Displaced Yemenis protest against Houthi violations

Yemenis hold placards during a protest to demand Iran-backed Houthis to be listed as a ” terror organization” at a stadium in Taiz, Yemen on 13 December 2020. [Abdulnasser Alseddik – Anadolu Agency]

Dozens of internally displaced people in Yemen’s Marib governorate organised a sit-in yesterday to denounce the “brutal and continuous crimes committed by the Houthi militia” against them and demanding an end to the group’s violations, Anadolu reported.

The displaced Yemenis from the Sweida camp demanded the Houthis stop attacking them with missiles and booby-trapped planes, calling on the group to be prosecuted in local and international courts for committing war crimes in Marib, Taiz and other governorates.

The protesters appealed to the United Nations, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the international community to assume their humanitarian, legal and moral responsibilities towards the displaced and civilians of the Marib Governorate and to stop the killing, abuse and displacement they are subjected to.

Last Tuesday, the United Nations International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said more than 13,000 Yemenis had been displaced in January as a result of the conflict in Yemen.

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