In conjunction with the inauguration of the Houthi Group, large polarization campaigns for children and young people at its summer camps for this year, the phenomenon of the disappearance of teenagers has returned to the foreground in a governmental of Dhamar, which is controlled by the group, between human rights and the concerns of the community concern the escapelation of the phenomenon and the coverage for the intake of forces.
Local sources have reported to Asharq al -Awsat that the Governorate has witnessed in the last few days the recording of at least eight sudden disappearances of children and young people aged between 10 and 20, in the city of Dhamar and a certain number of close directions, without their families being able to know their destiny or parts behind their disappearance.
Human rights activists in the Governorate of Dhamar believe that the escalation of the disappearance during the recent period is not a question of passage, but rather a dangerous indication of the organizational hiring operations practiced by the Houthi group against minors, in the framework of what they call “summer camps”. They underlined that the underway year witnessed an unprecedented escalation in the rapture of crimes, most of his victims, boys and adolescents.
The jurists stressed that the Houthi group tries, through these fields, to wash the brain of children and teenagers with extremist ideas and teach them sectarian concepts, in preparation to send them to the fronts to fight under religious and political slogans, including “Palestine victory”.
Painful facts
Among the latest disappearances documented by local sources, the kidnapping of the child Akram Saleh at -i from the center of Dhamar two days ago and its destiny is still unknown. The city also witnessed the accident of the child’s disappearance, that God protects him (13 years old) while he was leaving his home, without his family succeeding so far to find him despite his intensive research.
The disappearance of a three -year -old boy was also recorded, as well as another mysterious accident of the disappearance of five brothers of a family, all under puberty, while spending Eid al -fitr’s holiday on the outskirts of the city.
Ocular witnesses confirmed that the five children: Abdul Razzaq, Hail, Hana, Milions and Jana, disappeared on April (April) without any trace, while the family effects of the family have not led to any result.
ASHARQ residents al -awsat spoke of the growing phenomenon, accusing the Houthi group of using disappearances as a means of political and social extortion and imposing the reality of recruiting force.
One of the residents, called Khairi, said that the Governorate turned during the last period in an “open square” to kidnap the teenagers, accusing Houthi’s leaders of being behind the disappearance, especially after the parents refused to send their children to the fields.
Khairi added that Houthi are trying to transform children into “human shields” in the face of American strikes and to invest later in the political and humanitarian discourse, observing that dozens of young people have been kidnapped by different areas of Bhasar and have been subjected to intellectual and military mobilization without the knowledge or approval of their families.
The leader of Houthi, Mohammed al -bakhiti, appointed governor of Dhamar, has pushed hundreds of recruits in recent years, most of whom are children, marginalized and African refugees, to the fighting lines through the group’s military patrols.
Activists warn that the continuation of this policy endangers life to thousands of children and young men and threatens the social fabric of the Darhar Governorate, who rejects the vast majority of its inhabitants, pushing their children into wars who have nothing to do with them.
