Sale of weapons to unknown people threatens opponents of UAE on Socotra Island

SOCOTRA, Jun. 13 (YPA) -The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia has sold a quantity of weapons to unknown persons on Socotra Island.

According to military sources, the UAE-backed militias looted over 100 rifles of the type AK-47 and 40 boxes of ammunition, in addition to 23 anti-aircraft weapons from a camp of the 1st Marine Infantry Brigade,and sold them to unknown persons on the island, Almahriah TV reported.

According to the channel, the STC’s militia looted the weapons from one of the brigade’s battalions that had declared its loyalty to the STC, and imprisoned soldiers from Socotra because of their opposition to the sale of weapons.

Other sources suggested that the sale of weapons predicts the emergence of new terrorist groups on the island, which is occupied by Emirati forces.

These groups are likely to be used by the UAE to increase their hold over the island, and to suppress and displace the inhabitants of the island under the pretext of fighting terror, and showing their presence with the Zionist entity to “protect maritime navigation” in the Indian Ocean.

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