Abdul-Malik
Badreddin al-Houthi has been a military leader of the Houthi band of
Zaidi Shia insurgents in Yemen since his brother Hussein's death in
2004. In 1994, Hussein started a faction of
Shia called the Believing Youth (Shabab al-Mu'mineen), which opposes
the Yemeni government's corruption on religious grounds. A peaceful
movement in its first years, it became armed in 2004, launching an
insurgency against the government; Hussein was killed three months
into the conflict.
Relatively
little is known about Abdul-Malik, whether he has a wife or children.
His death was rumored in 2009, but this has been refuted by
subsequent videos and interviews. The Believing Youth insurgency has
continued intermittently from Hussein's death until the beginning of
2011 in six rounds. Abdul-Malik's brother Yahia is the group's
political leader and a former member of Parliament currently in exile
in Germany. The Houthis strongly support Yemen's Arab Spring
protests.
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