The Houthi coup militias called on tribesmen to overthrow their sheikhs who have held positions for many years and appoint new sheikhs loyal to them during meetings around the capital Sana'a throughout the month of Ramadan on the pretext of preventing them from contributing to supporting the coup militias with fighters, sending them to the fronts, accusing them of treason and trying to change the demographic and societal reality of these tribes in line with their interests. Yemeni sources confirmed that Houthi coup militias are working to break up the national and social fabrics and put the change of sheikhs on their priorities, especially in the areas around Sanaa and that they are in the process of issuing decrees describing them as traitors in order to get fighters to continue their coup against the legitimate authority, pointing to setting up the so-called "tribal cohesion council" and appointing a sheikh loyal to them as its head, taking advantage of the policy of some countries that support terrorism. The sources added, "The coup militias are currently working to select new sheikhs for these tribes to replace old sheikhs who have not welcomed the coup and refused to carry out their orders to recruit children and young people to fight with their gangs on the fronts. The sources also pointed out that the militias of the coup have paid large sums of money and assigned a number of positions and military ranks to a number of influential people in those tribes in order to convince the largest segment of the members of these tribes with various arguments, including the pretext of unifying ranks against the legitimacy and Arab Coalition to support the legitimacy to achieve their goals in the continuation of the coup, depletion of tribes, continuing control of state's institutions, and collection of revenues for the pockets of the so-called popular committees and leaders loyal to Al-Houthi and his family.
