Emirates to Yemen: Ours Are Islands and Ports ….and yours Are Ruined Prisones

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Since its entry into the war in Yemen, the UAE has extended its influence in the strategic areas of the coast, extending its ambitions from the island of Socotra in the Gulf of Aden, and in the heart of Bab al-Mandab, to the port of Mukha and other ports on the coast of 2500 kilometers, Arab Region and the Middle East.

The objective of the UAE to enter Yemen and to make human and material sacrifices in a war with no clear horizon is no longer hidden, especially since the stated reason for participation, namely, “the restoration of legitimacy”, seems remote even in the areas of influence of the Alliance of Aggression and the local forces loyal to it. The clear goal is to ensure a stable and sustainable existence of the UAE’s influence on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and it begins by strengthening the presence of the forgotten and neglected “Virgin Islands”, despite their strategic importance.

The 216 islands of Yemen are spread along the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, including Miyoun and Sutkaria, and are classified as “golden islands” in the Middle East, but because of their geography and unique nature, into areas of conflict and influence among States.

In January, the Middle East’s Defense and Middle East Defense Report reported that Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had revealed to UAE military leaders his desire to strengthen the role of the navy in “protecting and securing the coast of Yemen” In a move that comes within the strategic “strong man” plan to expand military deployment in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab to the coast of the Horn of Africa. According to the intelligence site, Ibn Zayed “is in constant contact with the Pentagon to study the expansion of the role of the Navy,” which has already begun to establish military bases in Yemen, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia, in addition to hiring a number of ports for export and import, Disable it!
Socotra … the big story
In February last year, media outlets reported reports accusing the outgoing Yemeni president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, of leasing Socotra Island to the UAE for a period of “99 years.” Amid the great public discontent, Hadi denied the controversial agreement, pointing fingers at the time to former Vice President Khalid Bahah, who, according to sources quoted by the Arab site, which follows the affairs of the Arabian Peninsula, “signed with the UAE contracts with the knowledge of Hadi, who agreed In the beginning….

All areas that the UAE set foot upon had gradually been transformed into military zones
But he did not know what was really going on in the minds of Emiratis. ”
The accusations coincided with the disclosure of informed sources that the son of Zayed treated with Hadi a “method of inappropriate protocol and with a degree of superiority and superiority,” and on the basis that “we are preparing you to Aden,” during a stormy gathering Monday, while the number of Crown Prince, Legitimacy “and stressed that” our sacrifices and the blood of 65 martyrs of the UAE will not be in vain. ”

But the wrath of “legitimacy”, and behind it Riyadh, of Abu Dhabi did not prevent the latter from continuing its systematic practices to complete control of the island, which remained the regional and international ambitions due to its location on the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa and near the Gulf of Aden. Socotra, a four-island archipelago, is characterized by a unique natural diversity, with hundreds of trees, plants and animals that do not exist in any other region of the world. This prompted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2008 to classify the island, which has an area of about 3796 square kilometers and has a population of about one hundred thousand people, as “the strangest islands of the world,” Socotra also has a coastline of 300 Km.

Under the pretext of “investment” and “humanitarian aid” after the storms of 2015, the process of the UAE occupation of the island began to change its unique features and demography and even its Yemeni identity, through naturalization of the population and the training of more than 300 of its members militarily, to become the Abu Dhabi Army.

According to the press reports, which have proliferated in the past two years, the UAE has established a secret port in Socotra. It has operated three direct weekly flights between Abu Dhabi and Al Jazeera. It has established an Emirati telecommunications network and linked it to the island. It also purchased large tracts of land or sold them to residents of its nationality, and sent 80 military vehicles to it.

It also set up tourism facilities that harm the nature of the island. It reached the point of targeting and plundering plant and animal wealth, transporting plants and rare birds to the Abu Dhabi gardens, and fishing and razing coral reefs threatening the fisheries. More seriously, the UAE military presence on the island, which was occupied by Britain in 1886 and continued there until the independence of southern Yemen in 1967, represents a foothold for the United States, which sought to control it as part of a plan to extend its influence on the Indian Ocean, after controlling Diego Garcia The Indian Ocean, 1,600 kilometers south of the Indian coast) in the early 1970s.
Millon «Neck of Babal Mandab»

After Socotra, the role of the island of Mayun in the heart of Bab al-Mandab, as well as the foreign military presence in it, came under pressure from its inhabitants to evict and relocate them to build a military base. The Newsweek magazine confirmed that the 13-square-kilometer (13 sq km) port of the UAE between the two countries is being transferred to a military base without the knowledge of its legitimate Yemeni government. The military installations adopted by the UAE “will give Abu Dhabi full control over one of the most important strategic maritime routes in the world: the Bab al-Mandab Strait. ”

Moune is strategically located even from the rest of the Bab al-Mandab islands, because it divides the strait into two vessels for the passage of ships. This is called the Bab al-Mandab neck. In recent weeks, there has been increasing talk of the expansion of the UAE in Myon, “in the absence of Saudi Arabia.” Satellite images and maps published by Jane’s, a military research journal, revealed Abu Dhabi’s new runway, to complete its construction and other constructions by the end of this year ».

This is not the first time a foreign country has sought to strengthen its military presence on this volcanic island. The United States and France have already asked the Yemenis over the past decades to allow them to establish military bases there, but the authorities refused, fearing popular repercussions. For any external presence.
Port of Mukha
As well as the islands, the poorest Arab country has more than 10 major ports that make it, in addition to its natural resources and energy resources, one of the most commercialized countries in the region. Currently, fighting in the West Coast, especially in the southwestern city of Al-Mukha, which has a vital port near Bab al-Mandab, is one of the most prominent developments in the Yemeni landscape. These events reflect not only the confusion of the forces allied to the aggression, but also the confusion in the structure of this “alliance” in which the Arab and international ambitions, economic and trade conflict.

Local sources have revealed the transformation of Abu Dhabi port of the brain, which is the oldest in the country, to the military barracks of its forces, which there are more than 400 soldiers. According to the Yemeni sites, it is forbidden to approach the port since the declaration of the aggression alliance in February, and also to evacuate fishing boats and to prevent fishing through it. It is the livelihood of most of the population along the coastline from Bab al-Mandab to the port known as: «Al-Orouk Coast»

What is happening today in Mina al-Mukha is similar to what happened at Al-Rayyan airport in the city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout province in the east of the country, which was turned by the UAE forces into a military base where hundreds of prisoners opposed to the country’s foreign presence are held. An investigative report by the Associated Press on the establishment of these secret prisons in various parts of southern Yemen provoked a wave of anger among Yemeni opposition and pro-coalition circles, which saw it as no less serious than the geographical and political occupation of Abu Dhabi in it.

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