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Mayyon Organization for Human Rights and Development launched its first human rights report on the victims of child recruitment in Yemen, entitled (Children..No guns) which is the first of its human rights reports, including important information, shocking numbers and statistics, including names, photos and videos of the child soldiers who were killed during the first half of the year. The year 2021 AD shows the extent of violations against children in Yemen.
Mayon Organization revealed in the first reports of its field activities that (640) Yemeni children were killed, during the first six months of this year 2021 AD, their ages ranged between (13 17 years), who were recruited by the Houthi group, including a number of (13) Children in the so called war flags, all of whom were publicly buried in processions and broadcast through the official media, after they were thrown to the battlefronts, in flagrant violation of international conventions, national laws, obligations and commitments, and in a clear rejection of international calls that repeatedly demand the parties to the conflict. Immediately stop the recruitment of children in Yemen.
Mayyon Organization sounded alarm bells by identifying the affected Yemeni governorates with the number of victims of child soldiers. According to field data and information, the governorates of Sana a, Dhamar and Hajjah topped the list with the death of (333) children during the first six months of the current year 2021 AD, out of a total of (15) governorates covered Monitoring operations, in contrast to the dead, whose names have not been announced, while the number of wounded is estimated to be 3400 children, according to information from hospitals in the capital and the governorates under the control of the group and the so-called institution for the care of the wounded, which indicates a horrific massacre against children in these governorates, especially and in Yemen in general. ..
Meanwhile, a decrease in the number of child soldiers’ victims from Saada governorate was observed, to the sixth rank compared to child victims in 2020.
The report included a list of the names of the most prominent leaders of the Houthi group involved in recruiting children. The organization documented, through a field monitoring team in the capital Sana’a and the governorates under their control, the involvement of 125 leaders in child recruitment, led by Yahya Badr al Din al Houthi, Muhammad Ali al Houthi and Muhammad Badr al Din al-Houthi, Abd al Karim Amir al Din al Houthi, Abd al Majid al Houthi, Ahmed Dirham al Muaydi, Ahmad Muhammad Hamid, Abdo al Muhsin al Tawoos, and Dhaif Allah, a painter.
The organization also revealed the names of 22 parties involved in the recruitment of children in Houthi controlled areas.
The Mayon Organization also documented that the Houthi group awarded military ranks between colonel and second lieutenant to 155 children, out of the total number of victims killed during the first six months of this year.
The report indicated that the Houthis are recruiting children, cultural courses, schools and institutes, mosques, summer centers, orphanages and kidnappings, as well as the requirement of the Supreme Council for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation to provide humanitarian aid to those eligible in exchange for the recruitment of their children.
The report indicated that the Houthis are forcing children to carry out tasks such as direct combat, transporting supplies and gathering information, planting mines, driving cars and motorcycles, building fortifications and trenches, escorting leaders and supervisors, as well as working at checkpoints. They were killed or captured, and injured with permanent disabilities.
In addition, Abdo Ali Al Hudhaifi, head of Mayyun Organization for Rights and Development, confirmed that Yemeni children are the weakest segment of society, and therefore they are paying a heavy price as a result of the continuation of the war.
He said that family disintegration, school dropouts, the spread of child labor and other phenomena - unfortunately are no longer the most dangerous for children in Yemen, but that the war has become a fertile environment for committing the most heinous violations against them.
He pointed out that the report included many recommendations calling for more pressure from the international community on the Yemeni parties violating childrens rights, as well as a recommendation to refer the file of child recruitment to the International Criminal Court.
