Tawakkol Karman, the activist and the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of 2011, has sharply attacked soldiers loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh. 

In Yemen’s rebel-controlled capital Sana’a, soldiers went out today to street to demand monthly salaries that have not been paid for three months.   

Addressing the demonstrators in a post published on Facebook, Karman stated that humiliation and nonpayment salaries are only some inevitable consequences of seizing control of the state by the militia.  

“Some soldiers loyal to ousted president, who opened the door for the Houthi militia to invade Sana’a, went out today in a modest demonstration in order to demand their salaries of the militia”, she wrote on social media.   

She added, “The time when you betrayed your military honor and home, you lost your dignity and everything”.    

It is worth mentioning that the ousted president Saleh served as a facilitator for the Iran-backed Houthi militia to take over the capital Sanaa and seize control over all state institutions, including the security and military headquarters, on September 21, 2014.