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Sun Jun 2, 2013 3:7AM GMT
The Yemeni regime has finally released the body of Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, who founded and led the Houthi Shia movement in the country’s north.
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Over the past eight years, the Houthi movement has been led by Hussein’s brother, Abdul-Malek Badreddin al-Houthi.
The Houthis took up arms against the rule of former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2004 to end years of widespread human rights violations and political and religious discrimination against their Shia community in the north.
In August 2009, the Saleh regime - backed by Saudi Arabia - launched Operation Scorched Earth to uproot the Houthis. Clashes and skirmishes continued until February 12, 2010, when the Shia fighters accepted the regime’s ceasefire proposal.
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