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2021-09-20 Arabia
‘Houthi Massacre’ in Sanaa Sparks Rage in Yemen
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militias in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
on Saturday defied human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
and government warnings and executed nine civilians, including a minor, in the insurgency-held capital of Sanaa after accusing them of involvement in the assassination of Saleh al-Samad in April 2018.
That’s three years ago...
Samad, who held the post of president in the Houthi-controlled administration which runs most of northern Yemen, was killed in an air strike in the port city of Hodeidah on Yemen’s west coast.

The execution of the nine civilians from Hodeidah was described as a total war crime by the internationally recognized government and has sparked widespread outrage among human rights activists in the war-torn country.

Hundreds of activists took to social media against the Houthi move and accused the Iran-backed militia of striking fear among civilians in areas under its control by carrying out such actions.
Posted by Fred 2021-09-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
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