# Yemen: Nasser's Forced Recruitment and Escape to Ma'rib

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2108193719132512484
- Source account: [@MllerQuentin](https://x.com/MllerQuentin)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:16
- Published: 2026-10-08
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## Transcript

[0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=1) Nasser. Nasser.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=5) We, we, we go. Uh, I'm with Nasser in the camp of, Saif.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=11) It's the second-largest camp for refugees in, in Ma'rib.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=15) Uh, you should know that there are roughly two million war refugees in Ma'rib. That's enormous for a population of two point eight million inhabitants. So more than three quarters of the inhabitants are war refugees. And most families in these camps fled for one reason only. Not because of Saudi, uh, bombings

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=34) and conflicts with the Houthi rebels, but above all because the Houthi rebels, uh, for most families, force uh, mothers and fathers, uh, to send their children to military training camps so that the, the boys are then sent to the front lines to fight the government legitimate. And then, I'm with Nasser, who is fourteen years old.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=58) Uh, he was forcibly recruited by his uncle.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=61) His father didn't want it. His uncle forcibly recruited him into a military camp. Uh, he trained for one month in Houthi ideology, meaning that Abdel Malik al-Houthi is God.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=73) Uh, they have to fight Israel, the American invaders in Yemen. The legitimate government are Israeli stooges. So that's, that's all they were told, and that— we mainly told them to go fight on the front line and become a martyr for the Palestinian, uh, cause.

[1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=91) And so, uh, Nasser w-w-was only thirteen when he was enlisted. He was trained to, to, to handle a Kalashnikov. Uh, he was given military training.

[1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=104) And he was supposed to be sent to the front line without the intervention of his father, who's with me. Uh, his father paid 300 dollars to, uh, pay a smuggler so that he could then be smuggled out and flee to government-controlled territory, where today,

[2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=120) they live in a refugee camp with uh, very few resources.

[2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=123) There you have it, that is the reality for most refugee families in Ma'rib. And this story of, of, of Nasser is, is unfortunately terribly commonplace.

[2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0152i3Tm2FHu/en/yemen-nasser-s-forced-recruitment-and-escape-to-ma-rib?t=134) Thank you.