Committee orders refugees to head to camps; safe corridors made
The Source: Sabanews.net - 13/10/2009
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he Supreme Security Committee has called on the displaced from the clashes between the army and the Houthi rebels in the north to head for four camps it had allocated for them, saying safe corridors have been made.
Within the government's efforts and in response to calls for providing safe corridors for the refugees in Saada and Amran, the committee has urged the refugees in the Harf Sufyan district, Amran, to head to the Khaiwan Camp, the refugees in the districts of Razeh, Shada'a, Hidan and Ghamr, Saada, to head to the Almezraq Camp in the Almalaheedh district, a spokesman for the committee said. The committee also called on the refugees in the districts of Baqim, Qataber and Manbah, Saada, to head for the Alib Camp, and the refugees in the districts of Sahar and Saqain, Saada, to head for the Saada City and Sam and Ehsa'a Camps. He added the committee would provide the refugees with care, protection and aid to enable them to reach the camps. The spokesman, however, held the Houthi rebels responsible for blocking the refugees from going to the displaced camps, holding them and using them as human shields as well as planting landmines in the roads to block aid from reaching the affected. The insurgents, supported by Iran, have recently started to use the people as in Saada and Amran as human shield when military operations intensified against them. They also planted landmines in roads killing the people and blocking aid and relief agencies form reaching the affected by a sixth war that started in August. The Houthi followers, who seek to restore imamate rule, have been fighting the troops since 2004, but the battles within the recent war are deemed the fiercest and the deadliest for the rebels. Hundreds of rebels have been killed, wounded and arrested. Many others have surrendered to the army. Recently a former Houthi leader revealed that the rebels, stationing in Saada and some parts of neighboring Amran, had plans to expand to Hajja and Mareb. The leader also said that they received Iranian and Hezbollah material support and training. He talked about
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