Islah militia carry out campaign to break up truck drivers’ sit-in in Ash Shamayatayn

TAIZ, June. 06 (YPA) – The Saudi-backed Islah militia in Taiz province, southwest of Yemen, carried out a military campaign in an attempt to break up the truck drivers’ sit-in in Ash Shamayatayn district of the province.

This came after dozens of the drivers organized the sit-in in protest against the crimes carried out by gangs backed by Saudi-led coalition forces in Tur Al-Baha area of Lahj province, south of Yemen.

Salah Al-Rahhal, a member of the Heavy and Medium Truck Drivers Syndicate, said that a military force of the “Fourth Brigade, Mountain Infantry” and the so-called “Taiz Axis” arrived at the sit-in in an attempt to remove the trucks and end the strike by force of arms.

He affirmed that the military force of the Islah militia threatened the protesters to run over them with military armored vehicles.

The forces of the Islah Party illegal impose large financial levies on truck drivers at military points, in where every truck pays approximately 300,000 riyals in levies starting from Aden until it reaches the city of Taiz on the pretext of supporting the fronts of the recruits, which doubles the suffering.

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