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An-Nida, translated by the YO:

Issue 96 – Wednesday March 28,
The corrupted committee
Two days ago there was an opportunity to discuss the existence of good intentions in favor of fighting corruption. The intention was not to realize the dangers of corruption, but rather a result of foreign pressures that linked assistance to Yemen with practical measures for fighting corruption and preventing it. For the past year our German friends have been sending their associates to help fight corruption, but have realized that the authorities do not wish to reform for the better. The Biddings law that was stopped by influential people in the parliament was praised by the Europeans, and the same law for fighting corruption was barely approved. Therefore the law of fighting corruption was issued as a result by international pressures. Last Sunday the Shura council nominated a list of 30 members from which the parliament had to elect 11 people to be members of the High Committee for Fighting Corruption. However the list that was presented shocked the majority of observers.

There is a confirmation of this being a sardonic game played by the authorities. The ruling system realizes that there is a defect in all joints of the system, but unfortunately they cannot be treated. By reading the list of nominees it will elucidate the absurdity of a clown being a role model for fighting against corruption. Also, it shows the absurdity of expecting a person to neglect the party that had nominated him to be a role model, in order to fight against corruption in the state institutions that had been giving him a very low income to live on. How can we talk about intentions to reform and fight corruption whilst there is a desire to consider that the state is the GPC and that the GPC is the state? When a person violates the modest bases of his profession and is highly praised for it how can he be trusted and be given the authorization to arrest and convict others? How can we convince the public that the ruling party is serious about fighting corruption? The good reputation and general trust of people is vital to help change this situation. Also to consider others as partners in developing the country are among the main factors for achieving national partnership, away from the political and partisan affiliation. To help change this situation it is upon the citizens of Yemen to support as well as represent the ruling party. Without this nothing can be improved.

Commission members implicated in corruption scandals

AS Yemeni politicians and citizens expressed disappointment after the Higher Anti-corruption Body was formed by the Shoura Council last Sunday.

They affirmed that the 30 elected persons would be capable to fight corruption, calling on the Shoura Council to reconsider the names.

The professor of political sciences in Sana’a University, Dr Abdullah al-Faqi called upon the parliament to amend the corruption laws and reconsider the elected names.

The senior leader of the Joint Meeting Parties, Ali al-Srari , criticized the elected board ,pointing out that it signified that majority of elected names are implicated in financial and political corruption .

Meanwhile, the assistant secretary general of Popular Forces Union, Mohammad al-Mutwakel wondered whether the government was serious to combat corruption.

He also considered forming a shadow body for combating corruption is advanced view.

MPs select 11 Shoura Council members for posts in the Anti-Corruption Authority

“The committee is partially biased and not formed within the national framework”, said the JMP press release.

Sana’a, NewsYemen

In a women session organized in Sana’a on Thursday by the Arab Sisters Forum for Human Rights (ASF) under the slogan “Activists Against Organized Violence”, Yemeni females have narrated their experiences with different forms of violence.

The researcher and author Arwa Othman, head of the Popular Heritage House, talked about violence of authorities, some sheikhs and people who mistreated her in the past. She said some people used to despise her for her unveiled face and because she shows some of her head hair.

Once, a 4-year girl told me “my sister in Islam veil your face”, said Arwa.

Othman also talked about her failed marriage experience and how some people used it a justification to abuse her. “No day passed without tears on my pillow,” said Othman. She said that her writings in opposition papers caused severe violence against her even by intellectuals as she called president Saleh, who was at that time touring the Arab countries to activate the Arab reform initiative, to start internal reform first.

“Violence of street is the most dangerous one that women face in Yemen, said Othman. “A madman once shouted at me to wear veil.”

She said that she also faced “electronic violence” as she received emails from Yemenis and Arabs attacking her. “They said that I was against Islam and veil,” she said.

Hanan al-Wadei, an employee in a Sweden organization near the Iranian embassy in Sana’a, narrated her story with the political security that arrested her days ago charging her of contacts with the Iranian embassy.

She confirmed that she has not any political interests, but she strongly blamed those people who stood watching “kidnappers” who drew her out of her car claiming they belong to political security and that they had orders to bring her, without any proof document.

Al-Wadei said she was taken by force to the Political Security Prison for no rational reason only for security claims that she had visited the Iranian embassy. “What is amazing is that the claims were denied by kidnappers themselves,” said al-Wadei, appealing to president Saleh to investigate her kidnapping.

The speakers in the meeting agreed that family violence is the first to be faced by women. Huda al-Attas, member of the Yemeni Intellectuals and Writers Union, described how her father wanted her to marry as she was still 12 years and then how she was assaulted by mosques’ preachers for writing an article in which she called “angels to play with children”.

Chairwoman of the Yemeni Female Journalists Without Chains, Tawakol Karman, said she could not find herself offended in “an offended country in general”. “ I have received many critical messages about alleged relations with American and about my parent’s remorse to get a girl like me” said Karman. “But many Yemeni men face more violence than women.”

She also reported the difficulties she faced when she tried to establish her organization. “An official in the Ministry of Information told me ‘we will not give you the permission just because you are Tawakol,” she said.

Head of the ASF, Amal Basha, said that some newspapers described her as “ woman of bad reputation, bad color and bad smell.”

She said that she suffered a lot since she started her education in Cairo in 1985. She criticized the anti-woman behavior of the Yemeni security organization.

AM: In another topic MP Mohammed al-Hazmi supported a call by MP Nabil Basha for postponing the festivities of bb governorate on the occasion of the unity days to the next year. MP Basha said his request comes because the sons of the governorate have not felt real accomplishments by the concerned ministries, adding that the ministers vista the governorate as tourists. Al-Hazmi said the executed projects are carried out the same way as preparation of quick meals.

Al-Jasheen is in Ibb. Speaking of al-Jasheen:

YT At last, the parliament could hit the nil on the head and come up with a very good fact-finding report on the plight of the al-Ja’ashin area in Ibb governorate. The area has been suffering at the hands of the oppressive influential council member Mohammed Ahmed Mansur.

The parliament report has caused controversy over the last few weeks, and some influential figures at parliament wanted to bury its clear condemnation of Mansur’s oppressive acts against his people. The report called for the firing of the Ibb governor who with Mansour, helped in the eviction and intimidation of more than 400 families in the Al-Ja’ashin district.

The parliament did a good job when it ordered the interior ministry, which has become very idle, to act swiftly to address the question of private jails that shame the history of modern Yemen. It is disgusting that in the 21st century some influential figures still have their own private jails, and it is also a clear infringement on the law and constitution.

The governor and local authority members of Ibb, as the parliament report pinpointed, should be held accountable for their failure to address the dilemma of the al-Ja’ashin people, being lenient with the influential Sheikh. Not only had they kept silent, they even stood by the oppressor and tried to justify his acts, for they considered the protest from the people of al-Ja’ashin in Sana’a a sort of politically motivated showdown.

Last Thursday, I read at the al-Motamar website that the governor of Ibb Ali al-Qaisi ordered that water supply to al-Ja’ashin which has been disrupted by Mansur to be returned. The man took this action just after the parliament report condemned his silence over the problem of al-Ja’ashin people. He previously said he knew about their problem just from the media and that no complaints have been addressed to him. Wow! Now, he knows and he admits that there is a problem. This is really ridiculous and he should be held accountable for these acts of irresponsibility. In fact, if our parliament functions as it should, a lot of mistakes and wrongdoings will be addressed.

Dr. Ali Mohammed Mujawar (Mugawwar) (Megwar)

Born in 1953 in Shabwah province in the former South Yemen

1981 BA in economic management from University of Algers, Algeria

1987 MS in economic management from Grenoble University France

1991 PhD in production management from Grenoble University France

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2001 Dean of Administrative sciences faculty, Aden university

- Dean of the faculty of economy, University of Aden.

- Member of the higher studies committee of Administrative sciences faculty, university of Aden.

1999 – 2000 Director general of Barah cement factory

1996 – 1999 Dean of the faculty of oil and minerals – Aden university

1994 – 1996 Head of business management section, faculty of economy, Aden university

1981 – 2006 Deputy general director of land transportation corporation in Shabwa

Government Ministerial Posts

1/2006 – 4/2007 Minister of Electricity

2003 – 2006 Minister of Fish Wealth.

Beyond his reputation of a self made academic and technocrat, and generally a decent and honest man, little known about his political views. His appointment may have been a bid to appease donors.

A JMP spokesman commented on the appointement, saying “We don’t expect that the new cabinet will make a difference because Yemeni cabinets don’t rule in the prevailing autocratic regime where all power is invested in the head of the state. The powers of cabinets in reality are limited, while cliques behind the scene who are close to the power centre have greater power and influence than formal cabinets and ministers”.

BaJammal remains in his capacity of Secretary General of the GPC:

“26sep.net”. H.E. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, issued today a republican decree to mandate Dr. Ali M. Mujawar for formation a new government portfolio posts.

President of the Republic posted a letter to Professor Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal expressing his thanks and appreciation for his role in the leadership of the government and his presidency for the Cabinet lineup for three successive terms.

The letter pointed out to the nature and embarrassing period which Yemen lives in, the letter indicates to the urgent need for all efforts to face all challenges and to overcome the difficulties and obstacles which hinder Yemen progress.

Bajamal will be appointed as a general secretary of the General People Congress as the letter shows.

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About 90% of suicide bombers in Iraq are foreigners with the vast majority from Yemen and North Africa. 90% of these foreign fighters go to Iraq via Syria. The State Department is warning…Syria. If Syria does close the borders, where are the Yemeni suicide bombers going to go? They won’t dissappear into thin air. It might be a good idea to start focusing on the souce of the suicide bombers, those in Yemen who facilitate their indocrination, training, documents, financing and transport, and later praise their deaths and the death of US troops.

Also more chlorine attacks in Iraq by “foreign fighters.” In 2005, the Yemeni military used chlorine gas as a weapon against Shiite rebels; in 2007, Yemeni jihaddists use chlorine gas in attacks in Iraq against US troops. Predictable. What are all the Salafi jihaddis currently networking in Sa’ada going to do after the Houthi rebellion is over, attack the Socialists? I don’t think so.

World Tribune:

WASHINGTON — A U.S. State Dept. official said about 90 percent of the suicide attackers in Iraq came from Syria.

“It has to stop,” said David Satterfield, the chief State Department adviser on Iraq.
Officials said that despite numerous appeals, Syria has failed to stop the flow of Sunni suicide bombers to Iraq. They said the lion’s share of suicide bombers were foreign Arab nationals who entered Syria and made their way to Iraq.

“They [suicide bombers] see Syria as a more accommodating country through which to transit across the border to come into Iraq to perpetrate their terror,” Satterfield.

Satterfield said the U.S. intelligence community has assessed that between 85 and 90 percent of suicide bombers in Iraq entered from Syria. In an address to the Washington Institute on March 27, Satterfield said 90 percent of suicide bombers in Iraq were foreigners.

Officials said North Africans and Yemenis comprised the largest element among the foreign suicide bombers. But they said Saudi nationals have become an increasing factor in the Sunni insurgency war in Iraq.

In his address, Satterfield again warned Syria to stop the flow of would-be suicide bombers and other insurgents to Iraq. He said Iraq and the United States have sought to stem the flow of insurgents from Syria to Iraq’s Al Anbar province.

“It has to stop,” Satterfield said. “It is not in Syria’s long term interests to let this violence continue. We and the Iraqi security forces have done our best. It is a long, long border.”

Over the last month, the Bush administration has resumed high-level contacts with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad. Officials said that during the March 10 meeting in Baghdad, the U.S. delegation accused Iran and Syria of interfering in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was expected to attend the next meeting that included Syria in April.

“We would hope that the Syrian government understands as well that its rhetoric for a peaceful and stable Iraq has to be matched by actions,” Satterfield said.

In Iraq, foreign suicide bombers coming from Syria have increasingly used chlorine in their attacks. On Wednesday, at least 15 Iraqi and U.S. soldiers were injured when suicide bombers detonated explosives on trucks that contained chlorine in the Anbar province.

517 people killed in the last week in Iraq.

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday asked the country’s electricity minister to form a new government, as international pressure builds on Yemen to introduce reforms, a government official said.

Saleh who issued a presidential decree asking Ali Mohammed Megawar to form a new cabinet, was re-elected in September.

“We expect new faces in the new cabinet,” an official told Reuters. “I do not think it would be announced before one week.”

It was not clear if the oil minister will remain in his post.

Analysts in Yemen said Saleh took this step to show the donors such as the World Bank that he was serious about political and economic reforms.

Yemen is a country facing substantial problems. It is one of the most undeveloped, poverty stricken countries globally. Basic services are scarce, and corruption is rampant. Half of Yemen’s 20 million citizens are under 15. High fertility rates and early marriage mean the population will double within decades. Oil, a mainstay of the economy, is rapidly depleting. Both illiteracy and unemployment are high. International donors and many within the Yemeni administration recognize the urgency of the issues facing the nation. However some governmental strategies are undermined from within the regime itself. Both water management and corruption mitigation efforts have been limited by the failure of ministries to coordinate among themselves.

Yemen is among the most water scarce nations globally. In rural areas where most Yemenis live, only 37% have access to clean water, and women often spend several hours daily procuring water. Potable water is available in 58% of urban areas, but supplies are erratic. Public water is piped into Taiz and some other urban centers once every forty days. Citizens pay for water from private wells, a burden considering the average annual income in Yemen is about only $500,

Water scarcity takes an enormous human toll. One in ten Yemeni children dies before their fifth birthday. Water borne diseases (diarrhea, typhoid and malaria) are the cause of half of those deaths. A 2005 Parliamentary report stated 75 percent of all Yemenis face health risks from dirty water. Water is also a flashpoint for violence. Taiz residents held street protests demanding water which resulted in clashes with security forces in 2006. A 2006 study by the Civic Democratic Initiatives Support Foundation found water related issues are a contributing factor in 80% of tribal disputes that result in violence.

As tragic as these figures are, the harsh reality is that water availability is diminishing at an exponential rate. Underground water levels are dropping by several meters each year. Contamination of ground water and haphazard well digging exacerbate the crisis. Water usage significantly exceeds replenishment of aquifers. Yemen may run out of water within decades. Urgent action is needed, and Yemen has devised an excellent water strategy. At a cost of $300 million dollars per year, donors include The World Bank, Germany and the Netherlands. However, the legislation has not been implemented since it was devised in 2005. Donors may withdraw financial support unless tangible results are forth coming.

One problem is the lack of coordination among governmental authorities. The seven percent of water used by households is controlled by the Water Ministry. 93% of all water is used for agriculture and its usage falls within the domain of the Ministry of Agriculture. In an interview with the Yemen Times, Yemen’s Minister of Water, Abdulrahman Alaryani, noted that the Ministry of Agriculture’s Investment Program for Public Management of Irrigation runs counter to the National Water Strategy, “They are still focusing on agricultural expansion and demand in land dependant on underground water and on building small dams whose economic potential is limited. Their concern with the rational usage of scarce water resources is rudimentary at best.” There are 80,000 artesian wells in Yemen, and the inability to effectively police the random digging of wells in Yemen was another issue Alaryani addressed.

Another urgent issue facing Yemen is rampant corruption. The Yemeni government has taken some important steps to combat corruption like signing on to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as well as issuing a new law controlling government tenders. A cabinet reshuffle in 2006 was a good step in establishing discipline within some ministries. However, the Civil Service Ministry, like the Water Ministry, is unable to fully implement a progressive plan without intergovernmental cooperation.

The Civil Service Ministry identified thirty thousand civil servants who receive more than one government salary. It devised a matrix of structural and organizational reforms to eliminate these “double dippers” as well as “ghost workers”. Once payroll lists have been cleaned up, the Ministry will authorize overdue pay raises. Doctors are threatening to strike if the raises are not forthcoming immediately. The Health Ministry has said the reforms are complete. However, an audit found that the doctors’ payroll list still contains the names of dead people, retired people, and some who are out of the country. Doctors’ frustration is growing as the raises are well past due; however the obstacle to the raises is the Health Ministry’s lack of compliance with the reform measures.

Irrational and contradictory policies arising from weak institutions and fragmented authority limit the effectiveness of administrative reform in Yemen. Programs that have been instituted to work in the long term interests of the Yemeni public will necessarily undermine centers of profiteering that are often associated with public power derived from the ruling party, tribal authority, security forces, and the military. A counter-weight in favor of reform has been achieved through the collaborative effort of those reformers within the administration, civil society, parliament, political parties, the media, public, local bodies and donor community. These progressives have already harnessed sufficient momentum to enact some authentic reform initiatives. However overcoming resistance to reform in Yemen remains a daily and urgent challenge.

CR, Nasheri:

Rahim al-Nashiri. [Graham and Nussbaum, 2004, pp. 59] Al-Nashiri is one of al-Qaeda’s top field commanders and was involved in an arms smuggling plot (see 1997) and the East African embassy bombings (see August 22-25 1998), in which his cousin was martyred (see August 7, 1998). He also organized the attack against the USS Sullivans (see January 3, 2000), and will be involved in the attacks against the USS Cole (see October 12, 2000) and the Limburg (see October 6, 2002). He will be arrested in the United Arab Emirates in November 2002. An al-Qaeda operative had identified a photo of al-Nashiri for the FBI in late 1998 (see August 22-25 1998). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 152-3]

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A suspect in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen said he was tortured into admitting responsibility for that attack and others, according to a hearing transcript the Pentagon released Friday.

Abd al Rahim Hussein Mohammed al Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian detainee held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied participating in the Cole attack.

Al Nashiri said he “was tortured into confession, and once he made a confession his captors were happy and they stopped questioning him,” according to a statement read at his hearing. “Also, the detainee states that he made up stories during the torture in order to get [it] to stop.”

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Defense Department would investigate al Nashiri’s torture allegation if the military was holding him at the time. If another agency was detaining him then, Whitman said that agency would be responsible for the investigation.

The transcript was the ninth the Pentagon has released since the combatant status review tribunals began this month for 14 detainees whom the CIA once secretly held.

The hearings will determine whether a detainee should be classified as an “enemy combatant.” If so, they then can be charged and tried under the military commissions law that President Bush signed in October.

Suicide bombers on a boat attacked the guided missile destroyer USS Cole on October 12, 2000, in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed and 39 injured.

The U.S. military’s summary of evidence against al Nashiri said an FBI source identified him as an important person in al Qaeda and “heard” he helped arrange the Cole bombing.

The evidence said al Nashiri bought a boat and explosives used in the Cole attack with his own money.

Al Nashiri said he is not a member of al Qaeda, according to the transcript. However, he said he knew those who bombed the Cole because he had business dealings with them in the fishing industry.

“He did not even hear about the USS Cole bombing until many hours after it had occurred and was surprised by the incident,” according to the transcript.

In the name of God the Most Merciful the Most Gracious
His Majesty King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques-
King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of the Arab Summit held in Riyadh
esteemed
Your Majesties and Highnesses kings, Presidents and Emirs, Sultans and Sheikhs of Arab
States present at the Arab summit in Riyadh
Respectable Secretary General of the Arab League Mr Amr Mousa, the esteemed
gentlemen.

Peace be upon you
I would like to congratulate you on behalf of the Southern Democratic Assembly (TAJ); the
southern political organisation that struggles peacefully for liberation of South Yemen from the
occupation of the northern Yemen, and strives for achieving the self-determination of the Arab
people in the south on the road of building a free and independent state … I warmly salute the
president of the summit and all kings, presidents, princes, sultans senates and Arab delegations
who are participating in the Arab Summit that is held in Riyadh during the period (-28 – March
29, 2007).

We are pleased to put on your table a number of facts relating to our cause and we hope that it
will be accessible and have your support as follows:
• The South of Arabia was granted its independence from the British colony on 30th
November 1967 after an occupation lasted 129 years (19th January 1839 – 30th November
1967). The independent state was established on all the southern land, which is 338,000
squared km, bordered from the east Oman Sultanate, Saudi Arabia from the north, Arab
Republic of Yemen from the Northwest, the Red Sea from the West and the Aden Gulf
and Arabian Sea from the south. It has declared the city of Aden as its capital and gained
a full membership of all regional and international organisations including the United
Nations and the Arab League which lasted till 1990.

• The National Front that received the independent was a branch of the Arab Nationalist
Movement took the initiative to call the new state Peoples Republic of South Yemen
and amended it to the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen. It was the intention of
the new state to achieve the comprehensive Arab unification due to the adoption of the
national and revolutionary ideology that was very popular during the 50s and the 60s
of the last century.

• On the 22nd 1990 the unification was declared between Peoples Republic
Democratic of Yemen with population of nearly 2 million according to the 1988’
census and Arab Republic of Yemen, covering an area of 160,000 square km with
the population nearly 12 million (there was no accurate census) with Sana’a city
as its capital. Bearing in mind that there was no referendum was conducted
amongst the people of South Yemen regarding the future of their country which
was a clear breach to the Aden’s convention of 30th November 1989.

• The new unified state has encountered many obstacles and conflicts due to the
different cultures, visions and means of building the modern state between the two
different political leaderships of the two countries. Consequently the conflict has
escalated to an extent, which made the president of the >Arab Republic of Yemen;
the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh declare on 27th April 1994 the unfair war, which
lasted for 2 months against the South of Yemen, which ended with the fall of
Aden and the full military occupation of the South in July 1994.

• Since July 1994 the people of South Yemen has been living under the northern
tribal and military occupation causing lots of suffering and hardship to the people
in the South.
The northern occupying authority has not been satisfied with plundering the
wealth and implementing exclusion and depravation policy against the southerners
but also it continues to practice aggression such as committing serious killings of
children, men and women. It has also committed various actions to forge the
historical and geographical facts and to omit the identity of the South.

• The regime of the dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh that has been leading Yemen since
1978 and occupying the south for 12 years has no intention to establish a modern
constitutional state. Instead he continues to exert his effort by setting up a
repressive and corrupt regime that is heavily used to eliminate political opponents
and violate human rights and freedom. This regime is very well known to have
provided safe havens for terrorists, exports terrorism and smuggles arms to
neighboring countries which contribute to a large scale in creating instability in
those countries. This regime continues to wreck the already fragile Yemeni
economy by counterfeiting the Yemeni currency (Riyals) and the foreign
currencies of neighboring and others countries, besides to spread chaos and
instability in all the countries around it, which prompts us to warn concerned
officials from the Arab and foreign countries and international bodies and
organisations to the dangers posed by the system of Sana‘a for the future of their
peoples and to the security and stability of the island and the Gulf and the entire
world.

• The Southern Democratic Assembly (TAJ) calls on our brothers in the Gulf
Cooperation Council to understand and support the southerner’s peaceful struggle
for freedom and we would like to take this opportunity to advise them not to fall
into the trap that the south has fallen in by giving the corrupt dictatorship regime a
chance to mess up the situation and the people of the Gulf States.

• TAJ would like to remind all participants in the Arab summit that any support
offered to the dictatorship regime in Sana’a led by Ali Abdullah Saleh will only be
used to enhance corruption, repression and increase the poverty and instability. At
the same time the terrorists’ activities also will be increased and the suffering of
our people will be prolonged.

• During the last 15 years, the occupation regime has proved that it is interested
only of the south’s land and wealth and has made all efforts to expose southern
people to exclusion and deprivation. They have been brought to a stage where it
can not be tolerated or incurred, as it made our land and our people as war booty,
and everyone brought to the brink of collapse and death. As a result of the
occupation regime’s practice, the southerners inside and outside the country, had
determined to expel the brutal northern Yemeni occupation and to restore their
independent and sovereign state on the borders of the south before 22nd May 1990,
according to the documents of the South Arabia’s independence from Britain in
November 1967.
We call your summit and your gratitude states to stand by the people of South Yemen in their
right to self-determination, liberation, and in restoring full sovereignty of an independent state;
therefore we would like to bring to your attention the following:

1. We consider the so-called unity, were the southern people had not the chance to give their
opinion or to participate in a referendum; that unity was finished after the northern
Yemeni war of the summer 1994. That war had ended with the occupation of southern
Yemen of which was destroyed by using rockets, artillery and aviation and the unity had
buried under the treads of tanks and feet hordes of the occupying armies from the north in
modern war lasted 67 days and resulted in the colonial occupation of the south. So since
July 7, 1994 the South is an occupied country and should apply on it all the international
conventions relating to the peoples and countries under occupation.

2. We do not acknowledge the northern occupation authority as a result of the 1994
summer’s war and we do not accept the occupation of the south. This occupation
practicing on our land and against our people sorts of oppression and persecution. Our
people are subject to political, ethnic and tribal exclusion. Also they are excluded from all
areas of life, including work and health services. ((the number of the southerners who
were forced to retire illegally are almost half a million officials and the proportion of
retirees from the city of Aden, the capital of the south alone compared to retirees in the
north and south alike is 55%)).The occupiers also falsify the history of the south and
eradicate its identity. They loot the wealth and sale the land and the property of the
southerners without any rights. The occupiers exercise physical oppression and
psychological murder against our people, in fact they commit crimes against humanity.
That is why, we do not recognise this regime, and we do not accept this disgraceful
situation. On the contrary all its practices only increase our determination to uphold the
right to prosecute those who are involved in the illegal acts in the appropriate time and
place.

3. . We call you to compel the occupying regime to implement the Security Council’s
resolutions 924 and 931, and force it to withdraw its military troops and governmental
organisations from the south, also to leave our people to determine their own destiny, and
restore their usurped and occupied territory and get their sovereignty, independence and
rights to live in a peace like all other peoples of the world. TAJ would like to and bring to
your attention the decision of the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council at its
51st session held on 4th – 5th June 1994 in Abha city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
which confirmed on “not imposing unity by force.”

4. We call you not to support the occupation regime in occupying our country and boycott it
economically and politically.

5. We inform all states, companies and investors to stop dealing with the northern Yemen
occupying regime as it has no rights to hold conventions, dispose of land and wealth of
south Yemen. Any dealing with Sana’a Regime only consecrates the occupation and
supports illegal contribution in looting the property and the wealth of the south. The
southerners will not be bound in implementating any agreements made by the northern
occupation regime.

6. . We call you to recognise the Southern Democratic Assembly (TAJ), which struggles
peacefully for ending the occupation. Our country undoubtedly is important geo-strategic
depth for the Arab States and the world. Our independent state will empower the security
and stability in the region in particular for Gulf Stets and the Arab League as well.
We appreciate your role in standing by the southern people and our occupied country, and we
will not forget your noble brotherly attitude towards our rightful cause and struggling for selfdetermination,
freedom and independence.

Our people are keen for freedom; they appeal and invite you to send a fact-finding commission to
verify of the situation directly and independently there.
At the end we would like to congratulate your summit, which is held on the blessing land of the
Two Holy Mosques, and wish you positive outcomes for the interests of the Gulf States people in
particular, our cause in the South, and the Arab world in general. God grants you success in
serving the nation.

WebPages: www.tajaden.org and www.soutalgnoub.com