Report: 2307 southerners loyal to coalition killed, injured in Yemen’s west coast battles

SANAA, Feb. 6 (YPA) –  The death toll from youth of Yemen southern provinces reached in January 2018 to 1940 dead and 367 injured in the west coast front, which is witnessing fierce fighting between the Yemeni army and troops loyal to Saudi-led coalition.

All of the dead and wounded are from the southern province and recruits of the so-called First Brigade – Amaleqa led by Raed al-Yafe’I, according to military officials in the southern port city of Aden .

The officials accused the coalition’s leadership of complicity with Yemeni military leaders and officials in order to push the sons of the south into the hell of losing battles, despite  their lack of experience in fighting.

Saudi Arabia has lured hundreds of young people from southern provinces to violent fighting fronts.

In 2016, Saudi Arabia sent about 5,000 Yemeni conscripts from the southern provinces through the port of Aden to the Eritrean port of Assab to join camps and military bases established there, where they were then transferred to the border fronts.

South Yemeni families have appealed to the Riyadh-based resigned  president Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi several times since last year to seek the release of their detained sons in Saudi Arabia for refusing to fight on the border fronts against the Yemeni army.

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