News - Yemen: A number of government and party figures commented on the suspicious American and British activities aimed at occupying the southern regions which have no military confrontations.

"The American, British, Emirati, and Saudi forces are currently present along the coastal area and in Yemeni islands. The occupation is in large scale and threatens the country, but there is a revolutionary movement in several provinces that will stand against it," the Secretary-General of the Congress Party, Ghazi Ahmed Ali, said.

"The American and British bases are currently deployed in the governorates of Al-Mahra, Hadhramout, and Shabwa, and in areas that the military confrontations did not reach," the governor of Lahj, Sheikh Ahmed Juraib, said.

"The UAE forces have turned Al-Rayyan airport, the third largest Yemeni airport, into a military barracks, and it receives daily US military planes," he added. 

The head of Central Committee, Sheikh Yahya Abu Osbaa, indicated that the situation in the south should be the concern of all national parties and organizations in Yemen.

The governor of Abyan, Major General Saleh Al-Junaidi, explained that the presence of the Americans and the British came after preparing the ground and removing the free people opposing occupation.

The southern governorates witnessed the highest level of crimes and violations. 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-Dhalea, 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 Dhale'e, 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 committ

“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.

Occupied southern governorates are witnessing a tragic situation, high crime levels, currency deterioration, and rising prices. They have witnessed protests and sit-ins during the last period, due to the worsening humanitarian and economic conditions.