There is no change that I am waiting for, like the change of the word “war” from the phrase “The war in Yemen” and replacing it with the word “love”. Many Yemenis are waiting for this fall. That what are her eyes say.
Studies by the United Nations Population Fund have shown the impact of the conflict in our country on the marriage of young girls and confirm that about (1 out of 5) girls from emigration, families got married and that the continuation of the conflict and its negative consequences in addition to the economic situation prompted an increase in the rate of child marriage to 66% to benefit from their dowries and protect them from molestation in light of the lack of security, which caused an increase in the rate of violence of all kinds, and a rise in the death rate of young mothers and the deaths of their children under five years of age.
“Wydad” is a little girl who did not exceed her first decade. She was married to someone who considered his first decade a thing from the distant past, and Wydad died on her wedding day. This is how the fate of the little girl was, and she is not the only one, nor is she the last. Hundreds of stories in Yemen, especially after kindling the conflict between the disputing parties inside the country, are similar to This story, the marriage of young girls has become the ideal and immediate solution for the weak-minded, who trifle with the logic of human existence.
Mukalla _ Muhammad Khamis
Another Wydad comes to us this time from Hadhramaut (S.S). This is how the victim preferred to be her symbol in the story, and we preferred to call her “Wydad” about the martyr of violence against children, “Wydad,” the underage whose soul ascended to heaven on her fateful wedding day, leaving her body a corpse.
Wydad Hadramout, the war, and the deteriorating economic situations prompted her father to think of getting rid of her to relieve himself of the burden of spending on the family and also to invest the money that the capable husband will give him in exchange for the marriage deal in a legitimate business with which to support the rest family members, and for that reason, “Wydad Hadhramout,” with a decade and a half, was a victim of the circumstances of the war, whose cruelty did not pity the children of Yemen.
They were right when they said that only the young ones pay the price for the mistakes of the old ones, at the heaviest price.
Exactly two years ago, when she was fourteen years old, her marriage ceremony took place with the elderly man, who is more than 30 years older than she is, and Wydad was not asked for her consent or her opinion. I was surprised that the mother told her that her father decided to hold her wedding to the suitor who proposed to her yesterday and wants to get married within a week, so simply as if time had gone back there to that period in which slave girls were bought and sold at a cheap price compared to human dignity.
Acts in this current period are very similar to their predecessors, as the difference is only in the names.
Wydad handed over her doll, which had been inseparable from her earliest youth, and her close friend prepared it for her mother, who told her to give it to her. It is inappropriate for the bride to appear in front of others with a doll in her hand, citing that ridicule and laughing at them is not appropriate, and she does not know that this scene if achieved, will be the comic scene in this shameful play In addition to the rest of the scenes, which are no less shameful than it, the doll was not only handed over to her but her childhood, with its innocence and happiness, was handed over to her.
In a closed room, “Wydad Hadramout” found herself with the husband her father had chosen for her, where she was surprised on the first day by his attempt to beat her and not understanding her fear, shyness, and timidity.
The tongue of her condition was said, my soul, screamed inside me when I saw him, he was a thug but rather a devil wearing the best suit, I said to myself: I will not be able to be patient with him, so my end is at his hand, for I was like a meek lamb and he was smiling like a wolf who reaped what he wanted, so was the case of the little girl. Also, she did not have any documents documenting the violation she was subjected to, except that she now bears the title of a divorced woman and has a divorce document as well as a marriage document. The matter between them lasted less than five months.
Since their marriage, life with him is hell with distinction. This is what her room said and the only witness to what happened. Where the childhood, with its holiness, shares her crying, and the walls of the house announce the whining of the wounded.
Five months, including weeks and days, passed by Wydad Hadramout, a passage that was not like the passing of the honorable at all. Humiliation, violence, and beatings dominated her little body, and the expressions of pain and pain, how not, and the hardness of his heart rivaled the toughness of his hand.
Through this experience, Wydad hated the name of marriage, and with it, she lost confidence in all men, including her father, because she wondered, “Tell me where oblivion is sold, and where do I find my former features, and how can I return to myself?” After everything that happened, she went back to him again to bear her expenses after he ran out of money that he received in exchange for the “Wydad” sale deal, and the situation became worse, and Wydad currently lives in the family house next to her father, but she considers him to be the first violator of her rights and then comes the husband’s violation, and she is sad and in a suffocated voice, she says, and by god, I do not feel safe with my father in the house for fear that he will repeat the same act, and by God, all the words of regret uttered by humanity are not enough to bring back the childhood that was forcibly stolen from me in the claws of war.