The Houthis threaten Yemeni families in the villages and areas under its control to force them to allow the recruitment of their children, including children in displaced camps and orphanages. After that, they are sent to battlefronts to participate in direct clashes, laying mines and guarding military points. The methods the Houthis use to recruit children include ideological programs before sending them to training camps to attend a one-month military course. The group opened 52 training camps for thousands of adolescents and children in Saada, Sanaa, Al Mahwit, Hodeidah, Tihama, Hajjah and Dhamar, targeting children 10 years old or above. The report indicated that during the past three years (2018, 2019, 2020) the Houthis began an open and compulsory campaign to recruit children. The group uses an education system that incites violence and teaches the group’s ideology through special lectures inside the official educational facilities to fill students with extremist ideas and encourage them to join the fight to support the group's military actions. The report, entitled “Militarizing Childhood”, highlighted the Houthis’ use of schools and educational facilities to lure children to recruitment. The report documented the names of 111 children who were killed during the battles between July and August 2020 only.
Many children killed, as a result, and hundreds were injured.
The report stated that the Houthis use complex patterns to forcibly recruit children and put them in hostile areas under its control in Yemen. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and the SAM for Rights and Liberties said in a report that the Houthis have forcibly recruited 10,300 children in Yemen since 2014, warning of dangerous consequences failing to address this phenomenon might cause.
0 kommentar(er)
