Women in Mahrah province hold protest against Saudi presence
MAHRAH, July 12 (YPA) – Women in Mahrah province held mass rally on Friday demanding departure of Saudi occupation forces and dismissal of Saudi-backed governor Rajeh Bakrit, who is being accused of corruption.
” Free women of Mahrah have taken place in today’s demonstrations to express their popular rejection against the invading forces and their militias,” one of the women taking part in the mass rally said in an official statement.
In the protest, women raised banners demanding the departure of Saudi forces and denouncing the silence of exiled Hadi’s government over the Saudi tampering with the coasts, ports and lands of Mahrah.
During the protests, the committee organizing the Mahrah sit-in said that what is happening in every inch of Mahrah land is an attempt to break the unity and community cohesion of all directorates from the coast to the desert and from the west to the east of the Mahrah.
The statement added that the people from different directorates of Mahrah stand at the crossroads either to be united against violations, abuses and developments or to be waiting for to the day to regret our silence over the Saudi occupation.
According to the statement, “What is happening in in the districts of Masilah, Huswain,Sayhut, luasik area of Ghaydah is no different from what is happening in the rest of other district, military developments and building camps belonging to the Saudi occupation and its militias.
The statement stressed that Saudi occupation forces imposing restrictions on the people and fighting them in their livelihoods either by preventing the people from grazing in their areas or preventing them from fishing and creating military sites in the fishing areas.
The organizing committee has been calling for the departure of Saudi and Emirati forces and the rejection of the presence of militias in the province since 2018.
It stressed the primacy of national sovereignty over all the land of Mahrah, the delivery of land ports including cargo ports and Surifat, and seaports including the port of Nashton, the reopening of the International Airport of Al-Ghadea as a civilian airport and the departure of all Saudi forces that turned it into a military base and secret prisons.
E.M