Southern activists pledge not to abandon blood of those killed, injured in Ashal’s demonstration in Aden

ADEN, Aug. 05 (YPA) – A number of people from the southern provinces pledged not to spare the blood of those who were killed and wounded by the bullets of the UAE-backed factions during Saturday’s peaceful demonstration, demanding the revelation of the fate of the kidnapped Lieutenant Colonel Ali Ashal Al-Jaadani in the city of Aden.

Human rights activists from the south circulated on social media a picture of one of the dead who was shot by Southern Transitional Council (STC) factions Saturday called “Muhammad Dabban Al-Kazmi,” with the caption “Your blood will not be in vain.”

This comes amid demands to reveal those involved in the incident of shooting at demonstrators in the Ashal million-man demonstration.

The activists considered the blood that was shed in the parade ground in the Khor Maksar area as the first spark for the launch of the southern uprising against the STC and the expulsion of the Saudi-led coalition from southern Yemen, as they said.

The participants in the demonstration, which was called for by the sheikhs of the tribes of the southern provinces to show solidarity with the sheikhs of the Jaadna tribe and the Abyan tribes, were subjected to excessive repression with live bullets and arrest by STC militants.

The violations and excessive attacks on civilian demonstrators by STC militants were met with widespread condemnation from the southern components and forces.

Earlier on Sunday, the STC released a number of abductees and detained some of them, including Badr Al-Mahouri, Emad Al-Dahimi, and Walid Al-Idrissi.

For its part, the preparatory committee of the Ashal million-man demonstration called in a statement yesterday, Saturday, on the pro-coalition parties in the “Leadership Council” and the STC to release the kidnapped Ali Ashal al-Jaadani urgently and to reveal the fate of the other kidnapped and forcibly disappeared persons.

YPA