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Saudi forces in Aden on Wednesday deployed hundreds of their troops and dozens of armoured vehicles in the vicinity of the coalition headquarters in al-Buraiqeh district, local sources said.
According to the sources, Saudi forces claimed that one of their officers in Aden was kidnapped in an attempt to find a justification for the southern military sit-in in front of the coalition headquarters in the same city.
Observers predicted that the Saudi military redeployment in Aden today would be a pre-emptive step to raid the tents of the soldiers set up in front of the gate of the coalition headquarters in Aden, after hundreds of retired southern military personnel joined the military demanding the payment of their salaries, which have been suspended for more than seven months.
Thousands of southern military personnel have been protesting in front of the coalition headquarters for more than a month amid the refusal of the coalition leadership to listen to them, as well as the disregard of Hadi’s government and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council,(STC), which claimed to stand with them, but the STC has retreated back after seizing 14 billion riyals it confiscated from the scarcity of money in mid-June.
Source: News Agencies
