Houthi movement militarizing Yemeni society, recruiting child soldiers: expert
Researcher Ibrahim Jalal says the Houthis are militarizing all aspects of life in Yemen and have recruited hundreds of thousands of children.
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AIRegional security expert Ibrahim Jalal has said that the Houthi movement is working to militarize every aspect of life in Yemen.
Speaking in an interview with Al Hadath radio, Jalal added that the Houthis have recruited hundreds of thousands of children through systematic programs that begin in schools and extend to mosques, summer camps, and indoctrination centers designed to brainwash them.
He continued, noting that the first ranks on Houthi frontlines are filled with hundreds of children, subjecting them to severe attrition and exposing Yemeni children to death and destruction.
The recruitment of children by Houthi militias in Yemen is part of a series of human rights violations in areas under their control, in clear breach of all international laws. The group exploits children based on sectarian grounds.
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