Armies of Liberation

The Yemeni Observatory for Human Rights calls for urgent intervention to prevent Yahya Saleh from storming its head quarters in Sanaa, http://bit.ly/qaaZB2 (ar). The Sana’a regime in Yemen, getting closer to a long overdue war crimes trial in the ICC, is attacking the keepers of the evidence; HOOD’s library of human rights abuses was previously burnt to the ground. Idiot Saleh fails to realize that the state’s conduct of the Saada war in and of itself is enough to convict him of collective punishment; the repetitive lethal attacks on southern protesters (2007-2011) are also crimes against humanity. The 500+ protesters killed by state security forces since February are a third and separate range of crimes.

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I’m reposting my article from March 3 on this topic below the fold because I couldn’t remember where the first mass grave was: on the eastern edge of the Salahu Deen military camp near little Aden. Apparently the government of Yemen is repeating the practice in Sanaa, stealing corpses in an effort to reduce the known number of fatalities. The following is an article published today at al Sahwa:

Sahwa Net, Sana’a – Medical sources at the Military Hospital in Sana’a have revealed that dozens of corpses of protesters who were killed by security forces were hidden by the Yemeni authorities in unknown places in an attempt to conceal evidence of crimes committed against peaceful demonstrators.

The sources affirmed that the Central Security and the Republican Guard kidnapped dozens of the killed and wounded persons and escaped them.
(Read on …)

I was never more happy to be duped than on this story. Original post here. As it stands, it is unclear if the boy was raped and the case is before the courts and he is confirmed alive.

Hood: There is no evidence on the death of the child Aublj Omar, accused of raping in prison, Moses Alnmrani

The Organization of HUD that it has signed a victim of inaccurate information from the child’s mother Omar Baublj, which said the organization he had died en route to Sana’a, but most of the information obtained by the organization asserts that the child is alive and that he did not die and that his mother were not on the road to Sanaa for treatment according to the agreement With the organization in terms of origin. (Read on …)

Without the testimony of the person who provided them to Marib Press, its hard to authenticate. But there are anecdotal reports by eyewitnesses who saw weapons being given out from cars.

Yemeni officials deny press report on distributing weapons
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Deputy Prime Minister for Defense Affairs Rashad al-Alimi and Minister of State for Parliamentary and Shura Council Affairs Ahmed al-Kuhlani have expressed regret about a forged document spread by Marebpress website that they were involved in distributing weapons to pro-government people. (Read on …)

Update: retracted by HOOD. I was never more happy to be duped. The issue of the rape is before the court and the boy is not dead.

A truly horrendous crime. There’s no immunity under God or man for crimes like this. Six year old Omar’s mother gave testimony, despite many threats, to the prosecutor after she witnessed the Central Security murder 13 year old Rami Salem Barmeel in Haramout March 12. This statement was issued May 1.

Seyaj and Hood organizations are condemning the rape to death crime against a child because of a testimony against Security personnel accused of killing another child in Hadhramout

Statement of condemnation

Seyaj organization for childhood protection and Hood organization for defending rights and freedom condemn the rape crime to death against the child ( Omar. J.S 6 years old) due to a testimony of his mother against members of the Central Security who fired intentionally on a peaceful protest resulted the death of a participated child in the protest.

The mother reported to the two organizations that she was the only witness against the Central Security who fired a peaceful march for Omar Al-Mokhtar school in “Foah” , Al-Mukalla in Hadhramout at March 12th 2011, causing the death of Rami Salem Barmeel, 13 years old. (Read on …)

Also the Yemen Post reports, “Head of the preparatory committee for national dialogue, Muhammad Salim BaSondwa, said he had received death threats from an unknown person. He told the News Yemen that a message had been sent to him via his cell phone that read: ”don’t believe the kids who are playing with your mind. No sheikh or a master will help you if we put you in the red list.”

And another from al Masdar: Received a colleague, the journalist Mohammed Abdu al-Absi threatened to telephone messages numbers 733000000, 736000000. وقال الزميل العبسي “إن الرقم الأول يعود لرجل الأعمال شاهر عبد الحق والأخر مسجل باسم نجله وائل عبد الحق، وإن التهديدات جاءت على خلفية إصداره بيان إدانة ونفي لإقحام أبناء منطقة الأعبوس في موضوع زيارة شاهر عبد الحق إلى ليبيا”. The colleague, al-Absi “The first number back to the businessman Shaher Abdul Haq and the other is registered in the name of his son, Wael Abdul Haq, The threats came on the back released a statement condemning the denial to involve living in a region Aloabbos on the subject visit Shaher Abdul Haq to Libya.”

Amnesty International has today urged the Yemeni authorities to ensure the safety of a prominent human rights activist after she was warned anonymously for allegedly passing information to the UN Security Council.

Amal Basha, chairperson of the Sisters Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR), received a telephone warning via her office this morning telling her not to leave her home and to take extra precautions. (Read on …)

Yemen blocked medical supplies and arrested doctors throughout the Saada Wars (2004-2010) as policy. It was horrendous, especially as the state was bombing residential civilian areas, villages and cities.

Violence escalates in Yemen: Two protesters are shot dead and others injured

By: Nisreen Shadad, hoodonline, edited by: Jane Novak

The National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms, (HOOD), has been informed about the attack against the demonstrators on February 22, 2011, close to Sana’a University. Two protesters died and about eighteen are injured.
(Read on …)