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The United Arab Emirates is funding politically motivated killings in Yemen, according to a BBC investigation.
The United Arab Emirates is intensifying conflicts between the government in Sana'a and militant groups in the country that have returned to the international spotlight due to Houthi attacks.
According to a whistleblower who spoke to BBC Arab Investigations, Emirati officers in Yemen used counter-terrorism expertise gained from American mercenaries to train locals to operate with a "lower" profile, causing a significant increase in political murders.
According to the BBC, although the goal of the American mercenaries was to neutralize the jihadist organizations al-Qaeda and ISIS in southern Yemen, the United Arab Emirates ended up recruiting former members of al-Qaeda for a security force to fight the Houthis and other factions. armed.
"The killing of politicians in Yemen, numbering more than 100 in the last 3 years, is one element of an ongoing bitter conflict that pits many international powers against each other in the Middle East's poorest country," he said. the British state network in its report.
Isaac Gilmore, a former US Marine who is now Spear's CEO, was one of several Americans who claim they were hired by the United Arab Emirates to carry out assassinations in Yemen.
According to him, the mission assigned to him ended in 2016. However, killings in southern Yemen continued, even with greater frequency, according to researchers at the human rights organization Reprieve.
The 160 murders investigated by the group were recorded in Yemen between 2015 and 2018 and, according to the investigation, only 23 of the 160 killed were suspected to be related to terrorism. All assassinations were carried out by detonating an improvised explosive device as a distraction and then using fire against the target.
The latest political assassination in Yemen is that of an imam who was killed by the same method last month, according to human rights lawyer Huda al-Sharari.
The government of the United Arab Emirates has rejected the revelations of the "BBC" investigation that it has carried out targeted killings of people unrelated to terrorism and calls the reports as false and baseless. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from "BBC"
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