Mwatana launches “Their Ramadan With Their Families” campaign
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Ramadhan comes again. As much as the families of thousands of Yemenis await it with lanterns and welcome, the disgraceful and immoral practices of the warring parties have deprived thousands of families of this opportunity.
Instead of Iftar tables and spiritual fasting rituals becoming a reunion occasion, these moments are distressing for the families of those arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared by this absurd conflict.
As for the last few years, this distress has turned into a nightmare, and it has added to the darkness and gloom of the underground prisons, real fears of these innocent victims being infected with Covid-19, which has become rampant, and threatens the lives of many.
The war has gone too long, so has the sufferance.
For those who believe that by detaining and abusing civilians, they are winning the goals of the war they made, we want to remind them here, that real victory comes through bringing back the joy and drawing smiles on the faces of children who are waiting, days and nights, for the moments of their reunion with their beloved relatives.
All arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared at all parties to the conflict in Yemen must be released. Their place should be among their families, not in the darkness of underground prisons.
With the beginning of Ramadan, Mwatana for Human Rights launches “Their Ramadan With Their Families”, to focus on the personal identity of each victim of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance, and to call on all conflict parties in Yemen to release all those men and women detained arbitrarily and disclose the fate of the forcibly disappeared.
