A human rights report documents 340 human rights violations by the terrorist Houthi militias in al-Baydha Governorate during the year 2023.

The fifth periodic report on human rights violations in al-Baydha Governorate for the year 2023, which was issued in a press conference on Monday, revealed the escalation of all forms of Houthi violations committed against citizens in the Governorate.

The announcement of these violations came a week after the militia committed the crime of bombing a number of houses in the city of Radaa on the heads of its residents, which resulted in the death of 12 citizens and the wounding of 18 others with various injuries, most of them children and women. One day after a 7-year-old child was killed in the same city by a militia supervisor, who justified his action by saying that the child had disturbed him while he was sleeping.

According to the report, acts of violence in the Governorate ranged from killing, injury, abducting, exploding homes, and assaulting public and private property.

The report monitored 39 cases of killing of civilians. 38% of the killings were of children, 44% of them were by live ammunition, and 41% were by land mines or remnants of war. 26% of the killings were in Radaa and al-Zahir districts, 97% of them were by the Houthis.

Cases of civilian casualties amounted to (31), 45% of which were children and women, while 45% of the infections were caused by mines and remnants of war.

Cases of arrest and kidnapping of civilians reached (154), and the total number of cases of attacks on private and public property amounted to (112) cases.

The human rights report stated that the Houthis blew up 461 homes in the governorate over nine years, 133 of which were completely destroyed and 328 were partially destroyed. The last of these was the bombing of two houses in the city of Radaa, where six other nearby houses were damaged and civilians were killed inside those houses.

The report made it clear that the Houthi militias continue to violate the rights of citizens without taking into consideration the constitution, law, and Yemeni custom, continuing to humiliate, oppress, and seize on a daily basis, in addition to continuing to collect taxes and plunder money without taking into consideration the poor living conditions that people suffer from.

The report revealed the continuation of campaigns to storm commercial and banking stores and confiscate the new local currency by the Houthi militia, in addition to empowering militia members and their loyalists to supervise residential neighborhoods and government and private institutions with the aim of monitoring and spying on citizens. The militia also continues to pursue citizens who carry modern communications devices and insists on searching them, looting them, and humiliating travelers at checkpoints.

The report indicated that the Houthi militia forced employees and teachers to attend cultural courses and put pressure on teachers to teach Houthi manuals, especially in some areas of the al-Sawmaa District in al-Baydha.

The report monitored cases of taking over mosques, replacing imams and preachers, spreading a culture of hatred and racism through education and guidance platforms, preventing charitable associations and institutions from operating and plundering their resources, and replacing Houthi elements from outside the governorate in Government positions instead of the people of the Governorate.

RASD Center called for the need to respect human rights in the Governorate and for international bodies and organizations to take action to put an end to these violations that have been ongoing for nine years against the people of al-Baydha Governorate.