YEMEN Press Agency

Saudi-backed forces launch crackdown campaign against STC in Shabwah

SHABWAH, Sept. 18 (YPA) – The Saudi-backed forces on Tuesday launched a campaign of crackdown and arrest against the Southern transitional militias, which funded by the United Arab of Emirates in Shabwah province, eastern Yemen.

The campaign coincided with the arrival of huge Saudi military vehicles to the provincial capital.

Local authorities loyal to Saudi-backed government in Shabwah arrested eight followers of STC militias, including a prominent leader, as they launched what they called a campaign to root out the UAE-backed militias(separatists).

Those involved in carrying out military ambushes against the exiled Hadi forces, which left human casualties in the ranks of Hadi gunmen in addition to the destruction its military and armored vehicles during the past two days.

The security committee, headed by the leader of the Al-Islah party, the governor of Hadi in Shabwah, revealed that it had distributed lists of the names of what it described as security wanted, but activists said the lists included journalists, activists and politicians in the province.

The campaign comes with extensive military preparations carried out by the Islah party to tighten its grip on the oil province of Shabwah, with the continued dispatch of military reinforcements from Marib and through the port of al- Wadiah coming from Saudi Arabia.

E.M