مشاعر الجنوبيين حول تقرير المصير .. كتابة القبطان محمد سيف جبران وارسلها الى جين نوفاك حيث قامت بنشره في موقعها الخاص ب جيوش التحرير
Southern sentiment 2: a right to self-determination
Filed under: Yemen — by Jane Novak at 12:06 pm on Monday, August 22, 2011
These are good portrayals of the logic behind southern rejection of the national council and what steps are necessary to form a cohesive alliance:
Dear, Jane Novak – the people of the south lost 1300 martyrs and thousands injured and thousands of southerners languished in prisons of the Yemeni occupation since the beginning of Southern peaceful movement in 2007 .. Southerners are sacrificing in order to restore their state, their home, their dignity, their freedom and their jobs. The unity between south and north died in 1994 when Saleh’s forces invaded the south.. The Southern are living on their land but they are strangers in, they do not participate in decision-making on their land .. The solution of the problem (Southern case) it is not an affiliation a group of people from the south to the Yemeni Council to legitimizes occupation of their land, but, the other party (Yemeni side) should recognize the right of southerners to self-determination ..
The country (Yemen) will return to the same scenario, a group of thieves in the service of the robbers, all belonging to the military tribe, unless a real solution for the Southern Case first of all , and the US Govt. quit financial support to Saleh’s regime who is using US aid money to strike peaceful southern movement in the South. from Mohamed Seif Gubran
Dear Jane, The key issue here that regime ignored unity treaties between the two countries since 1994. The bigger issue that the current revolution doesn’t accept or acknowledge that once upon a time there were a whole nation and country engaged peacefully in a unification that failed miserably at least in the eyes of the majority of Southerners. The new council just another facet of the same attitude and viewpoint towards the south’s main issues. To make matters worse, the unborn new regime or so called national council deepens the difference and creates further an atmosphere of mistrust in southerners eyes even those pro-unity, furthermore, makes us determined that all solutions from our brothers in the north are still coming from that same narrow angle of Saleh’s regime and ignorance.
The council and alliances should look at the root causes and engage in a civilized dialogue with their counterparts in the south (south movement) as opposed to propose superficial solutions and repeat Saleh’s old strategy that worsened the situation even more and helped to raise the demands to full peaceful secession which most of us feel is the right solution and many others join the call on a daily basis. The revolutionaries want to build the new Yemen, but forgetting completely what the current Yemen was made of prior to 1990 and there has been a revolution for years in the south against the regime which has hundreds of martyrs, thousands of wounded protesters and detainees.
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