Saudi Crown Prince , the US Ask for Torturing Yemeni Women!
By: Yousra Abdulmalik
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) — a key part of the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, alon with the coalition have been kidnapping ,raping and recruiting women prisons in areas under its control in Yemen.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) forces has begun recruiting women in the Yemeni island of Socotra and sent them to Abu Dhabi to attend training courses.“Over 20 girls from Socotra traveled last Monday to the UAE, allegedly attending security, safety and rescue courses.
It expected that the number would reach more than 100 young women arriving in the UAE in the coming days in batches, noting that the second batch will travel on Thursday, and yet another group next week, whereas their stay in the UAE is expected to be extended for over four months.
Last October, sources indicated that the UAE had begun establishing the so-called Security Belt forces on the island of Socotra, similar to other Emirati-funded paid fighters units in southern Yemen.
Last November, the UAE forces recruited more than 70 women in Hadramout province, east of Yemen, whereas Mukalla city, the capital of Hadramout province, witnessed the graduation of the first batch of UAE paid fighters women in the presence of the representative of the Minister of the Interior of the coalition , Ahmed Balushi.
The UAE paid fighters women were subjected to a military training and rehabilitation by Emirati officers at Rayyan military base, whereas the first batch of women’s paid fighters will be distributed to the UAE military base at the airport in Rayyan, along with the elite paid fighters in a number of security points, as well as a number of police stations and control of public markets.
For 10 days, members of the paid fighters women’s received many methods of inspection and house raids.
Late in last June, International human rights organizations confirmed that the UAE secret prisons and detention centers in Southern of Yemen are full of women and children.
This came during a forum organized by International Center for Justice (GICJ) and the International Center for Justice and Human Rights at the UN Office in Geneva to discuss the human rights file on women in the UAE prisons in Yemen.
“After a long time, women detainees in the UAE prisons began talking about the violence and abuse they suffered,” Safwa Aissa, the Executive Director of the International Center for Justice and Human Rights said.
The UAE has secret prisons in Yemen and run by Emirati officials, she added, noting that the prisons included women and children.
“The UAE is trying to mute the various voices, through baseless allegations which are flagrant violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, Jalil Yilmaz, secretary general of GICJ Said.
“Unfortunately, the international community remains silent about this”, he added.
He stressed that they would continue their struggle at the United Nations Office in Geneva to defend the oppressed in the world, particularly in Palestine,( Myanmar’s Rakhine state) and in the Middle East.
The phenomenon of the abduction and raping women is repeated by the coalition , especially in areas under its control.
In March 2018, a Sudanese soldier , loyal to the coalition, on the outskirts of Khokha city “West Coast” raped a Tahami woman brutally, while she was collecting wood near Abu Musa al-Ash’ari camp.
Also, the coalition’s paid fighters kidnapped a group of women in Tuhaita district of Hodeidah province.The paid fighters took the women who were bringing water to their houses from a well, using the threat of weapons, and then taken them to an unknown area, while the paid fighters refused to reveal to the people about the abduction of women, or where the abductees are held.
Moreover,seven women were kidnapped and raped by coalition forces and their paid fighters in Hazm district ,al-Jawf province since the coalition managed to take control of it.
According to information obtained by YemenExtra, the coalition forces and their paid fighters who arrested the women in Jawf sent them to Marib province to be raped by Saudi and UAE officers under coercive coercion, as well as dozens of women in areas under the coalition’s control faced the same fate.
In August 4 , hundreds of Yemeni women taken into the streets of the capital, Sana’a, to denounce the coalition’s crimes.
They also chanted slogans in condemnation of the coalitionwar, which has claimed the lives of thousands of Yemenis over the past years.
In one of his speech in 2017,the leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movementSaudi troops are committing war crimes such as “raping women” .
“We will face all of the incursions on the ground. Our determination will never be dented,” Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi was quoted by al-Masirah .
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman threatened to target women and children in Yemen irrespective of international criticism over the coalition’s war against Yemen.
“Do not care about international criticism. We want to leave a big impact on the consciousness of Yemeni generations. We want their children, women and even their men to shiver whenever the name of Saudi Arabia is mentioned,” the Saudi crown prince purportedly said.
In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.
Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.