Documenting my rights for grave violations of UAE militias in Yemen
SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties documented huge violations of the human rights committed by the UAE militias in Yemen as part of Abu Dhabi’s plots to spread chaos and sabotage in the country.
The human rights organization said that it had documented more than 120 violations during the past three months in the city of Aden, in southern Yemen, which is under the control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council militants.
The organization stated that among the violations were cases of arbitrary arrest, death under torture, assassinations and displacement of persons belonging to the northern governorates.
The human rights organization called on the UAE-backed Transitional Council to respect international human rights law, and to release the detainees.
This comes as the armed men of the Transitional Council, supported by the UAE, launched a large-scale arrest campaign in the Qalansiyah district in the Yemeni governorate of Socotra Archipelago, which included leaders in the local authority offices.
Yemeni sources said that the arrests came against the background of the demonstration that the Qalaniyah Directorate witnessed last Monday, in protest against the Emirati presence in Socotra and to demand the return of state institutions.
On Monday, the Qalansiyah district witnessed a demonstration organized by the people against the Emirati presence in Socotra, and to demand the return of state institutions represented by the leadership of the local authority; the restoration of state headquarters and the expulsion of the militia brought by the Emirati forces from outside the archipelago. The STC militants – backed by the United Arab Emirates – tried to disperse the demonstration by shooting.
In the context, local and Yemeni government sources said that the Transitional Council gunmen began arrest campaigns against 3 officials of the local authority in Socotra Governorate (southeast).
It indicated that the arrest of these officials is part of a list of 14 people, including activists who organized a demonstration last Monday in western Socotra, in which hundreds of citizens participated against the STC’s continued control of the archipelago.
In recent weeks, the pace of demonstrations and protests against the STC’s control over the island, which is strategically located in the Indian Ocean, has increased in Socotra.
On June 19, the Transitional Council, which demands the secession of southern Yemen from its north, took control of Hadibo, the capital of Socotra.
Politically, the Yemeni government demanded to quickly take measures to end the rebellion of the Transitional Council on Socotra Island.
And at the end of last July, the Saudi-led Arab coalition announced a mechanism to accelerate the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement signed between the Yemeni government and the Transitional Council in November 2019. The mechanism included: The transitional abandonment of the Autonomous Administration in the southern governorates, and the formation of a government of equal competencies between the south and the north.
At that time, the Transitional Council announced that it had abandoned its decision to self-administer the southern governorates, nearly 3 months after it declared self-rule there, without resolving its position on Socotra.
