News - Yemen: The ongoing confrontations between the US-Saudi aggression mercenaries and its tools in Abyan governorate caused about 38 dead and wounded.

Local sources said that gunmen belong to the "Islah" militia attacked a military post of the "transitional" militia in Ahwar district, killing at least 27 people, including 21 recruits from the so-called "security belt" forces of the transitional.

The sources said that the so-called "anti-terrorist battalion" of the "transitional militia", Yasser Abu Shaye', was killed during the attack.

Leaders in the "Southern Transitional" accuse Islah's gunmen of being behind the offensive operation, while some consider that the armed attack was planned in advance by Emirati intelligence to control the Hadramout Valley districts.

Last week, a security official at the Ministry of Interior in the pro-aggression government survived an assassination attempt in the center of the city of Aden, which is under the control of the “Southern Transitional” militia. 

Local sources in Aden confirmed that the Director General of Financial Affairs in the coalition interior, Nayef Al-Hamidi, was subjected to an assassination attempt with an explosive device in the Khor Maksar district, without any injuries. The sources indicated that the explosive device exploded while Al-Hamidi was leaving his office in the area. 

Earlier, Shabwa governorate witnessed the detonation of two explosive devices in two different places, which led to injuries among members of the UAE militia, including one of the leaders.

Last June, the UAE militia accused the Islah party of carrying out assassinations and detonating explosive devices, which led to the killing and wounding of a number of UAE military leaders.

Aden and southern governorates are witnessing security chaos, and almost daily crimes, under the control of the forces of US-Saudi aggression and Saudi-Emirati occupation. They witness increasing of assassinations involving military security leaders, religious and social tendencies, kidnapping, bombings and clashes between militants fighting for influence among them.

The annual report issued by the Media Center for the Southern Governorates stated that it had documented 1259 crimes and serious violations during the past year, including 159 assassinations as a result of the conflict between the militia of the Southern Transitional.
 
The report indicated that the center monitored 82 home raids in Aden and Shabwa governorates. Kidnappings have escalated, in Aden, Abyan, Shabwa and Lahj 67 crimes were committed affecting military commanders, civilian leaders and citizens, including party leaders, workers, women and children. 

The crimes of clashes in the governorates of Aden, Lahj, Al-Dhalae, Abyan and Shabwa increased to 265 crimes due to insecurity and the proliferation of militias and armed groups loyal to the countries of the coalition.

220 detention crimes affected people in Aden, Shabwa, Lahj, Abyan, Hadramout and Al Dhalae, indicating that 200 violations and forced deportations were committed on racial grounds against 4,500 people, the report added.
 
The report indicated that 92 crimes of extortion against merchants and investors of the occupied southern governorates were committed.

“Based on the directives of the occupying countries, the armed militias affiliated with them faced peaceful protests in the streets of Aden, Ataq, Mukalla and Wadi Hadramawt districts by force of arms, forced arrests, chases, and raids on the homes of the free people who rejected the occupation,” the report pointed out.

The report stated that the Center's monitoring unit has recorded 380 crimes against peaceful protesters in the occupied southern governorates during September, including three killings, 280 arrests and extra-legal detentions, and 36 neighborhood raids to search for activists opposed to the starvation policies implemented by the occupying countries and Hadi's government.

As a result of the escalating security chaos, seven incidents of systematic bombings, with the intent to harm the citizens' peace in the city of Aden, were monitored, and 9 raids of citizens' homes by armed militias, in addition to the suppression, intimidation, shooting and arrest of the protesters in a number of governorates.