Syrian model for liberating the disappeared

Yemenis have been following with admiration and great enthusiasm the progress of the Syrian revolutionaries in the past ten days after lean years of destruction, wars, killing, torture and displacement at the hands of Iranian militias. The climax of the follow-up was the scenes of the liberation of detainees from the basements and cells of the bloody Assad regime’s prisons in Sednaya, Adra, Palestine Branch and Al-Khatib.

The victory of the revolutionaries in Syria after 13 years of resistance opens up great hope for Yemenis who are under the rule of the Houthis, the Yemeni version of the criminal Assad regime, and are eager for the day of liberation from Houthi control. So far, the Houthis do not seem to understand the lesson well.

The scene of storming prisons in Syria tells the Yemenis held hostage by the Houthis in their homes or in their prisons that a single popular uprising by them in large numbers to the prisons is a decisive step to free them, before they become unidentified dead buried by the Red Cross.

Liberating prisoners and kidnapped people is one of the noblest and greatest deeds. It is like bringing the dead back to life, literally and figuratively, for people whose souls were destroyed by the Houthis, Assad, and Iran.

Large-scale tribal movements and the people and neighborhoods of the popular can work immediately to release their sons by organizing large protests near the dense Houthi detention centers, in the official, private and secret sections and prisons. This is one of the most important actions that lead to the development of the stages of the popular struggle and make it blend with the national conscience.

According to statistics from the Association of Mothers of Abductees in 2018, the Houthi militia built no less than 500 new prisons, renovated prisons, and expanded others in a number of governorates, especially Saada, Sana’a, and Ibb.

The Houthi militia does not have a hierarchical structure or institution that makes it difficult to defect from it, unlike Assad, from whom no one defected despite seeing defeat before their eyes in the field and everywhere. This makes it easier for the Yemenis to free their sons from the Houthi prisons with easier effort compared to the Syrians, before they lose their selves.

The prison liberation operation in Syria has proven that there is no way to liberate them except through a broad popular uprising to storm the prisons, especially since most of the kidnappings and arrests, as happened last September, are not provided by the Houthis with any legal framework of their own or anyone else’s making, which means that it is a clear expression of the criminality, psychological and moral disorder, and savagery of the Houthis, as it was with the Assad regime.