Merchants close their shops in Aden

ADEN, OCt. 26 (YPA) -Merchants in the city of Aden on Tuesday closed their shops in protest against the arbitrary measures taken by armed gangs affiliated with the authorities of the Saudi-led coalition ” against them, especially imposing levies at gunpoint.

This comes one week after Taiz merchants closed their shops for the same reasons.

Local sources in Aden said that a large-scale strike was observed across areas under the control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militias in Sheikh Othman district.

In a joint statement, traders and owners of shops in Sheikh Othman district called on the people of the directorate to come out on Wednesday in demonstrations against the “Transitional Council” and the government affiliated with the coalition to protest the insane rise of royalties imposed on traders.

The statement also called on all owners of shops in the city of Aden, as well as their sons, to go on a comprehensive strike and civil disobedience, until lifting of the imposed levies.

The calls come, in light of the continued deterioration of living conditions in the Yemeni areas controlled by the US-Saudi aggression, with the collapse of the currency, the looting of wealth and the absence of any remedies to save the economy.

The Yemeni areas under the control of the Saudi-Emirati occupation are witnessing loud waves of popular protests, in rejection of the starvation policies practiced by the coalition against Yemenis.

However, citizens complain about the lack of response by the Saudi-backed government to the popular protests, despite the aggravation of the living crisis as a result of the deterioration of the local currency rate.

Citizens accuse the US-Saudi aggression of creating hunger in the occupied territories in order to facilitate the process of controlling the country without any confrontation, by adopting the policy of starvation, which is prohibited in international law and humanitarian norms.

 E.M