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تاريخ التسجيل: 2010-11-11
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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.

V)The southern army resisted and fought 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.

VI)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, which require ceasing the war and returning to dialogues between the two sides to find the proper solutions for their problems, which was contained in the Arab states and Arab league positions, which have all emphasized the inadmissibility of the imposition of unity by force. After all this, and under the pressure of people protesting in Aden and other Southern cities demanding their leadership to announce the disengagement with the north, the southern leaders had nothing to do, but announcing it in 21/5/1994 after sixteen days of total war against the south. Whereas, northern forces continued moving towards Aden and other cities in the south, until they tightened siege on Aden and isolated it from other southern cities. The power stations was destroyed during the severe summer, and cities were bombed with artillery, missiles and aircraft. Furthermore, water supplies were cut off after controlling the headwaters in the neighboring province of Lahj. The invaders rejected all the efforts of the international and humanitarian organizations and also the resolutions of the Security Council to restart the water supplies located on outskirts of Aden, which were stopped by the invasive savage tribes. That made the people of Aden and surrounding areas digging wells by hand, and stand in queues in the sweltering summer while bombs and missiles are falling on their heads and Claim the lives of thousands of them.

VII)The humanitarian and living situation in Aden for its inhabitants became miserable under a barbaric and immoral siege. It was a humanitarian disaster because the houses, Mosques, and public buildings were full of displaced people who fled from areas ravaged by the invaders, and areas of combat zones on the outskirts of Aden. Thousands of people were killed by the fire of heavy artillery and missiles, and hospitals were unable to receive increasing number of wounded people and dead bodies. . In the face of this tragic situation, the southern leadership had no choice but to cease the fight and leave to neighboring countries to spare the blood of civilians which was shed by the invading savage tribes.

VIII)Aden was shocked on 7/7/1994 by the barbarian invasion of the northern forces and tribes, after the withdrawal of the southern army and its commanders. It was exposed to a moral and humanitarian disaster which it has never witnessed in its history, and only happened in the defining moments of human history, which has been handled by the memory of generations as the most hideous form in which human beings stripped of their humanity and values. The day of invading Aden brought to human mind the Mongol Tatar invasion of Baghdad, the capital of the Islamic caliphate in the seventh century and the destruction, looting and the burning of libraries, mosques and stores. The Sana'a invading hordes brought that dark image back on 7/7/1994, when they destroyed and looted all the physical and cultural elements of modern city, in a Hooligan scene that can never be forgotten by its people. Everything was stolen and robbed starting from schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, public facilities, and even embassies and consulates. What happened in Aden cannot be described. This city used to be in its long history, a center for intellectual enlightenment and civilization in all the region, when it embraced all comers from various parts of the globe and gave them security, love and knowledge without discrimination, and amongst them the northern revolutionaries and liberals, who fled from who fled from their tormentors the Imams of Sana'a, but the reward was inappropriate. What happened to Aden, also happened in other southern cities, but the impact was more painful for the Aden, because it gave everything to the Northerners during and after their revolution in the sixteenth of the century.

Second stage: The collapse of the legitimacy of the Unity and the eradication of its noble values (June, 1994 – January, 2006)

If the invading war of the south eradicated the legitimacy of the unity politically and legally, the attitude of Sana'a regime in the south after the war towards the southern people and their land, history, culture, and identity, has destroyed all the noble values and concepts of the unity as a national dream for them to a nightmare in their lives. In the name of the unity, the rights were confiscated, wealth was plundered, freedoms were violated, and dignities were trampled on the thresholds of the Northern regime and its prisons, until the pain and moan of the southerners became a betrayal to the unity which only exists in the pockets and accounts of the northern leaders and their followers. Therefore, this stage has taken two tracks, one is an organized destruction and looting of the south, the other is a rejection to the tyranny against the south.

First track: the destruction of the South:

Sana'a regime ,after the exclusion of its partner and the annexation of the south by force of arms, uncovered the truth about the concept of unity in its point of view which is extended to its Shea Imams ancestors, who considered the south a village or a branch to their Yemen mother land (particularly Sana'a). So, Sana'a regime took the following steps, after controlling the south by its army, tribes, and Mujahedeen on 7/7/1994:

I)The first step was to eliminate all the signed agreement with the south, including the constitution of the unity and the of Pledge and Accord in Amman, Jordan. The constitution was changed, and the ruling system was changed from collective governance (Presidency Council) to individual ruling system by the president who combined all the authorities, and is not subjected to any accountability or observation. In other words, the old system of the Arab Republic of Yemen (North) was replaced with unity system and constitution.

II) Demobilization of the southern army, which was seen as a threat to their regime, by displacing the top commanders of the army, redistributing and dispersing the army battalions in the northern army brigades. So as to succeed in this, they had to get rid of most of the southern officers by demobilizing them or force them stay home, without assigning any positions or military functions to them, and even without giving them any promotions or financial incentives. This was a preface to Refer them to retirement, when it was still capable to serve and qualified more the existed northern commanders, who are relatives to the president of Sana'a and from his tribe. By doing this he achieved what he intending from not merging the two armies during the transition period inorder to preserve as a tribal institution to ensure his survival in power and eliminate his opponents.

III)Eliminate and plunder all the southern institutions, and share as spoils of war, between the warlords from the ruling family, tribal leaders, and Mujahedeen. Then, demobilizing the employees of the institutions and force them stay homes even without getting paid. That’s not all, but they also sold some of them and distributed other productive and industrial institutions to their tribal, military, and most influential leaders, in the name of privatization, which was only confined to the south.

IV)The south placed under a tight military and security grip, by involving a large number of their army units in the south, and divide it into military zones. Within each area, military sectors were established, and the commander of this sector had the supreme authority on the whole region. He also got involved in the civil affairs and interrupted the people issues, instead of the judiciary. Also, through tribal arbitration that require what is called by northern tribes (adal), which is (cars, weapons, or money) given by the parties of the problem, to the military commander before even judging, other than the money paid to him and his soldiers. Thus, Southerners returned to the stage of the pre-state and even worse.

V)Because Sana'a regime realizes more than anyone else its illegitimate existence in the south so, its leaders tried by all illegal means to give themselves some legitimacy by seducing the people and pay them bribes, and sometimes using some southern individuals due to their neediness inorder to represent the southerners apparently.

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