The killing of the leader of Yemen's rebel Houthi movement, Saleh al-Sammad- no matter by whom- is an important opportunity to remember that the best way to rule Yemen is through elections, not though force or imposition of fait accompli, said Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman. 

In a statement on Facebook, Karman said that Saleh al-Sammad was not a legitimate president of Yemen, and no one expected him to pass away otherwise. 

Iranian-backed Houthi militia announced today that the chairman of the so-called Supreme Political Council, Saleh al-Sammad, leh al-Samad, was on Thursday in the port city of Hodeidah, on Yemen’s west coast, in several strikes which killed six others in his retinue.

"I trust that all the warlords, who excessively shed the blood of Yemenis, will meet the same fate,” she concluded.