Yemen Tatars - Houthis destroy monuments and burn historical books
Few years ago, Yemen was prosperous, but the
crises, chaos, political unrest and lack of security, have turned it into
sadness and destruction.
This happened only after the Houthis committed
coup d'état on the legitimate government in Yemen in 2014. Since then, Yemen
became a weak state under the control of an Iranian-funded armed group, which
destroyed its past and looted its history and demolished its present.
In recent weeks, Reuters has published a
documentary showing the violations that Houthi committed against the history
and monuments of Yemen. The documentary said that about 6,000 archeological
houses built in mud bricks in Sana'a dating and dated back to the eleventh
century, were completely destroyed by Houthis.
According to Al-Yemen Al-Youm newspaper,
Houthis began war with the Salafis in Dammaj village in the province of Saada
in northern Yemen in 2014, targeting historic mosques in all governorates, most
notably the mosque “Al-Omari”, located in the province of “Ibb”, which is one
of the historical mosques in this area and dated back to the era of Omar ibn
al-Khattab, a senior companion of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
The Houthi group not only planted explosive
devices in the vicinity of the mosque “Dar al-Hadith” in Saada during the war
with the Salafists, but also took all of its contents even the windows and
doors and mattresses and food. They documented their crime by videographers
belonging to Iranian al-Alam channel and al-Manar, a Lebanese channel
affiliated to Hezbollah, according to the Yemeni newspaper Al-Yemen Al-Youm.
Houthi also sought to destroy the provinces of
Lahj and Hadhramout. In early 2015, Houthi elements demolished a large number
of historic houses dating back to the first years of the Prophet Muhammad's
migration, according to Yemeni official TV.
Even the historical Yemeni books did not
survive the Houthi attacks. On January 11, 2016, the group shelled the Al-Said
Foundation, one of the most important cultural institutions in Yemen, and
caused the burning of thousands of books, papers and historical documents,
according to Al-Yamen Al-Youm.
According to the same newspaper, on February
3, 2016, the Houthi group bombed the National Museum building in Taiz province.
Ancient manuscripts dating back hundreds of years, and a large number of rare
historical military documents, were burned in the bombing.
The groups also destroyed 12 archaeological
sites, occupied them and converted most of them to military points belonging to
their militias.
