[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A clothing salesman set fire to his body in a protest against abuses by the Saudi-led coalition’s local authorities in 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...
’s southern port city of Aden.
According to informed sources in the city, a citizen who owns a clothes stall poured petrol onto his body and set himself on fire in front of the local authorities building in Sheikh Othman in a protest against the confiscation of his goods by the municipality in the area.
Sources indicated the citizen has been taken to the hospital of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) amid reports that he had died.
The sources pointed out that the citizen reached a dead end with the authorities to recover his property.
The citizen does not have the funds in order to pay the royalties and levies imposed by the authorities loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), one of the sources said, adding that the citizen likely hails from the northern governorates.
The local authorities in Aden exhausted the lives of vendors and stall holders from the northern governorates by carrying out arbitrary campaigns against them and destroying their families’ livelihoods without taking into account the living conditions of citizens.