After acknowledging fighting it ... A leader of Yemeni reform: The UAE is responsible for targeting our leaders

Al-Jazeera Net - private

In the first reaction from the Yemeni Reform Party after the UAE acknowledged that it had fought the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen, an official source in the party’s media department held Abu Dhabi responsible for the assassinations, arrests, kidnappings and torture of a large number of Islah leaders and other parties and groups, which he said were not in line with the policies of Abu Dhabi, which I tried to implement in Yemen.

The source considered in an exclusive interview with Al-Jazeera Net that "the Emirati move is an official, documented and announced recognition in an official ceremony."

Regarding the future of the reform party's participation alongside the Saudi-Emirati alliance, the source said that the reform will remain with the Arab alliance and a pillar of the national alliance, to get rid of the coup and colonial attempts, and "Yemen will not accept the priesthood of the Imamate or a new colonizer."

The source, who requested not to be named, stressed that the UAE aimed to liquidate the leaders of the Islah Party and all the national leaders that prevented the UAE from implementing its colonial policies and translating them into occupying the Yemeni coasts, ports, and territories, so that it could extend its influence regionally and internationally by controlling international shipping routes in Bab Al-Mandab and disrupting Aden port and building military bases in the Yemeni islands as an occupying power, without legal justification by the legitimate government. "

The source stated that the UAE was betting on the assassination of the reform leaders and the rest of the national forces to pass its colonial project, but it faced a unified Yemeni national will that rejects the return of colonialism and the sale of homelands, and rejected and exposed its project that carries death and humiliation.

He pointed out that the UAE's support for shredding and fragmentation projects came within the strategy of facilitating the nibbling on the coasts, ports and Yemeni islands, feeding wars in the rest of the regions, striking the Yemeni army and preventing its progress in its war against coup and chaos.

UAE declaration
The UAE had admitted that it had fought the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen and described them as one of its enemies that targeted them in it, despite the frequent meetings between their leaders and Emirati officials and hosting some of their leaders in Abu Dhabi officially and announced in late 2018.

Issa bin Ablan Al Mazroui, Deputy Chief of Staff of the UAE Armed Forces, said that his country's forces were fighting three enemies at the same time: the Houthi coup, the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda and the State organization.

During an official celebration marking the return of the Emirati forces from Yemen, and in the presence of the leaders of the UAE, Al Mazrouei said that his country had recruited two hundred thousand soldiers in the areas he described as liberated, without indicating whether or not they were affiliated with the Yemeni army.

During the celebration, which was attended by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, he announced the transformation of the UAE into a new strategy in Yemen, after implementing more than 130,000 sorties and over 500,000 flying hours on the ground during the war years.

A real predicament
Regarding the position of the Islah party and its choice to continue alongside the coalition, despite the party's having real power on the ground, Nabeel al-Bakiri, head of the Bab al-Mandab Center for Regional Studies, says that the battle for reform today is no longer an alliance battle with the forces.

Al-Bakiri believes in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net that reform today is in a state of self-defense and for the country, and it is assumed that he presents himself in this way.

According to the same spokesman, the participation of Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the war was at the request of the legitimate government and not the demand for reform, and therefore the party in this battle is forced to fight in defense of its existence and the Yemenis.

He believed that Islah does so as the spearhead in the battle for which the Islah head is being targeted from the beginning, whether by the Houthi group or the Emirates, and both parties view the party as their common enemy, which puts the party in a serious dilemma.

Al-Bakiri reports that the continuation of the Reform Party in the ongoing war is the continuation of necessity and coercion, and that "there is no other field before him except to work outside this context in order to abandon the UAE and demand its expulsion from the coalition, after its exposure and explicit recognition that part of its participation in the Yemen war was aimed at targeting it" ".

The researcher believes that "there is no longer any justification for the silence of reform today, and the party bears responsibility in front of its members and in front of the Yemenis for this farce, and if it is unable to announce a clear and frank position regarding this battle, it may pay a high price in relation to its political and existential future as well."

According to the spokesman, Islah must announce its position during this particular stage, as it is part of the legitimate government that is supposed to deal with it in all seriousness, given that its members are Yemeni citizens and it is their responsibility to defend them.