
The Voices of Women of Aden, a Yemeni non-governmental coalition, yesterday said 196 women were killed in five months during the war waged by the rebel Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh on the governorate.
Some of the women victims were killed in their houses by the rebel militia's random bombing, while others were targeted in the streets by the rebel snipers or succumbed to their wounds in hospitals, said Warda Bin Sumait Chairwoman of the Al-Adala Foundation for Rights and Freedoms, one of the seven women societies making up the non-governmental coalition.
The Yemeni woman advocate, who was speaking in a press conference held to observe the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, confirmed that 121 other women in Aden were wounded by the rebel militias in the same period.
"The Houthi and Saleh militias committed ignominious violations against women in Aden between 26 March-17 July," she said.
In addition, the war being waged by the rebels has inflicted multiple physical and psychological trauma on Yemeni women, Bin Sumait added.
Source: WAM
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