Al-Houthi immortalizes his dead with more graves and pictures
English - Saturday 17 December 2022 الساعة 03:35 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, exclusive:
The Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, has been reviving what has come to be known as Martyr's Week, which is one of the events that the militias have created in their areas of control, in order to promote the culture of death, and to continue mobilizing more fighters among citizens and students of schools and universities and sending them to the battle fronts.
With the advent of December, Houthi militia leaders are mobilizing through Houthi supervisors, in order to collect royalties and levies from companies, merchants, and government revenue facilities, under the cover of financing this week's events, in which the Houthis glorify their dead, and demand citizens for more sacrifices in favor of their sectarian project inspired by the Iranian approach.
The establishment of the "Houthi Martyr's Week" simulates the same event that the Lebanese "Hezbollah" organization holds annually. Among the aspects of the celebration are the holding of events and the opening of more cemeteries, under the pretext of remembering the dead and their sacrifices.
During the past days, the prominent Houthi leaders opened a number of photo exhibitions that were organized in some public schools and universities, to brag about the number of deaths that doubles every year, and to promote the project of death that they carry for the Yemeni people since their invasion of Sana'a and some Yemeni governorates.
The prominent leader, Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, chose the governorate of Ibb, in central Yemen, to open an exhibition of pictures of the deceived dead from the governorate, and demanded that the people of Ibb make more sacrifices and present convoys of the dead. The Houthi leader added that the holding of these exhibitions is the greatest form of loyalty to their dead.
The revival of the "Martyr's Week" by al-Houthi came in light of the difficult conditions experienced by the families of the dead, whose pictures were hung on the walls of schools, universities, halls, and on the main streets. Most families have lost their breadwinner and find it very difficult to provide for their basic needs after abandoning them after burying the bodies of their loved ones.
The Houthi militia has established a private foundation called the "Martyrs Foundation" in order to collect compulsory donations from government revenue facilities, private companies, businessmen, merchants, citizens, and school and university students. This institution is run by prominent Houthi leaders and supervises the holding of exhibitions and events this week.
Sources told "NewsYemen": The Houthi Martyrs Foundation sends its supervisors to many government and private institutions and sectors, and even to shops in order to collect compulsory donations to commemorate the "Martyr's Week," explaining that the money collected in millions of riyals is used to hold mock exhibitions and revive Promotional activities and provision of aid only to the families of their dead, known as the "martyrs of Ahl al-Bayt", while the rest of the families of the dead are deprived.
The sources confirmed that the Houthi militia is exploiting their dead for malicious purposes, most notably the collection of money from merchants under the holding of annual celebrations, and also to deceive more youth and children and push them to go to death camps for the sake of the Iranian project in Yemen.
The Houthi militias focus on holding Martyr's Week activities inside educational facilities, where the holding of exhibitions is accompanied by the organization of sectarian lectures and seminars - supervised by clerics loyal to them - in order to promote the culture of terrorism and attract more fighters, mainly students.
The Houthi celebrations this week this year coincided with new statements made by the militias regarding the rise in the number of deaths that have fallen in their ranks since the outbreak of the war, to more than 90,000 fighters, a number according to observers that is much lower than the number of deaths that the militias have thrown into the death crematoriums they have been running for years.
The Undersecretary of the Yemeni Ministry of Information, Osama Al-Sharmi, confirmed that the Houthi militia's announcement of the killing of 90,000 of its members is very terrifying, and reveals that the death toll is much more than what is announced. Pointing out that the emergence of all these victims reveals the extent to which the Houthi militia exploits the people of the areas under their control and how the war is conducted by them without caring about the number of victims who fall.
Al-Sharmi stressed that the Houthi militia and their project perpetuate the culture of death in Yemen, and do not carry the project of life or delinquency for peace.
In return for holding photo exhibitions, the Houthi militia is opening and preparing more cemeteries this week in the various Yemeni governorates under its control, and is devoting millions of riyals to these projects from the levies that they took by force of arms from merchants, shop owners and private companies.
The sources revealed that the Houthi militia allocated this year, as a first stage, more than 75 billion riyals to spend on preparing more than 28 new cemeteries for its dead in 12 areas under its control, and to spend on its annual celebrations of what it calls "Martyr's Week."
