Tribal bloc threatens to invade Aden, vows STC of reprisals

The so-called People’s Assembly in Shabwah province on Wednesday threatened to launch reprisals against the southern transitional Council militias, which funded by the United Arab Emirates in Aden and the rest of the southern provinces.

The Assembly, headed by Major General, Ahmad Musaeid Husayn, the chief of the January 1986 war, warned the STC militias of continuing further “crimes” demanding that they quickly stop the raids against the homes of Shabwah’s sons and release the detainees.

The assembly considered what the UAE-backed militias are doing represents a threat to the social fabric in the southern provinces, dismantling tribal ties and blowing up all calls for reconciliation and tolerance leading the people of the southern provinces towards dangerous retaliatory scenarios.

The threats launched by the assembly came after the STC’s militias from “Dhalea and Yafa’a” stormed the house of leader Nasser al-Nuba, one of Shabwah’s military figure and the most prominent founder of the Southern Movement against the “Afash” regime in 2007.

Shabwah and Dhalea provinces witnessed a historic tension that extended back to January 1986, when the forces of the two provinces engaged in a civil war imposed by power differences between the so-called “comrades in the Democratic Republic of Yemen” left thousands dead and wounded in one week.

This tension has affected the leadership of the Transitional Council militias , as the reprisals of the leaders involved in the looting of the lands of the sons of Shabwah and Abyan in Aden, including Saleh bin Farid al-Awlaqi after his defection from the STC, which constitutes the largest pillars of social figures in Shabwah.

E.M