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Yemeni regime announced the war against the south by its president from Al-Sabeen square(Seventeenth Square) in Sana'a in 27/4/1994. Then, the military activities started in 5/5/1994, and the theatre of operations was on the southern land. Besides the Yemeni regime, northern tribes participated in the war in addition to, more than 20.000 Yemeni and Arab members of Al Qaeda who returned from Afghanistan, as stated officially later on. Also, Sana'a regime considered this as a holy and religious war against the enemies of Allah from infidels, atheists and communists, as they claimed. So, their scholars issued a fatwa , permits killing of Southerners, their women and children. The most prominent of these fatwas is that religious fatwa issued by Sheikh Abdul Wahab Al-Dailami, one of the sheiks and leaders of the Islamic Reform Party (Al Islah) and the full of that fatwa on the following link:

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A year after this fatwa, which led to invading to the south and resulted in killing (11.000) people, (20.000) wounded, and (20.000) displaced. Al Wathiqah Egyptian newspaper issued some responses to this fatwa from famous Muslim scholars of " Azhar Sharif " in 15 August,1995,. On the top of them were, Dr. Mohamed Sayed Tantawi who said: (Islam does not legitimate killing and displacement of innocent people and destruction of facilities), D. Selim Al-Awa: ( this fatwa led to a deprive of confidence and creditability of Muslim scholars), and Sheikh Al-Ghazali said: (this fatwa is far away from Islamic law and not based on any religious evidence).

(An image of the of the Egyptian Islamic scholars and thinkers responding to the fatwa of al-Dailami in Al-Wathiqa newspaper)

The southern army resisted and fought back against North Yemeni army and its tribal and Jihadist allies along the borders between the two sides, in a ferocious war lasted for over seventy days. Because of the dismemberment of the southern army between the north and the south, and lack of military readiness, the Sana'a-tribal-Jihadist coalition defeated the southern army and invaded the south land.

Sana'a regime rejected to all the Arab, regional and international mediations to cease the war, and refused to obey the Security Council resolutions number (321/334) for the year 1994.

T e x t of Security Council resolution number 924 issued on June 1, 1994


T e x t of Security Council resolution number 931 issued on June 29, 1994