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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 12:53
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Committee urges refugees to head to camps, safe corridors made

SANA'A, Oct. 13 (Saba) – The Supreme Security Committee has called on the displaced from the clashes between the army and the Houthi rebels in the north to head for four camps it had allocated for them, saying safe corridors have been made.

Within the government's efforts and in response to calls for providing safe
corridors for the refugees in Saada and Amran, the committee has urged the refugees
in the Harf
Sufyan district, Amran, to head to the Khaiwan Camp, the refugees in the districts
of Razeh, Shada'a, Hidan and Ghamr, Saada, to head to the Almezraq Camp in the
Almalaheedh
district, a spokesman for the committee said.
The committee also called on the refugees in the districts of Baqim, Qataber and
Manbah, Saada, to head for the Alib Camp, and the refugees in the districts of
Sahar and
Saqain, Saada, to head for the Saada City and Sam and Ehsa'a Camps.
He added the committee would provide the refugees with care, protection and aid to
enable them to reach the camps.
The spokesman, however, held the Houthi rebels responsible for blocking the
refugees from going to the displaced camps, holding them and using them as human
shields as well
as planting landmines in the roads to block aid from reaching the affected.
The insurgents, supported by Iran, have recently started to use the people as in
Saada and Amran as human shield when military operations intensified against them.
They also planted landmines in roads killing the people and blocking aid and relief
agencies form reaching the affected by a sixth war that started in August.
The Houthi followers, who seek to restore imamate rule, have been fighting the
troops since 2004, but the battles within the recent war are deemed the fiercest
and the
deadliest for the rebels.
Hundreds of rebels have been killed, wounded and arrested. Many others have
surrendered to the army.
Recently a former Houthi leader revealed that the rebels, stationing in Saada and
some parts of neighboring Amran, had plans to expand to Hajja and Mareb.
The leader also said that they received Iranian and Hezbollah material support and
training. He talked about FR

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