"The Loin of Transformations" .. Abyan is a victim of terrorism, polarization and opportunism
English - Thursday 08 September 2022 الساعة 09:51 am
Abyan, NewsYemen, private:
The bloody attack of Ahwar, at dawn on Tuesday, brought to the fore the ongoing battle that the Abyan governorate has been waging for more than a decade with terrorist organizations, as part of a scene of conflict and polarization that the governorate has been suffering from for decades.
Ahwar's attack came as the first response from the terrorist organizations to the "Arrows of the East" operation about two weeks ago by the southern forces to purify Abyan from it, after they succeeded in that in 2016, but the control of the forces loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood over large parts of Abyan in August 2019 revived Presence of terrorist organizations.
With the recurrence of the same scene in Shabwa, the presence and strength of terrorist organizations strengthened after they had a wide area of movement similar to the triangle of the districts of the central regions in Abyan with the neighboring districts of Shabwa in addition to the areas adjacent to Al Bayda.
According to this, Ahwar’s attack comes as a threatening message to the forces participating in Operation “Arrows of the East” to discourage them from any upcoming move to penetrate deep into the areas of Al-Qaeda’s deployment in the central districts (Al-Mahfad - Mudiyah - Al-Wadaya), after securing the coastal strip and spreading it in the city of Lawdar recently.
The presence of terrorist organizations in Abyan has a long history spanning more than two decades, turning the governorate into a battlefield and open battles against them, and their name has become associated with the term terrorism, instead of its name as a food basket and the loin of the south.
It is difficult to determine the reason for this long history of the presence of terrorist organizations in some areas of Abyan, but what can be asserted is a result of the state of conflict and polarization that the Abyan community has lived and experienced since before the year 90 until this moment, which resulted in a clear absence of the features of the state in the absence of its project and projects.
This absence made the tribal factor the driving force in managing the community in a haphazard manner with the dispersal of the tribe’s leadership and the absence of a general reference for the Abyan tribes, which created space for the presence of al-Qaeda elements in the mountains and valleys of Abyan, after the issue of accepting or rejecting this presence became subject to what the tribal community sees in every region.
This scene may seem strange given the fact that Abyan was present in long periods of modern history at the head of the pyramid of power and in a wide range of positions in the state, perhaps the most important of which was the ten-year rule of former President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the presence of Abyan through prominent leaders, most notably the former Minister of Interior Ahmed The facilitator and influential businessman Ahmed Al-Essa, deputy director of Hadi’s office
All these names and positions were only an embodiment of the most important dilemma that Abyan suffers from, which is the extent of the opportunism of its elite, which did not provide anything to its governorate, but rather contributed to deepening the state of conflict and polarization within it and turning it into a card in favor of local and regional political projects at the expense of its children.
The events of August 2019 embodied the most prominent example of this, after Abyan turned by its opportunist elite into the spearhead of the regional project led by the Brotherhood to strike the Arab coalition in Yemen in general and the south in particular.
Three years during which the pro-Brotherhood forces under the leadership of “Abina” remained stationed in the city of Shaqra in the face of the STC forces after their failure to storm the capital, Aden, while the governorate was suffering from two dangers. For workers in an international organization in early February of this year.
As for the second danger, it is still lurking in the governorate from the high mountains of Thara overlooking the city of Lawdar, deep in Abyan, represented by the Houthi militia, the arm of Iran, which is still looking at the same road it took in March 2015 and brought it across the coast of Abyan to the heart of the capital, Aden.
