2020-07-04
By Sarah Hassan
Houthis killed four black men and injured others in Yemen's northern province of Amran on Saturday, after the dark-skinned refused to be recruited to the Shia militants' warfronts against the government.
The Houthi local Security Supervisor Abu Ali al-Khawlani was trying to recruit marginalized people in the area upon directives of the Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi last month.
The female relatives of the slain yanked a firearm from one of the escorts of Al-Khawlani and shot Al-Khawlani dead and arrested the escorts.
Yemeni historians say the Imams dynasty, ancestors of Houthis, who pre-1962 divided Yemen into a caste ladder, placing themselves on the top as descendants of prophet Mohammed and Yemenis of African descent at the bottom in violation of the tenets of Islam.