Shia communities in Aden face relentless persecution

Sources in Yemen said that several Shia families had been forced to go into hiding

 

 

Sources in Yemen said that several Shia families had been forced to go into hiding after militias targeted their homes and business in the seaport city of Aden.

Wahhabis and Salafists began their nefarious proselytist campaign in 1994, after former President Ali Abdullah Saleh offered the kingdom a certain religious license in Yemen.

While thousands of families chose early during the war to either return back to Sana’a, the capital where they feel their faith will be respected or leave Yemen altogether, those less economically fortunate had to stay behind to face increasing hardship.

Today hardship has become persecution. Families have been denied humanitarian aid, their homes have been raided, their businesses were shut down and on some instances valuables were stolen by Wahhabi militias.