Reporting by Elias Mohamed
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians came to Yemen from Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and other cities hoping to find safe refuge far from the brutality of the Assad regime. As many of them said, they came with nothing but their Arab and Levantine identity.
Yemen was a favored destination as its people are known for their generosity and hospitality throughout the ages. For the Syrians who headed there since the start of the Syrian revolution, the Yemen they found differed radically as it is burdened with the dark and destructive injustice of militias. The militias in Yemen turned the country commonly known as “happy” Yemen into an unbearable hell, and for the militias those who are not with them are against them and deserve all and any punishment culminating in death.
-From Aleppo to Sanaa-
Yousef A., from the city of Aleppo came to Sanaa after the regime killed many people in Aleppo and caused the migration of many families. Yousef said to Zaman al-Wasl, “after the regime in Syria continued to kill civilians we found no refuge for us except in Yemen which my uncle used to tell us about as he worked here as a teacher in one of the Yemeni universities. He said that a Syrian citizen would like here like he is in his own country, and he always spoke to us about happy Yemen, and we came here to see that things are like Syria as Yemen today is no longer safe, and it is no longer happy as the militias have turned it into miserable Yemen.” Yousef continued, “although the Houthi militias do not touch as Syrians, but the crimes they are committing in Taiz, and Ma’rib, are no less brutal than the crimes of the oppressive regime in Syria.”
Omar from Idlib’s countryside, who preferred to not disclose his surname for fear of any measures the regime embassy in Sanaa may take against him, considered that “where ever Iran is there is destruction and ruin.” Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl he said, “The clerical tyrannical regime in Tehran were bothered by a Hadith from the Prophet (Allah blessed us in our Sham and our Yemen), so they tried to destroy both countries by supporting the most tyrannical of tyrants.”
Oum Taha, a Syrian citizen born in Yemen said, “there must be a proper Arab confrontation for the Iranian regime especially in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.” She continued, “Iran started destroying Iraq with its sectarian militias, and then Syria by supporting the regime militias and thugs, and then Yemen by supporting the Houthi militias who did a coup against the legitimate authority and turned Yemen from happy Yemen into miserable Yemen. They spread death in all parts of the country, as Iran spreads death via its militias in all parts of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.”
Syrians in Yemen say they are trying to live close together to decrease the effects of homesickness, they are careful to continuously keep in touch, and they wish for peace to return to their country and for Yemen to return to the way it was.
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