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| 139 Yemeni fishermen abducted by Eritrean naval forces |
| 2022-08-29 |
| HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The General Authority for Fisheries in the Red Sea on Sunday condemned the kidnapping of 139 Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i fishermen by Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n navy pirates while they were fishing in Yemeni sea waters in the Red Sea. The authority stated in a statement today, Sunday, that the kidnapped fishermen are from Mocha district of Taiz province and al-Khokha district of Hodeidah province, among them 23 who were not even of legal age, all of whom were fishing in the territorial waters of the Republic of Yemen. The statement emphasised that the detained fishermen were taken to a camp on the Eritrean coast, and their property and fishing equipment, which are the only sources of livelihood for them and their families, were confiscated. In its statement, the authority denounced the continued silence of the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , its humanitarian organizations and the international community towards the criminal practices of Eritrean pirates against defenseless Yemeni fishermen. The authority called for urgent action to release the detained fishermen and their fishing equipment, and to work to stop all recurring criminal acts against all fishermen. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Fishing in Eritrean waters I bet. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-08-29 19:32 |