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The Saudi-led coalition rapes Yemeni childern!

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The province of Aden, under the control of the United Arab Emirates,a main part of the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, has witnessed a series of protests in different parts of the province, including Crater, Al-Qalaoua and Tawahey, as well as protests in Mansoura, Khor Maksar and Sheikh Osman.
The protests came against because of the killing of Raafat Dunba’a, the main witness of the rape of the “Mu’ala’s child”.

The incident has led to a state of popular unrest that has not yet subsided, especially as coalition forces and paid fighters continue to manipulate the rape of the child by members of the counterterrorism force of the United Arab Emirates-backed Aden Security Administration.

This manipulation resulted in mass popular demonstrations in the Mansoura area as the primary station in the series of protests in the cities and southern regions after the death of Dunba’a, who was a major witness of  the case of rape.

The demonstrations forced Interior Minister the fugitive former Yemeni president, Hadi, Ahmed al-Meissari, to form a commission of inquiry into the incident on Saturday. Hours later, the  head of the investigation committee, the undersecretary of the government in the government of Hadi, came out to announce the handover of the young man responsible for the murder, which many considered an attempt to absorb the anger of the street, especially in the presence of hundreds of those responsible for tampering with security.

Simultaneously with the announcement of the investigation committee on the extradition of one of the accused, activists on social networking sites circulated a video clip of the moment of the raid of a security force affiliated with the so-called counter-terrorism team of Dunba’a.
The video shows military crews of people hunting for him. The video also shows his mother, who is suffering from pain and trying to save her son.

The video’s transmission indicates that there are many defendants in the murder, while the rape case remains confidential.

The investigation committee reached understandings with the UAE-backed forces to hand over the killers, but that did not end the protests. The protesters even raised their demands to dismiss the commander of the anti-terrorist agency Yusran al-Maqtari, whose forces involved in killing crimes against the disappeared ones.  It is also demanded by the inmates of the most famous prison in Aden, run by the UAE, the prison of Bir Ahmed, in solidarity with the protesters, as they carry out mass disobedience in an attempt to pressure the UAE forces.

Security sources confirmed that the announcement of the return of Hadi to Aden is only a prelude to the suppression of protests and demonstrations in the province under the pretext of securing the city to return the drowns.

According to sources, the UAE commander in Aden, Said al-Muhairi (Abu Khalifa), “sent force to the prison to suppress the detainees, which upon arrival tortured them before transferring them to cells and forbids them from eating and drinking.”

At the same time, the Association of Detainees and prisoners, the Southern Initiative of the Community Forces and the Southern Movement for the Affairs of the Dead, the Disappeared and the Detainees were formed. This led to spontaneous popular discontent against the policies of the Coalition to the organized and comprehensive work force with the participation of civil society organizations and political forces.

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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