He was instrumental in the against the government, which began in 2004 | After months of battles between Yemeni security forces and Houthis, on 10 September the Yemeni Interior and Defense Ministries released a statement declaring that he had been killed, along with 20 of his aides, in Marran province, |
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Early life [ ] Al-Houthi was born in 1956 in the Marran area of Sada'a region | Legacy [ ] On 5 June 2013, tens of thousands of Yemeni Shias attended the reburial of the remains of al-Houthi in , where armed rebels were deployed in large numbers |
According to a disciple, al-Houthi lived part of his life with his family, including his father and his younger brother, Abd al-Malik, in ,.
Al-Houthi, who was a one-time rising political aspirant in Yemen, had wide religious and tribal backing in northern Yemen's mountainous regions | |
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The new Yemeni government had turned over his remains to his family on 28 December 2012 as a goodwill gesture to bolster national reconciliation talks | The previous government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had stepped down in 2012 after the , originally buried al-Houthi in 2004 at the Sana'a central to prevent his from becoming a for the Zaidis |
Iris Glosemeyer and Don Reneau, "Local Conflict, Global Spin: An Uprising in the Yemen Highlands," Middle East Report, No.
21Death [ ] On 18 June 2004, Yemeni police arrested 640 of his followers, who were demonstrating in front of the | After his return to Yemen, he broke with Al-Haqq to form his own party |
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"The al Houthi Insurgency in the North of Yemen: An Analysis of the Shabab al Moumineen" | Preceded by Post-Created June 2004 — September 2004 Succeeded by |
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