American Allay Backing Torture and Forced Disappearances

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Kidnapped and never seen again: Fighters backed by an American ally are being accused of forced disappearances in Yemen.

Exposed the American site “Daily Best”, On Friday, June 9, 2017, pro-Abu Dhabi groups carry out abuses against civilians in Yemen, amounting to mass murder and enforced disappearance, since they entered the war in the impoverished country since 2015.

An armed force run by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has kidnapped hundreds of men in Yemen, according to relatives and local human rights activists, fuelling concerns about the United States’ choice of partners in its war against Islamic extremism.

Yemenis say that over the past year, men in uniform have been coming to people’s homes and taking them away, in many cases never to be seen again. Desperate parents have told the Bureau they have virtually no information on their sons’ fate and nowhere they can turn for help.

The Bureau’s findings echo a report from a United Nations panel of experts earlier this year which raised the alert on forced disappearances in UAE-controlled southeastern Yemen.

Testimonies on the humanitarian situation

The uniformed men are thought to belong to a militia called the Elite Forces, which is under UAE control. The Elite Forces have been accused of taking the men to a secret prison compound at al Riyyan airport in southeastern Yemen, where one human rights activist said they are packed into metal shipping containers then left in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius plus.

“We demand again our right to know the fate of our sons who are detained,” pleads one of these letters. “The parties that have detained them have not said the reasons for their detention and have not put them forward to be judged.

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