The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has implemented a "strategy of separation" across the Arab world, supporting separatist movements, warlords, and parallel military structures to fragment states rather than stabilize them. In Yemen, the UAE operated secret prisons, engaged in torture, and backed southern security forces, entrenching a de facto partition.
In Libya, a foreign jet, identified by UN experts as likely Emirati, bombed the Tajoura migrant center, killing 53 people, while the UAE supported Khalifa Haftar against the UN-recognized government, violating an arms embargo. In Sudan, the UAE supplied weapons, including thermobaric mortar shells, and funding to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), contributing to ethnic killings and drone strikes in Darfur. This policy, described by Jean-Pierre Filiu, aims to create a region of enclaves steerable through patronage and coercion, allowing the UAE to exert disproportionate influence. Historically, this approach echoes colonial strategies to prevent pan-Islamic unity. UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed views political Islam as a singular threat, leading him to undermine Islamist participation in democratic politics and support authoritarian regimes.
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