One of the Yemeni tribes sparked widespread anger on social media, after she was rejected and boycotted by one of the tribe’s sons, after his marriage to the daughter of Halq.
A few days ago, the “Al Sibai” tribe held a meeting in the Al -Shujadir District, southeast of Hajjah Governorate, northwest of Yemen, to discuss one of its members who applied to marry the daughter of Halqa for men, who is called in some Yemeni areas as “decorated”, which the tribe see “in contravention of its custom and traditions.”
The tribe unanimously issued a written decision that recently spread on social media platforms, against her son, indicating the abolition of his marriage and “removing him from brotherhood”, which is a tribal tribal level of social rejection and explicit innocence, as well as depriving him of all his rights and advantages and preventing him from participating in the life of the tribe.
The tribe’s position was met with extreme discontent and condemnation on social media, as a “backward behavior and class discrimination”, devoting racist practices, and undermining the values of societal equality.
Many Yemeni tribes are still adhering to their customs and traditions, which divide society into layers according to professions that are related to many families, such as butchers, barber and craftsmen, whether at the present time or are linked to grandparents, as minimum functions, which leads to the abolition of many marriages in the country.
While the domestic legislation of racism, inherited since the era of the Mutawakkil kingdom in northern Yemen, the Houthi militia, which dominated these areas, returned to devote the behaviors of the division of society into layers, by enacting laws that give some preferred families classes, 5% of the resources of the state and the property of the Yemenis, in what is called the “Al -Khuma” law.
