Sudan’s indictment of the UAE in the Security Council reveals the involvement of Yemenis… What is the relationship of the Transitional Council?!
Yemen Monitor/Sana’a/Exclusive:
A document submitted by the Sudanese Foreign Ministry to the UN Security Council has revealed that Yemenis are participating in the efforts of the United Arab Emirates to support the Rapid Support Forces that have been fighting a war against the government since April 2023.
The document, which Yemen Monitor has reviewed, is dated June 10 and was submitted to the UN Security Council on the arming and support of the UAE to the Rapid Support Forces. This coincides with the heated debate last Tuesday between Khartoum and Abu Dhabi in a session at the United Nations.
The document provides 41 pages of photographs that include a detailed description of the types of weapons and equipment seized, including their type and serial numbers. In addition to 6 passports of Emiratis and Yemenis that Sudan said it found in an Emirati vehicle between “Al-Garef” and “Umm Dom” areas in Khartoum.
In the preamble to the document, the letter of Harith Idris, the Sudanese ambassador to the Security Council, says: “It has been proven that all the seizures were sold to the Emirati army and then ended up in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.” This transfer of weapons constitutes a flagrant violation of international agreements and relevant UN Security Council resolutions, as well as bilateral arms sales agreements that prohibit such illegal transfers.
The Sudanese diplomat adds: “These weapons have played a central role in the brutal military operations carried out by the Rapid Support Forces, which have led to the commission of serious violations against civilians in Sudan, including heinous crimes and atrocities committed against women and children.”
Harith Idris said: “The documents also include copies of passports of Emirati and other nationalities that were seized on the battlefield, which is evidence confirming the extent of Emirati involvement in committing heinous crimes against the innocent in my country.”
– “A Yemeni passport belonging to a young man from Al-dhal’e Governorate was found on an Emirati vehicle in Khartoum”
One of the Yemeni passports shows a 33-year-old young man born in the southern Yemeni province of Dhamar, while the second passport shows a 34-year-old young man born in the Emirate of Dubai and belongs to “Al-Asahb” family, which also belongs to Al-dhal’e Governorate, which is the hometown of the President of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, Aidarous al-Zubaidi. The two passports were issued from the Emirate of Dubai in the same year 2018.
Abu Dhabi trains and finances the forces of the Southern Transitional Council, most of whom belong to Al-dhal’e and Lahj governorates, and controls several southern provinces of the country. It is not known whether these recruits are working as mercenaries for the UAE or as part of a force affiliated with the Transitional Council fighting in the ranks of the Rapid Support Forces.
-“A Yemeni passport belonging to a young man from the Al ashab family, which is from Al-dhal’e Governorate, was found on an Emirati vehicle in Khartoum”
Yemen Monitor was unable to reach the Yemeni government to comment on the Sudanese document, or the Southern Transitional Council to know its relationship to the two persons.
Hundreds of Rapid Support Forces mercenaries, under Emirati command, previously fought in battles against the Iranian-backed Houthis in southern and eastern Yemen during the first years of the war that has been going on for nine years. Abu Dhabi claims that it has fought al-Qaeda in southern Yemen, although press investigations have confirmed that UAE has recruited members of the terrorist organization to carry out assassinations in the ranks of the internationally recognized government.
On Tuesday, the Sudanese ambassador to the Security Council said: “The United Arab Emirates is a state that sponsors terrorism.”
UN sanctions monitors described the allegations that UAE provided military support to the Rapid Support Forces as “credible.” Although UAE has denied providing military support to either side of the conflict in Sudan.
Without naming any country, the UN Security Council last week adopted a resolution urging states to “refrain from external interference that seeks to inflame conflict and instability,” and reiterated its reminder to “member states that facilitate the transfer of arms and military materials to Darfur of their obligations to comply with arms embargo measures.”
