Southern leader criticizes UAE colonial practices in South

SANAA, May 7 (YPA) – Head of the so-called “Southern Revolutionary Movement”, Hassan Ba’oum, on Monday strongly criticized the UAE colonial practices in the Yemeni southern provinces.

“The UAE has been occupying the south since it claimed liberating it,” Ba’oum said.

He considered the dispatch of military troops by the UAE to Socotra Island an aggression on the Yemeni territories and sovereignty.

“The UAE sees itself as the guardian of the south,” he said, calling on the free and honorable people of the south to confront it as an urgent national task.

Ba’oum warned the UAE, which he called a new occupier, not to test the southerners’ patience or persist in provoking them.

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