received an amount of 250 million riyals from Mahdi Al-Mashat as a first payment in order to buy the loyalty of the sheikhs to pay more fighters. An amount of 70 thousand riyals was allocated, so that 20 thousand would be given to the Sheikh and 50 thousand to the family of the fighter who was paid to the front.
The document stated that 50,000 would be handed over to the family of the fighter after his arrival at the front, and 20,000 of the Sheikh’s fees, who hand them over to the family of the fighter, and submitted statements indicating the name of the person who had been mobilized, the date, the signature of the head of the family or his representative and his fingerprint.
Schools are a fertile environment for mobilization
The militia, through its supervisors and affiliates in the educational corps and office and school district directors, turned schools into traps by luring teenage students, taking advantage of the poverty that Yemeni families suffer from as they seize the salaries of employees.
With the Mareb front on fire, Houthi supervisors flock to the "Kuwait High School" in the Capital Sana'a to deliver mobilizing speeches in the morning queue, as well as in every classroom urging them to win the Houthi militia project as it is a divine approach, as it claims.
In interviews with "NewsYemen", a number of students confirmed that the leaders of the Houthi militia failed to persuade them even to perform the cry, except for a small group of students loyal to the militia sect, or those who are in poverty and destitution.
In the context, Student narrated the story of his friend, whose father agreed to be recruited into the militia ranks after they promised the father that it was just a "cultural and military course" for one week, and that the place prepared for this session was very safe, but he (the father) was surprised days later with the news of his son's death. In Marib Governorate, where he was sent, along with dozens of people, to the fire lines without receiving any combat training or using weapons.
The Houthi militia often uses complex patterns to forcibly recruit children and throw them into hostilities in the various areas it controls in Yemen, killing and wounding thousands of them, and reports indicate that, during the past three years, the Houthi militia has opened 52 training camps for thousands of teenagers and children, It also deliberately enrolled children in ideological programs - revolving around the militia’s ideology and ideology - in addition to throwing them on the battle fronts, where they were entrusted with carrying out direct engagement tasks, planting mines and guarding military points.
