I’ve heard people recently tweeting about putting the differences aside from the north and the south and banding together in unison against Ali Abdullah Saleh and his family of thugs and to the common southerner that might be just too little, too late. Consider this scenario: you are a southerner living in Aden and you feel that you have been treated unfairly and in and unjust way by the government. You are peacefully protesting. Other people from around Aden empathize and peacefully protest with you. Five of them get shot dead. You turn to your brothers at the north, who you know are not being treated well either, to join you in your peaceful protests for changes in the regime and for justice. They ignore you and more of your friends get killed in peaceful protests. This same scenario goes on for four years and the death toll has risen to over 600 innocent people.
What do you think is going on in the mind of the common southerner as his plea for his brother in the north for help gets ignored? It’s a feeling of betrayal. It is a feeling that they weren’t really unified in our struggles but just unified in our borders. If your neighbors and brothers from the other side who are suffering as well do not stand up with you during your time of need, then who needs them? Secession was the only answer.
But one man in Tunisia burned himself and two dictators got overthrown by the people and…
So now when they average northerner says “well let’s band together and overthrow the regime as one voice, one Yemen in solidarity,” you will have to excuse the jubilation that comes from the southerner as the unification can be saved. But you will also have to excuse the southerners for being a little bit angry at the blood that had already been spilled from their side in the past four years.
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