Almotamar.net, Saba - Vice President Abid Rabeh Mansour Hadi on Monday accused the Houthi elements of rebellion and sabotage of killing innocent citizens and carrying out attacks on the armed forces and security, blocking roads, destroying mosques and schools and projects as well as houses and violating sanctities, horrifying peaceful children, women and elderly people in addition to displacing families and plundering their properties in Saada province and district of Harf Sufyan in Amran province.

In an address he delivered at a ceremony at the Republican Guard School in Sana'a on Monday Vice-President Abid Rabeh Mansour Hadi said the brave fighters of the armed forces and security are registering the greatest heroic feats in their confrontation with he Houthi elements of rebellion and devastation. He confirmed that they are achieving victories and teaching the rebels hard lessons and inflicting on them successive defeats.

Hadi expressed his happiness for being with the heroes of the Republican Guard and the armed forces.

He also saluted the warriors, who are fighting against the rebellion in Saada governorate and defeating the insurgents of Houthis.

The projects aim to split the homeland and hurt the people and their supreme interests but those projects will be defeated and we will be the victorious, Hadi said.

The Vice-President conveyed the President Ali Abdullah Saleh's congratulations to the entire armed forces on Eid al-Fitr and 47th anniversary of 26 September revolution.

For his part the commander of the Republican Guard and the Special Forces General Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh expressed pride of the Republican Guard and Special Forces troops to be fighting along with units of the armed forces and security in confronting the Houthis criminal gangs that dream of restoring the eras of darkness, despotism and backwardness.


Houthi rebels launched sporadic wars against the armed forces troops since 2004. They resulted in killing thousands of people, soldiers and insurgents in Saada governorate, which is located close to border with Saudi Arabia.

The rebel group was founded by rebel leader Hussein al-Houthi.

Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group leader Abdul-Malik, was killed by the army in September 2004.

The Houthi group tries to reinstall the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.