Dubai: Dozens of Yemeni high school students in Sana’a attacked a senior member of the Al Houthi militia and sang the Yemeni anthem, a Yemeni website said on Monday.
“The students of Kuwait High School in the Yemeni capital Sana’a threw stones at the head of the Revolutionary Committee of Al Houthi rebels, Mohammad Al Houthi,” said YemenOnline.info.
The students also “sang the Yemeni anthem refusing a request by Al Houthi commander to echo their motto which includes Death to America and Israel,” added the website.
One of the schoolteachers said the students were heroes in every sense of the word when they refused the request of commander of rebels to shout their bloody motto, it added.
A video clip posted online shows dozens of students at a gathering. However, the poor sound quality made it impossible to recognise what they were saying.
The students called for the expulsion of Al Houthis from the school. However, the school principal with some other teachers used sticks to beat the students in a move “to please the Al Houthi rebel commander.”
Al Houthi militias and their supporters from the forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh are controlling the Yemeni capital. However, the Saudi-led Arab coalition is attacking positions in Sana’a, while fierce battles are going on in Taiz, another major Yemeni city, that is in the grip of the Iran-supported militias.
Aden was liberated a few months ago, and the Yemeni president arrived in the city to supervise the battles in Taiz.
YemenOnline.info is an independent news services established in 2006 by the Yemeni journalist and human rights activist, Jamal Al Awadhi, according to the website. The site offers “comprehensive online source of political, economic and social news from Yemen” and all around the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. The news are updated continuously, the website added.
