According to a report published by Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection, Yemeni-based human rights organizations, there have been an estimated 124 children have been kidnapped over the past year. This new data was made public at a press conference in Sana’a earlier last week.
Faced with an aggravated terror related security situation and political instability, Yemen coalition government will have now to address this additional threat its officials are to return law and order to the impoverished nation.
As the depth and reach of Yemen’s overlapping crises continues to unravel, showing more layers and depth at every turn, it has become increasingly clear that officials will need to drastically change their approach should they hope to turn the tide.
Unless people are made to feel safe, it is difficult to imagine how Yemen could ever master any form of economic or political recovery.
In its annual report Seyaj confirmed that according to its observations, “the deteriorating security situation since 2011 has contributed to the increase in child-abduction cases in Yemen.”
According to the collected data about 30% of all abductions of children have taken place in the capital, Sana’a and Taiz, Yemen’ second most populous city.
Ahmed al-Qurishi, Seyaj director warned that unless the government showed some willingness to act against the perpetrators of such crimes, Yemen’s children-abduction crisis will only worsen. Al-Qurishi actually slammed the government for “doing little to protect children”. He complained that rather than attempt to punish kidnapper by hunting them down officials too often chose to negotiate, thus playing in the hands of criminals.
Moreover, he added that by allowing tribes to settle such disputes outside the laws, official essentially “enable kidnappers to go unpunished.”
When children are not used for ransom they often end up being in the hands of human traffickers, condemned to work as beggars in neighbouring Saudi Arabia or worse.
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