The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia has on Tuesday carried out a new displacement campaign against people coming from the northern Yemeni provinces and live in the city of Aden, southern Yemen.
Media sources confirmed that armed groups affiliated with the STC have arrested dozens of residents from the northern provinces at Al-Rabat checkpoint, located between the provinces of Lahj and Aden, while they were trying to return to their work to the city of Aden, after the Eid ul-Fitr holiday.
The sources indicated that the STC militants took the detained northern Yemenis to a secret prison on the outskirts of the city of Aden.
Observers said that the new displacement campaigns come as a challenge from the groups calling for secession to the decisions of Rashad al-Alimi, Head of the Riyadh-backed Presidential Council, who has recently begun sending former regime officials to the city of Aden in preparation for carrying out government positions at the expense of the STC leaders.
