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| Eritrean Navy kills fisherman in Yemeni territorial waters | |
| 2023-07-15 | |
...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 fisherman was killed on Thursday 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 naval fire in Yemeni territorial waters in the Red Sea, shipping sources said. According to the sources, a gunboat belonging to the Eritrean Navy shot a Yemeni fisherman named Ibn al-Noussi al-Baydi, one of the sons of the village of Wahjah, Dhubab district, while he was fishing in Yemeni territorial waters, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool. Yemeni fishermen are subjected to repeated attacks by the Eritrean navy, which has resulted in the deaths and injures of fishermen, in addition to taking hundreds of Yemeni fishermen to Eritrean prisons and seizing their boats and equipment. The Eritrean forces also practice various types of torture against Yemeni fishermen in light of the silence of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and the complete inability of the government loyal to Saudi-led coalition to protect them. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 This is the Yemeni point of view. Eritrea has claimed for years that Yemeni fishermen (and some pearl divers) have been poaching in their waters. A check of the map, and the island locations, will show how contentious this poaching can be. |
| Posted by: Chaiger Henbane8193 2023-07-15 09:08 |