Yemeni activists have monitored the systematic killings of Yemeni fishermen since the the UAE’s intervention in Yemen under the cover of the Arab coalition.
Yemeni social media activists said the UAE killed 194 Yemeni fishermen and wounded more than 165 others, while the UAE forces destroyed more than 11 landing centers and more than 393 boats.
The activists pointed out that these numbers are approximate and that the actual number may be much more than these.
With the increasing of Emirati crimes against the Yemenis and their capabilities, Yemeni activists launched a large-scale campaign calling for the expulsion of the UAE from the country’s coasts.
Yemeni officials say that since the start of its participation in the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia in 2015, the UAE is directing its ambitions towards the coasts of Yemen and the important waterway in the Red Sea.
The officials point out that the UAE has established military bases and deployed its naval ships along the coasts where the Yemenis hunt and has looted Yemen’s fish and marine wealth.
According to the officials, the UAE prevents Yemeni fishermen from fishing on the coasts of their country except at specific times and distances so that it is easy for them to loot Yemeni fish wealth and destroy coral reefs.
Yemeni activists on social media have expressed their anger that the Emirati forces prevented Yemeni fishermen from fishing in the Red and Arab Sea, demanding the UAE to leave Yemeni beaches, via the hashtag (#expel_UAE_from_our_coasts).
They point out that Abu Dhabi prevented Yemeni fishermen from fishing in the Red and Arab Sea of Yemen, in light of the presence of 8 UAE companies for overfishing.
Activists considered the torture and detention of fishermen an crime that is not subject to statute of limitations.
A number of Yemeni fishermen in the city of Shaheer in Al-Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout Governorate (eastern Yemen), organized a protest because they were prevented from fishing in the Arab Sea by the coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Yemeni officials have repeatedly accused the UAE of possessing a private interests agenda that violates Yemen’s sovereignty, away from the declared goals of the coalition, which is to support legitimacy and topple the Houthi coup, while Abu Dhabi denies the accusations.
Abu Dhabi says it has announced its withdrawal from Yemen, but observers see this as a way to absorb the growing anger of the West towards the violations it is committing in Yemen over the years of the war.
In parallel context, the editor of “Aden News” monitored tweets of Yemeni activists, during which they exposed the UAE crimes in looting Yemeni fish wealth and the systematic destruction of coral reefs.
