According to the coalition countries’ agenda, the rate of violations and crimes in areas controlled by the coalition and its loyal factions increased by 180% in June compared to May. These crimes included murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and torture that resulted in death, indicating the extent of the security breakdown.
Follow-up Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
The areas under coalition control experienced “about 160 acts of chaos and serious armed violations during June, resulting in at least 157 deaths and injuries, most of them civilians, and about 12 arbitrary abduction and arrest operations, 13-armed raid and robbery operations carried out by aggression gangs, and two cases of torture until death,” according to a report from the “Information Center in the Moral Guidance Department” affiliated with the Sana’a forces.
According to the report, five violations in Marib City resulted in the deaths and injuries of 41 people, while 29 violations and armed attacks in Shabwa Governorate resulted in 17 fatalities and 12 injuries, including the deaths of three people when a coalition faction’s military vehicle ran them over.
The Abyan province experienced “19 acts of disorder and armed violations, ranging from cutting off roads and looting of citizens to looting of government automobiles, and these violations led to the killing and injury of 22 persons, the majority of whom fell as a consequence of armed conflicts or explosive devices. Meanwhile, the Jabal Lahboush region saw the discovery of a citizen’s body. The report states that during cutting operations, a second citizen was slain, and his automobile was looted.
The report of the “Information Center in the Department of Moral Guidance”, affiliated to Sana’a, also indicated that there were “44 violations, including murder, armed assault, arbitrary detention and arrest, confiscation of rights, and torture to the point of death, resulting in 20 slain and injured, including two children, in Aden City. Twelve people were the targets of seven other arbitrary arrests and kidnappings in the province, including three wounded members of the Al-Sabiha tribe who were abducted from the hospital.
There were also “assaults on commercial shops and stalls belonging to citizens, which resulted in the owner of one of the stalls setting himself on fire” in Aden City. In Taiz, 16 people were killed and injured within 32 violations, including an incident in which one of the mercenaries threw a grenade in a popular market, killing and injuring six citizens,” the report added. Three crimes of kidnapping and two crimes of cutting off roads and looting were committed in the province, one of which was proven against a leader in the ranks of the mercenaries, while the other was recorded against an unknown person.
The center noted that within 14 violations, 15 people were killed and injured in the Lahj province, including six Africans and a citizen whose body was found slaughtered after being stoned to death. The province also experienced three instances of kidnapping and cutting off roads, one of which targeted Dr. Ali Ahmed Lutf Al-Zubairi, a professor at Sana’a University, as he passed through the Al-Habilain region after arriving from a medical trip via the airport in Aden, as well as the crime of burning a camp for the displaced. In the same context, smuggling dens contained mass graves of African migrants.
According to the report, there were eight violations in the province of Dhalea that resulted in 12 deaths and injuries. Also experienced were two crimes: kidnapping and the authority loyal to the coalition in the Snah district destroying 200 commercial shops owned by citizens and destroying the goods inside.
In the month of June 2023, the Center in the provinces of Hadramout and Al-Mahrah observed “two homicides and one kidnapping among six violations, and the province of Al-Mahrah also witnessed a crime of kidnapping and the cutting of internet cables.”
These statistics, according to the “Information Center in the Moral Guidance Department,” “only relate to what has been monitored and reported by multiple sources, and there are hundreds of violations and acts of chaos that have not been recorded, as they have become routine daily occurrences that are not reported, or because many of their victims can’t reach the media.”
“The increasing rate of crime, anarchy, and violence in the occupied areas confirms the state’s replacement by armed gangs that kill, pillage, and assault citizens without any accountability.” This has also been mirrored in the degree of social peace in these areas, where the frequency of intertribal conflict and confrontation has increased and resulted in scores of casualties, according to the center.
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