News - Yemen: The UAE- backed Southern Transitional militia demolished dozens of homes in the Bir Ahmed area, west of Aden.

Local sources in the city confirmed that the militia expelled dozens of families from their homes at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and proceeded to demolish residential buildings in Bir Ahmed al-Qaloua without prior warning, under the pretext that the land would be a site for the solar power plant project.

The sources stated that the militia came to the region aboard Emirati vehicles and armored vehicles, forcing families to leave their homes to spend the blessed days of Eid al-Fitr in the open, indicating that the lands belonged to them inherited from their fathers and grandfathers hundreds of years ago.

The sources pointed out that the people of the region lived over the past decades without the most basic services, so that their lands were attacked and their homes demolished without any compensation.

Sheikh Rashad Awad Bessi, a member of the local council in the Al-Buraiqa district, head of the community committees in the Al-Qalou’a area, said, “The demolition of homes is an injustice that no one accepts it.”

Bessi added, “A committee has previously visited the site of the citizens’ homes and promised to pay compensation, so that they can build new homes for them. However, this did not happen.

He pointed out that those in charge of the solar power plant project have not yet specified the area they want for the project, or specified another area for citizens to move to, but rather made the matter suspended.

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 an increase in 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.