Hidden History of Violence in Yemen: documentary traces political killings in country’s south conducted by Americans but directed by regional power

Nawal Al-Mahqafi’s relentless documentary American mercenaries hired provides confirmation of the accusations against the regional power. This journalist of Yemeni origin has solid experience, and has won three Emmy Awards in honor of her work on sex trafficking in Iraq and on the Covid crisis in Yemen.

In her documentary titled “The War in Yemen: Political Assassinations Funded,” Al-Mahqafi allows direct listening to the narration of American citizens, who are former soldiers, who directly participated in the assassination program. In their interventions, they confirm that they participated in the fight against the jihadists, and they are certain that they only did good deeds, and obeyed the orders coming from the regional power without saying a word.

Throughout the documentary, horrific webs are unmasked; The mercenaries were contracted through the security company “Spear Operations Group,” which is run by the Hungarian-Israeli Abraham Golan, thanks to his contacts with a Palestinian man, who became an advisor to the ruler of the regional power.

The journalist’s investigation includes a number of interviews and supporting documents, and benefited from the hard work carried out by the organization “Reprieve” and human rights activist Baraa Shaiban. It also included previous information that had been published by the American media outlet Buzzfeed in 2018. These data as a whole prove how the identities of most of the victims cannot in any way be linked to armed Islamic movements. Even if so, extrajudicial executions remain a clear violation of human rights, and are carried out outside any legal framework.

The documentary shows how these are by no means “collateral victims” and that it is a deliberate strategy to eliminate opponents of the regional power, even by going through an alliance with a number of jihadists hostile to the Muslim Brotherhood. The documentary mentioned specific names and details, in addition to strange coincidences, such as those that occurred between the assassination of Ahmed Al-Idrissi, a leader of the Southern Movement, who is known to have refused to hand over the port of Aden, which was under his control, and to transfer its administration to the regional power.