Union National Bank in Saudi-occupied Aden Denounces Violence Against Union

On Nov 1, 2022

The employees of the National Bank of Yemen in Aden city, currently under the control of the Saudi-led aggression, carried out an open strike until getting a response to their legitimate demands.

The Banks’ employees confirmed in a statement issued, Sunday, that the strike came as a result of the interventions of the chairman of the bank’s board of directors in the work of the unions and giving directions to storm the office of the head of the union.

The union explained that the strike began, Monday, in condemnation of the current chaos that harms the bank and deliberately distorts the name and reputation of the bank.

It added that the banks’ employees will take all legal measures and are ready to escalate unless getting a response to thier demands within the next 72 hours.

Media affiliated with the pro-Saudi government confirmed the escalation steps including withdrawals and depletion of foreign currencies from the market in the occupied areas, especially Aden. Dozens of what is described as “brokers” are withdrawing the Saudi riyal and the US dollar from exchange shops and from citizens in the occupied governorate of Aden, in exchange for tempting amounts of illegal currency.

It pointed out that the increase offered by these “brokers” to purchase foreign currencies amounts to three thousand riyals above the exchange rate circulating in the market, and stressed that they follow mercenary leaders in Aden.

This information confirms what the Central Bank in Sana’a recently revealed about the resort of mercenary leaders in Marib governorate to drain foreign currency from the governorate’s markets and neighboring governorates, in return for attractive prices of illegal local currency.

The pro-Saudi government are trying to exchange the money that they collected from corruption and looting of revenues, to its equivalent in foreign currency, in order to facilitate smuggling it abroad, in light of the continuous defeats they suffer in the filed.

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 the pro-aggression 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.