The Saudi-led coalition accused of stealing salaries, starving civilians in southern Yemen
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Yemen’s southern areas—which are controlled by Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, especially UAE, are the scene of protests over the past days, with the demonstrators calling for expeling the coalition and paying their salaries.
Head of Yemen Sons League Party Abdulrahman Al-Jafri revealed a serious conspiracy led by the coalition-backed resigned Hadi’s authorities to sell Aden refinery to Saudi Arabia.The move came during his interview with Abu Dhabi News TV Channel.Al-Jafri explained that the Hadi’s authorities deliberately neglected the maintenance of the refinery for destroying and selling it.
Informed sources in the southern port city of Aden said millions of dollars allocated to the so-called “Aden Net” company were not deposited into the company’s account and their fate became unknown, adding“Those millions of dollars were allocated for purchasing 4500 modems and their segments for Aden Net service,” .Aden Net Company was established in last June at a total cost exceeded 93 million dollars.
A group of masked gunmen looted salaries of teachers of Abyan province, which amounted 76 million riyals in the southern port city of Aden.The gunmen intercepted the treasurer of the Abyan Education Office in Khor Maksar district of Aden, during his return with the teachers’ salaries he received from the Central Bank, and looted the money at gunpoint.
Unknown gunmen looted the salaries of retirees of the General Authority for Insurance and Pensions in an ambush against the Secretary General of the Authority Found in Aden province.
The UAE forces have raped a total of 200 detainees and forcibly disappeared in the port city of Aden, southern Yemen, according to a report issued by UN experts .
According to the detainees in the detention facility of the Saudi-led coalition in Boriqa district, they were interrogated naked, blindfolded and handcuffed, as well as they were sexually assaulted and raped.The report confirmed that in March 2018, the UAE forces raided Bir Ahmed prison facility in the city and committed acts of sexual violence.
“About 200 detainees were stripped of their clothing collectively while the UAE officers examined their holes forcibly,” the report said. “During this inspection, many detainees were raped by using various tools, sticks and fingers.”
An armed gang looted 80 million riyals in possession of a citizen in the city of Aden.A gang consisting of five gunmen riding a car, accompanied by a motorcycle, intercepted Adel al-Yafie’s car in the city, looting 80 million riyals from his car, according to sources in the city.
The coalition-backed exiled Hadi’s paid fighters attacked at least 60 money gram markets and arrested dozens of traders in Aden, according to eyewitnesses.The move came under pretexts the markets’ owners did not have the official permits.The sources said that the markets’ owners held the authorities in collapse of economy manipulating in management of the central bank.
Paid fighters affiliated with the UAE-Backed Southern Transition Council (STC) broke into a local popular weapon market , forcing several shops to shut down and confiscated dozens of heavy arms in the southern port city of Aden, residents said, after members of the coalition-backed rival Islamic Islah party (Muslim Brotherhood) have been seen buying arms in the market in al-Shiekh Othman district.
The UAE forces prohibited the arrival of ships to al-Zait port of Aden province, claiming that it is a military port of UAE, claiming that it is a military base belonging to UAE.
Aden’s people condemned and deplored the colonial activities which UAE forces do to steal the Yemeni history and destroy it’s foundations and turn them to military bases.
The United Arab of Emirates (UAE) forces held 11 containers hostage in the port of Aden loaded with money.The sources confirmed that the money is dedicated to the expanse of salaries of what so-called national army and security members in all southern provinces.
According to security sources in the port of Aden, said that “the vessel “Boxcontact” unloaded its cargo in early May, estimated at five containers belonging to the Yemeni central bank,”.There are six other containers that have been in detention for some time now, all of them belong to the central bank of Yemen and contain amounts of money printed by the outgoing government.The sources estimated the total amount held in the port and distributed to 11 containers of 198 billion Yemeni riyals.The discovery of the detention of the 11 containers by the UAE forces in the port of Aden came after the deterioration of the relationships between the outgoing Hadi with the UAE authority.
The economic adviser of the resigned Yemeni president, Hadi, Hafez Muayad, left Aden International Airport.A diplomatic source confirmed that Saudi Arabia summoned the Economic Adviser, Chairman of the Economic Committee Muayad after exposing the role of Hadi government to stand behind the economic collapse, which followed the outbreak of sharp disputes and wide, so the government of “Moin Abdul Malik” filed an official complaint against “Muayad” to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Hafez Mayad has revealed that the Central Bank of Yemen under the government of Hadi behind the process of speculation in foreign currency and misappropriation of 9 billion riyals, causing the largest economic crisis in Yemen..
Forces loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi clashed with people protesting against economic woes and the brutal coalition war on the impoverished country, killing one demonstrator.
Yemenis took to the streets of the southern provinces of Hadarmaut and Aden, which are controlled by pro-Hadi forces.The demonstrators voiced anger at the worsening economic situation in Yemen, including rising prices and the collapse of the national currency.
They also chanted slogans against Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which have been leading an offensive, code-named Operation Decisive Storm, on Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The protests, however, turned ugly as pro-Hadi forces opened fire on the protesters to disperse them, killing one of them in the city of Mukalla in Hadarmaut.
Some chanted, “Pay our salaries in dollars like you take yours in dollars,” a reference to the self-proclaimed officials living abroad amid a domestic currency crisis.
The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, Mohammad Abdulsalam, blamed the US for the deteriorating economic situation in the impoverished country, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported .
The current living conditions of the Yemeni People are a direct result of US threats following the collapse of the UN-sponsored negotiations in Kuwait in 2016, the report quoted him as saying.
“The first step was to transfer the Central Bank from Sana’a to Aden, which happened, immediately, after the consultations of Kuwait, then print the currency, push for high rate of inflation by withdrawal of foreign currency to areas controlled by the occupation and finally the closure of foreign transfers altogether,” al-Masirah quoted Abdulsalam as saying.
Soaring prices have put some basic commodities out of reach for many Yemenis, and the Hadi administration has struggled to pay public sector salaries.
The Saudi-backed Yemeni authorities have sought to boost liquidity by printing money, but the Yemeni riyal plunged from 250 to the dollar to 350 after the first batch of newly printed notes was rolled out last year. It was trading at 440 to the dollar by the end of last year and crashed to around 500 in January.
One dollar is traded now for 600 riyals, from only 513 riyals in mid-August.
In January, Saudi Arabia intervened to save the local currency by depositing $2 billion, but the move seems to have had a little impact on strengthening the ailing currency.
In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.
Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.
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