I don't think that many in the north acknowledge the southern issue.
That worries me the most.
But it was almost expected. I don't want to seem like a naive southerner that thinks that everything can be OK as long as Ali Saleh is out. No. It will take sincere and maybe even extreme measures to ensure that the southerners are respected and given their due.
I've hear a few tweeters argue that the capital shouldn't move from Sanaa to Aden. People have said that just because Aden has an ocean, it doesn't make it fit for a capital.
Why not? Is it because it's far away from any northern tribal control? Is it because the level of corruption hasn't reached to the level of corruption in the north? Is it because the weather there is so much better? Is it because it's had experience as a capital before? Is it because it's just too far damn south?
In fact, after all is said and done, it should be the first act to be completed to show faith in the south and in the people of the south. I mean, everything has been gradually taken away from them.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
The Southern Issue
I found this generic post a few times on facebook. I thought it was a relatively accurate and summed up description of the Southern Yemeni dilemma:
"The Southern Issue:
Is the issue of four million people living in the area of more than 333.000 km 2 in six provinces
It is an issue of the Independent State Member of the United Nations and Arab League, which gave up its membership in international institutions and the capital, "Aden" and its currency "dinar" to be in union with North Yemen, and establish a fair democratic state that can be a comprehensive Arab Union.
It is the issue of that State which was subjected to a cruel war in 94 resulted in the transfer of unity to annexation and causing waste of the Southern citizens’ rights and looting of land and wrongful termination of tens of thousands of civilian and military cadres and its institutions have been vandalized and its identity has been blurred, and it’s wealth plundered.
It is the issue of the people that poverty was for them the title of the post-disaster, "7 \ 7", which the Sana'a authority made a Holiday , while the day is a disaster for the South, the continuation of accusations of separatism and treason haunted to this day.!
Southern Movement:
Is a peaceful movement launched South Yemen, or what was formerly known as South Yemen Arab Republic or Democratic Republic. Before uniting the northern and southern halves
The first Southern movement was launched in 2007where some of the brass held demonstrations demanding their return to their military duties in the army after they were retired by the government of Yemen as a direct punishment because of their participation in the war of secession which President Ali Abdullah rejected the disengagement process requested by President Ali Salem white former President of South Yemen.
Since the start of military demonstrations there were many demonstrations in several southern provinces and sporadically and without any regulation or coordination or specific leaders, but was mostly an expression of policy of rejection, exclusion and marginalization practiced by the regime and the Yemeni government against the people of the south.
In the twenty-fourth of March 2007the Southern Movement have been officially launched by the associations of retired military personnel and their demands confined in the settlement of salary and rank, like their colleagues in the Yemeni army and claiming that they are working under the umbrella of a single state and there must be equality between everyone, but what happened was quite the opposite where the Yemeni government insisted on the marginalization of their demands and not pay them, forcing them to go out on demonstrations demanding to return to the pre-unity and to demand the return of State of the South ..
When the government chose to ignore some people and ignored their legitimate demands they also tried to stop the demonstrations by force and arrested some demonstrators in an attempt to stop the demonstrations by force and ending them, committing a terrible mistake as pouring fuel on a weak fire which could have easily been put out but instead they increased the suffering of the demonstrators instead of achieving their demands so their demands rose, instead of equality in the salary their demands are to split the state and return to the pre-unity which is the total demand that demonstrators want to achieve now in the south."
More information can be viewed on this pretty well documented video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yb2vxWjbH8
Is the issue of four million people living in the area of more than 333.000 km 2 in six provinces
It is an issue of the Independent State Member of the United Nations and Arab League, which gave up its membership in international institutions and the capital, "Aden" and its currency "dinar" to be in union with North Yemen, and establish a fair democratic state that can be a comprehensive Arab Union.
It is the issue of that State which was subjected to a cruel war in 94 resulted in the transfer of unity to annexation and causing waste of the Southern citizens’ rights and looting of land and wrongful termination of tens of thousands of civilian and military cadres and its institutions have been vandalized and its identity has been blurred, and it’s wealth plundered.
It is the issue of the people that poverty was for them the title of the post-disaster, "7 \ 7", which the Sana'a authority made a Holiday , while the day is a disaster for the South, the continuation of accusations of separatism and treason haunted to this day.!
Southern Movement:
Is a peaceful movement launched South Yemen, or what was formerly known as South Yemen Arab Republic or Democratic Republic. Before uniting the northern and southern halves
The first Southern movement was launched in 2007where some of the brass held demonstrations demanding their return to their military duties in the army after they were retired by the government of Yemen as a direct punishment because of their participation in the war of secession which President Ali Abdullah rejected the disengagement process requested by President Ali Salem white former President of South Yemen.
Since the start of military demonstrations there were many demonstrations in several southern provinces and sporadically and without any regulation or coordination or specific leaders, but was mostly an expression of policy of rejection, exclusion and marginalization practiced by the regime and the Yemeni government against the people of the south.
In the twenty-fourth of March 2007the Southern Movement have been officially launched by the associations of retired military personnel and their demands confined in the settlement of salary and rank, like their colleagues in the Yemeni army and claiming that they are working under the umbrella of a single state and there must be equality between everyone, but what happened was quite the opposite where the Yemeni government insisted on the marginalization of their demands and not pay them, forcing them to go out on demonstrations demanding to return to the pre-unity and to demand the return of State of the South ..
When the government chose to ignore some people and ignored their legitimate demands they also tried to stop the demonstrations by force and arrested some demonstrators in an attempt to stop the demonstrations by force and ending them, committing a terrible mistake as pouring fuel on a weak fire which could have easily been put out but instead they increased the suffering of the demonstrators instead of achieving their demands so their demands rose, instead of equality in the salary their demands are to split the state and return to the pre-unity which is the total demand that demonstrators want to achieve now in the south."
More information can be viewed on this pretty well documented video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yb2vxWjbH8
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