Nada Al-Ahdal | #A_Servant_Not_Worth_It!

#A_Servant_Not_Worth_It!
- Yesterday I posted about the crime of sexual harassment of displaced women from Hodeidah in Dar Saad district by forces belonging to the Security Belt, and some did not believe what I said.
- This morning I posted a full video of the victims speaking about what happened to them, and after media pressure the case became a matter of public opinion, so Mohsen Al-Wali, commander-in-chief of the Security Belt brigades, moved and ordered the formation of a military committee to investigate the matter.
- In the evening one of the commanders contacted me — I will not mention his name, so that the matter does not become personal and they say we are targeting a particular "village" — and said: Now you are making all this fuss over these "Akhdam" ("servants"), Ahmed, are you out of your mind?
- I told him: without this racist language of yours — yes, I did this, and I will carry on until they get their rights through the law.
- He said: look, what happened has happened; now we are trying to fix the matter and reconcile them, we will give the family a sum of money and that is the end of it, and you don't write about the subject or make a fuss over "a servant who isn't worth it". Understand, brother.
- I said to him: would you accept it if your wife or one of your relatives, God forbid, were sexually assaulted and you were given a sum of money to keep quiet? I ask you by God, would you accept it?
- He insulted us and blocked me on WhatsApp.
- And the question that arises: is it because you are a "servant", as the commander put it, that you have no right to claim your legitimate rights?
- Have we become this contemptible, valuing rights according to people's origins?
I was completely shocked by what I heard today.
Sadly, the case of the harassment of the displaced will be watered down by the Security Belt, because the victims are simple people, without power or strength, with no one to back them.
And the perpetrators have not even been jailed!
My message to both:
Aidarous Al-Zubaidi.
Mohsen Al-Wali.
- You will answer before God and the people for this humanitarian, moral and religious case. No religion, no law and no tribal custom allows you to violate a woman's honour and leave the perpetrators unpunished because the woman is a "servant" and has no one to back her!
The matter is very simple: hand the real perpetrators over to the public prosecution so that they are formally tried and this heinous crime is not repeated.
Prove to the world that you are statesmen and men of honour, even just once, and do not allow wrongdoing and crimes to happen on your land.
The Yemeni government has no real presence in Aden; you are the ones responsible for and in control of security, so fear God and restore this woman's dignity and honour from the human wolves of the security forces!

2 April 2020
Ahmed Maher

Nada Al-Ahdal | Human rights activist against child marriage