CCTV News:On March 26th, 2015, Saudi Arabia and other countries supporting the Hadi government in Yemen launched a military operation codenamed "Decisive Storm" against the Houthi armed forces in Yemen, and the conflict in Yemen escalated!
Yesterday, the fourth anniversary of the escalation of the conflict, Houthi armed forces held a commemorative event in the capital Sana ‘a — — The day before, the leader of Houthi armed forces, Abdul Malik Hussein, designated March 26th as "Resistance Day". He also warned that if Saudi Arabia and other countries continue to escalate the situation in Hodeidah, Houthi armed forces will attack targets in Saudi Arabia and other countries through drones and ballistic missiles.
The Hadi government in Yemen did not comment on the commemorative activities of the Houthi armed forces, but at the regular cabinet meeting held on the 26th, it once again affirmed the "correctness" of the "decisive storm" military action.
Over the past four years since the outbreak and escalation of the conflict in Yemen, a large number of unexploded bombs, shells and tens of thousands of man-made mines have spread all over Yemen. Peace talks are fruitless, the war continues to spread, and mines are encroaching on more and more people’s living space, forming one "life forbidden zone" after another.
A large number of mines and explosive devices are scattered all over the streets, roads and farmland in Yemen, and people are injured or even killed almost every day. "The whole family was killed by explosive remnants" and "civilian vehicles inadvertently detonated anti-tank mines", and so on. These tragedies are staged in Yemen almost every day. Children born with a lack of awareness of danger are the first victims of landmines.
In the past decades, Yemen has been committed to cleaning up mines and explosive devices left over from the war — — However, after the Yemen conflict broke out in 2014 and the conflict escalated in 2015, not only did these efforts go to waste, but all kinds of more powerful and secretive mines were buried in every corner.
It is understood that at present, a joint mine clearance team established by Yemeni government forces and several international organizations of the United Nations has begun to remove mines and explosive devices left over from the war — — However, the conflict is still going on, coupled with irregular mine-laying operations in wartime and the complex characteristics of new mines, which makes mine clearance difficult, and some mine-clearing players even paid the price of their lives.
Yemeni demining expert Akram Arica Lardy: "Every day, we can find new things from demining work, explosive devices hidden under the floor, and new mines that no one can think of. An explosive device hidden in a light switch, hidden under the floor, or even in a toilet water tank … … We had no idea that it was definitely not Yemenis who placed these mines and explosive devices. "
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