Separatists in the stronghold of the Yemeni president .. fears of the exchange of roles between Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Al Jazeera Net-Aden

After a coup against the Yemeni government in Aden on the 10th of this month, the forces of the UAE-backed Transitional Council began to expand towards Abyan at dawn on Tuesday, besieging camps belonging to the legitimate government, prompting some analysts to believe that there is an exchange of roles between Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

According to Yemeni sources who spoke to Al Jazeera Net, the Transitional Council sent dozens of armored vehicles and military vehicles from Aden to Abyan, and tightened the siege on the military police camp in the Code region, which led to the depletion of ammunition and the fall of a number of wounded.

After more than 12 hours of clashes, the camp commander surrendered and left with some of his forces towards the area of ​​Lauder.

This coincided with violent clashes in different parts of the city of Zanzibar, where mediation by tribal and social parties in order to avoid fighting in the city from which Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi hails.

Security sources confirmed a number of deaths and injuries from both sides of the security belt and government forces, and two civilians were injured after the clashes in Zanzibar, one of them seriously.

The Transitional Council does not hesitate to show its willingness to expand around Aden Abyan.

On the other hand, the Minister of Information in the legitimate government published tweets on Twitter denouncing the coup of the Transitional Council in Aden and escalating it in the province of Abyan.

A spokesman for the Saudi-UAE alliance appeared to talk about the evacuation of the Transitional Council forces to a number of government positions, which denied the spokesman of the Transitional Council, which said that what falls within the understandings with the coalition to hand over some service facilities in Aden.

Exchange roles
Al-Jazeera Net spoke with an official in the legitimate government about the nature of the real role played by Saudi Arabia since the developments in Aden and the support provided by the UAE to the Transitional Council.He said that there is an exchange of roles unfortunately between the two countries leading the coalition and the Yemenis were counting on them to restore their state.

The official said that these roles were Abu Dhabi's public support for the Transitional Council, while the role of Riyadh in the declaration of rejection of the coup.

The government official pointed out that something is no longer understood by the Yemeni presidency and the government regarding the Saudi position. Riyadh apparently declares that it is with the government and calls for the withdrawal of the transitional council forces, but it is only silent about the escalation.

According to political analyst Yassin Tamimi in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that the development witnessed in Abyan clearly indicates that the separation plan is moving forward without stopping, and that there is an understanding between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, making the recent Saudi moves to face the coup "just strategic deception."

Saudi Arabia could have halted developments in Abyan, Tamimi said, but as in Aden, Saudi planes flew over the areas of engagement to suggest government forces were backed by the coalition, while the more prolonged, heavily armed Transitional Council backed by the "deceptive coalition" outperformed.

Yemeni observers believe that Saudi Arabia's call after the coup of Aden to dialogue between two equal parties in the legal force was aimed at building on the victory of the strongest party in the equation of war, the separatist party, by imposing concessions on the legitimate authority, similar to that provided by the same legitimacy to the Houthis after their coup In Sana'a on September 21, 2014.