The Houthi rebel group announced Saturday as a holiday in areas under its control on the anniversary of its armed movement that controlled the capital Sanaa on September 21, 2014.
Since 2015, houthi rebels approved the day of September 21, as an official holiday, on the occasion of what they call a revolution And forcing citizens in their areas to celebrate it, even though their power is declining day by day due to battles with the government forces backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition.
On the other hand, bloggers, media and activists launched on Thursday a campaign on social networking sites to remember what they call “the catastrophe of 21 September”, a day in which the Huthi militias backed by forces of previous President Ali Abdullah Saleh invade the capital Sanaa in 2014.
Under the label of “21 September_catastrophe_of_Yemen”, activists posted thousands of tweets that recapture memories of the difficult days they experienced when the Houthis seized the capital Sana’a.
“Four black years have passed since houthi rebels took over the capital Sana’a and the succeeded their coup against the constitutional legitimacy and the national consensus represented by the National Dialogue,” Yemeni Information Minister Muammar al-Iryani said in a tweet. Adding: after the siege of the entrances of the capital and attacking government institutions under the excuses of confronting the price rises.
The writer and journalist Aref Abu Hatem said: “The only good thing for Abd al-Malik al-Houthi is that he threw his dirty rock in the pool of Yemen and drove out a thousand years old of garbage. We did not think that all those faces were covered with the mask of the republic and hide its racist Imami face, and we did not think that those who learned and benefited from the republican regime would stand Against him.
Abu Hatem pointed out that the cumulative awareness produced by the revolution of September 62 in the minds of two full generations will not be erased by a dark movement of Shiite elements with a sectarian and terrorism nature. “The darkness will disappear and the Republic, freedom and civil state will remain,” he concluded.
The prominent Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi said that the disaster of Yemen was the day the houthies entered Sanaa by treason. “Their goal was mated, the destruction of the republic and the oppression of the forces of change in Yemen, which wanted a new free and pluralistic right by the light of the youth revolution.” “Huthi is a project that does not belong to the era, an exclusionary project that will not be able to rule Yemen without force and oppression of others, which means continuous sedition,” Khashoggi said on his Twitter page.
Yemeni Ambassador to Washington Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak said that “Houthis is a pandemic epidemic invade Yemen and destroyed the state and caused corruption everywhere they reached. Despite the sacrifices and pain, it will disappear and Yemen will recover.”
Journalist Ghamdan al-Yusufi said that the September 21 was the day when the value of a Yemeni man was cheaper than the value of a bullet. “The Houthis called on all the criminals and enable them to tear us apart and instill hatred in every house.”
