Iran Press/Iran News: Hundreds of Members of the Yemeni community in Michigan province on Monday staged a rally to denounce the the United Arab Emirates targeting of the national army and to demand that the UAE stop supporting militias and tampering with Yemen.
The demonstrators carried banners denouncing the UAE regime's policy towards Yemen, calling for the expulsion of the UAE forces from the pro-legitimacy coalition, Pakistan News reported.
Thousands of Yemeni communities in New York, Washington, Germany, and Turkey carried out a similar demonstration to denounce the UAE's intervention.
In the Turkish city of Istanbul, members of the Yemeni community during a vigil on Sunday to denounce the crimes of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen prayed for the martyrdom of the national army who were martyred in the bombing of the UAE air force in the provinces of Aden and Abyan in southern Yemen.
The protesters denounced the airstrikes on the army, raising Yemeni flags and banners with anti-UAE slogans and the subversive roles of Mohammed bin Zayed in southern Yemen in support of separatist militias, and persistent attempts to divide Yemen.
Also on Saturday, members of the Yemeni community in Washington and New York, USA, held vigils in front of the White House and in front of the UN headquarters to denounce the crimes committed by the UAE against the national army. Chanting angry slogans including "O Bin Zayed, you are a liar, you are ISIS and terrorism."
Furthermore, in front of the UAE embassy in Berlin, the Yemeni community condemned the UAE's crimes in Yemen, its support for outlaw armed groups and demanded that the UAE be expelled from Yemen.
UAE warplanes targeted government forces in Aden and Abyan provinces, killing and wounding hundreds of army soldiers.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and United Arab Emirates, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 which has so far killed more than 60000Yemenis, injured tens of thousands of others, and displaced millions from their homes. Food shortages, medicine shortages and cholera epidemics have wreaked havoc in Yemen, mainly because of a Saudi-imposed total land, sea and air blockade of Yemen.
UN-led negotiations to establish a ceasefire in Yemen have been unsuccessful mainly because of Saudi Arabia's intransigence and refusal to end the war. 203/208
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