Emirati forces hold hundreds of Saudi-led coalition paid fighters after fleeing battle against Yemeni joint forces

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According to sources in the South Yemen Movement, at least 800 paid fighters from the Saudi-hired brigades of Tariq Afash, have been jailed by Emirati forces for desertion, after fleeing from battle against the Yemeni joint forces.

Tariq Afash is the nephew of the late Ali Abdullah Saleh, the despot who ruled as president of Yemen from 1990 until 2011, and was killed in December 2017 following his defection to the side of the Saudi and Emirati invaders.

Vowing to avenge his uncle and continue his path of defection, Afash offered his services to the UAE forces and promised to defeat the National Salvation Government in Aden “within ten days”. However, after a series of heavy defeats in Taiz province, the paid fighter leader was allegadly summoned to the Emirates in order to answer for his failures.

Now, reports state that several hundreds of Tariq Afash paid fighters have been held while running from combat against the Yemeni joint forces . 

Some 800 troops escapt the battlefield around the coastal city of Mocha, and were subsequently held and deported to Aden The captives were loaded in buses and brought to Camp Bir Ahmed, which is currently under control of UAE armed forces, in order to stand trial for treason and escape from the battlefield.

Sources also indicate that the Afash paid fighters were armed with state of the art modern weaponry by their Emirati masters, but in many cases left behind their weapons on the battlefield or even sold them to traders after deserting.

Major General in Yemeni joint forces ,al-Hakim ,said in a tweet on Twitter that Tariq Saleh paid 100,000 riyals to each person who had joined him ,and that they did not know that this was the price of their “rape” in the prison of Bir Ahmad in Aden.

Aden city, which was occupied by UK but now under the control of UAE, and the rest of the southern cities witnessed an insecurity situation that increased the assassinations of Imams of mosques and security and military leaderships