News - Yemen: The Dignity for Rights and Development Foundation launched its annual report on human rights crimes and violations in the occupied southern provinces for the year 2023. 

He emphasized that the figures and statistics included in the report are only a small part of the reality, and many crimes and violations have not been announced due to the fear of victims, witnesses, their families, and human rights defenders who might face arrest or killing by the occupation forces or their affiliated armed factions.

He explained that the report highlighted the crimes of the US-Saudi-UAE aggression in the southern provinces, including the implementation of assassinations and executions, extrajudicial killings, brutal slaughter, kidnapping of traveling citizens on roads or from their homes, their arrest, and detention in unknown places until the report was published.

For his part, Aden Governor Tariq Salam pointed out the tragedy and suffering that the citizens of the occupied southern provinces are experiencing as a result of the occupier's crimes and its terrorist tools. 

He noted that the occupier's practices were not limited to the economic and living aspects but focused on imposing a state of chaos, instability, spreading terror, and fear among the people of Aden and the occupied southern provinces deliberately.

The Deputy Minister of Human Rights, Ali Taysir, pointed out that the statistics and numbers included in the report expose the violations of the occupier and reflect the reality of the crimes committed by this enemy and its militias, and its persistence in killing, starving, and displacing the people of the southern provinces.

During the press conference, a documentary film was presented summarizing, with numbers, how the Emirati and Saudi enemy and its mercenaries managed the situation in southern Yemen in 2023 in its worst form. 

Suad Al-Waisi presented the annual report of the center, which documented 166 assassination operations resulting in the killing of 84 people. The report also recorded 34 deaths and 103 injuries of others who were near the targeted figures. The report explained that the assassination operations varied between direct killing, explosive devices, ambushes, kidnapping of citizens on roads or from their homes, arrest, and detention in unknown places until the report was published."

The report confirmed that armed groups, impersonating military and security entities, affiliated with factions established and managed by the countries of the Saudi-Emirati aggression alliance, have carried out forced displacement and deportation operations against many citizens, especially those from the northern provinces, and looted their properties.

The report addressed crimes of killing resulting from clashes between armed factions, documenting more than 139 clash operations, including 53 operations that led to the killing of 214 civilians and the injury of 164 others. 

It indicated that the center is still monitoring 86 clash operations, investigating the facts surrounding them, and documenting them. Most of these clashes occurred in cities, markets, roads, and populated areas, causing an increase in the number of casualties.

The report included more than 22 crimes resulting in the killing of nine citizens, the injury of 10 others, and the looting of their belongings (cars, money, gold, etc.). 

Regarding violations of international humanitarian law by the countries of the aggression alliance and the armed groups, such as kidnapping, arbitrary detention, the report stated that preliminary statistics confirm the kidnapping, arrest, and arbitrary detention of 350 citizens without any legal justification.

The report emphasized that the resulting reality of all these crimes clearly indicates that the countries of the aggression alliance and their armed factions have violated the provisions of international humanitarian law and the principles of human rights, according to the Hague Conventions and the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Optional Protocols.

It documented 175 cases of enforced disappearances, and many of the missing persons.

The report also highlighted four cases of rape, including children of both genders, and recorded over 75 looting operations that mostly targeted the properties of citizens, in addition to some public properties. Sixteen citizens, including two women, were killed, and 12 others were wounded during these operations as they resisted and defended themselves.

The report discussed crimes of raids and intrusions into citizens' homes, documenting 59 illegal raid and intrusion operations, resulting in the killing of six citizens and injuring 18 others who tried to defend themselves and prevent militias from invading their homes. 

It also documented more than 227 demolitions of homes, shops, and properties of citizens, including 200 commercial establishments.

Regarding torture in secret prisons, the report mentioned that there are about 18 secret prisons by the UAE and Saudi Arabia spread across various occupied southern provinces. 

The report called on various local and international media to shed more light on the various occupation crimes in the occupied southern regions.