Widespread public dissatisfaction over brutal execution of citizen by tribals in Shabwa after he was handed over to them

Yemen

Yamanat – Ataq

The horrific execution of a citizen in Yemen’s southeastern Shabwa governorate has sparked widespread discontent in popular and human rights circles.

Human rights activists considered what happened a blatant violation of the law, since the person who was executed was still an accused and was supposed to be handed over to the relevant authorities to investigate the assassination, then refer the case to the prosecution for legal action, before sending him back to court to decide his case.

The Al Bahaj tribe of Shabwa’s Khaban district had handed over one of its sons to the Al South tribe after he was accused of murdering one of its members. After the surrender process, the accused was taken away in a humiliating and inhumane manner, and forcibly laid on the ground by several men, before several armed men started shooting heavy bullets at him until he lost his life.

This incident reveals the absence of the state and its relevant agencies, the rule of “law of the jungle” and the increasing phenomenon of violence in a horrifying manner.

Human rights sources explained that those who executed the person appearing in the circulating recordings are exposed to legal liability, because they killed outside the law, while those who handed it over to others are also exposed to liability, because the decision on retaliation must be executed through the judicial system and the accused must be handed over to a security authority.

For their part, tribal sources considered it a “true black defect” and a crime that had nothing to do with the tribe, its customs or its ancestors.

The sources explained that what the Al Bahaj tribe did in handing over their son, and what was followed by the killing of the Al Soud while he was surrendering, is considered a heinous crime and a blatant violation of God’s law and customs of the tribes. It is not known from the tribes of Yemen or their ancestors that a murderer could be killed when he had surrendered and placed under the protection of others.

The sources pointed out that killing a person who has surrendered is considered one of the greatest faults and is considered a crime, as it violates the pact and harms the person and security.

She noted that the case was made even more serious and gruesome by what was committed subsequently, including heavy shooting of the dead man and mutilation of his body, which is considered an obvious black defect that falls into the third category of black defects, due to mutilation and insults to the dead, and deliberate mutilations which are rejected by Sharia law, rejected by common sense and rejected by tribal customs.

Yemen