Armies of Liberation

I love a good gif, these courtsey of Eagelspeak. Apparently this is the normal route for these size ships which are staying closer to the maritime security zone. But I had no idea that it was all pretty much off the coast of Yemen, not Somalia:

And another, UN free content:

This (UNOSAT) 3D perspective map illustrates the relative spatial density of reported pirate incidents in the Gulf of Aden for 2008 (current as of 21 November). Incidents that have occurred within 5km of the Maritime Security Patrol Area (MSPA) following implementation on 26 August 2008 are identified.

Al-Khaiwani was scheduled to speak on a panel called : Oblique Government Tactics that Impede a Free Arab Press when he was stopped at the airport. So this is one tactic: Not to let them travel. The rest of the Yemeni delegation has an impromptu sit-in in solidarity and none of them went. Its amazing how terrified the Yemeni government is of free speech. Poor al-Khaiwani gets targeted so much, he has his own category. The whole country is a giant prison.

SANA’A, NewsYemen

Yemeni National Security at the Sana’a International Airport on Sunday barred journalist AbdulKarim from heading for Cairo of Egypt to participate in a conference organized by the National Council for Human Rights in cooperation with the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner.

MP Shawqi al-Qadhi, lawyer Mohammad Naji Alaw, editor of al-Nida weekly Sami Ghalib, former chairman of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate AbdulBari Taher and rights activist Afra’a al-Hariri were also barred to leave with al-Khaiwani. They condemned this “illegal” demeanor and staged a sit-in at the airport for hours.

Rights activists said the airport security’s behavior was a violation of laws and constitution as al-Khaiwani has been pardoned by President Saleh and all convictions against him have been canceled.

A source in the National Security said that banning al-Khaiwani from travel was on a request of the Passports Department at the airport.

Head of Yemeni Lawyers Syndicate, Abdullah Rajeh, said nobody has the right to prevent al-Khaiwani from traveling after he was given an amnesty for all charges against him.

The Arab Sisters Forum has condemned this “aggressive” action against al-Khaiwani who has become free after the president’s pardon.

Update: Tacky, they corrected it without noting the correction: Three of the seven men involved in an attack against the US embassy in Yemen in September were graduates of the Yemeni rehabilitation programme.

But at least we know the story is what we thought it was.

Original Post:
What? BBC sez: Three of the seven men involved in an attack against the US embassy in Yemen in September were former Guantanamo detainees who had gone through the Yemeni rehabilitation programme.

That’s the first I heard of that, there were 13 returned from Gitmo prior to Hamden. Three of the embassy attackers were returnees from Iraq. I haven’t read anything about the embassy attackers having been repatriated from Gitmo. I’m so not in the mood to start matching up names. This is a clerical error, yes?

Security forces are finding it harder to block out the news in Sana’a than it is in Sa’ada or Dhalie, but they’re trying.

Security assaults NewsYemen editor and other journalists

Security personnel on Thursday assaulted the editor of NewsYemen AbdulSatar Bagash for taking pictures in a massive rally in Sana’a against the upcoming parliament elections.

Bagash said the security personnel have opened fire on him and beat him with sticks and took away his camera as he was taking pictures outside the Ministry of Justice.

Chief Editor of NewsYemen, Nabeel al-Sufi, said the attack on Bagash and other journalists over covering a public protest means that police have received direct orders to violently deal with journalists as enemies.

Al-Sufi has urged the Ministry of Information to compensate Bagash and to return the camera and pictures. “We do not ask for punishment against security personnel but they should be informed that the camera is not a gun and Yemen has a press law which prohibits violence with press like treachery against the country,” said al-Sufi.

The first deputy chairman of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, Saeed Thabet, and other journalists from al-Ayyam daily, Yemen Observer, New Yemen news website and the Women Journalists Without Chains were assaulted during covering the protest.

YJS and the Women Journalists Forum has condemned assaulting journalists and said such practices do harm Yemen’s image and provokes violence and hatred.

More on the Sana’a demo at Yemen Post

Confrontations between security forces and demonstrators affiliated with the opposing Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) left 23 protesters injured, three in serious condition, as protesters were attacked by governmental forces. Governmental sources were forced at times to shoot bullets to the air to disperse protesters from the scene.

Despite the fact that security forces were armed with batons and armed, they blocked all the roads leading to Al-Tahrir, the supposed congregation place for the protest. The JMP gathered nearly eighty thousand of their followers in the protest and called for boycotting the forthcoming parliamentary elections due to be conducted in April 2009.

Journalists were also attacked while covering the protest, as seven journalists were injured. A number of journalists reported that their cameras were damaged and were verbally threatened by security forces.

Opposition sources revealed that 24 of demonstrators were arrested. Hours later, they were released.

As they were denied access to the congregation place, demonstrators marched through the streets of the capital protesting what they called attempted rigging of elections and the illegitimacy of the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER).

Democracy is suicide for dictators, so they just pretend to reform, then they open fire. What I don’t understand is why so many others are playing along with the charade.

This is a nifty article: As dangerous as terrorism, the rise of autocratic dictatorship is a grave threat to world peace, writes Ayman El-Amir in al-Ahram

As the phenomenon gains momentum, with varying degrees of resistance in most parts of the world, countries where the transition to democracy has been stymied may begin to experience violent instability. Dictators who come to power under unusual circumstances tend to experience the delusion of being “men of destiny” and assume the mantra of “the father of the nation”. A dictator’s coterie, whose fortunes are linked to the ruler’s continuity in power, feed him with the megalomaniac sense that his perpetuity in power is the salvation of the nation. They also fabricate a multitude of enemies that he has to ward off in order to protect the nation. Problems abound, fuelling the sense that a sitting president has to continue in power until all problems are resolved, or until he passes from life. (Read on …)

Republican decree appoints Yemen ambassador to Canada

[04 December 2008]

SANA’A, Dec. 04 (Saba) – Republican decree No. 288 for the year 2008 issued on Thursday appointing Khaled Mahfoudh Bahah ambassador of Yemen to Canada.

SANA’A, NewsYemen

The Democracy Reporting International (DRI), in cooperation with the Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC), released on Wednesday a report comprehensively assessing the electoral framework of Yemen. The report highlighted some shortcomings in the electoral system in Yemen and offered recommendations in light of the current political crisis between the ruling part and opposition. Here is an excerpt of the report:
The 2009 Elections: A Potential Step Backwards?

Elections for the 301 seats in parliament as well as local elections for 21 governorate councils and the 333 district councils are scheduled for April 2009. A new electoral commission has been appointed and election preparations are already underway yet there is still no political agreement on the rules for the election. (Read on …)

Reuters

Blast kills two militants in Yemen-security source 27 Nov 2008 10:24:17 GMT
Source: Reuters
ADEN, Yemen, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Two Islamist militants were killed in a southern Yemeni province on Thursday when explosives they were carrying on a motorcycle blew up accidentally, a security source said.

The two men were planning to attack an unknown target in the province of Abyan, where the blast took place, the source said without giving further details.

Earlier this month four Yemeni soldiers and a civilian were killed in clashes between suspected militants and government forces in Abyan.

The government has sought to clamp down on Islamist militants since the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. cities in 2001.

Yemen has jailed scores of militants in connection with bombings of Western targets and clashes with authorities, but is still viewed in the West as a haven for militancy.

IOL

Sanaa, Yemen – Three people were killed and four wounded on Thursday when a bomb ripped through a minibus at a central bus station in Sanaa, a police official said.

“A bomb exploded on a minibus, killing three people and wounding four among the passengers,” the official said requesting anonymity.

The explosion took place at al-Hasba bus station.

The official said that police are investigating whether the bomb was a terrorist attack or motivated by tribal vengeance.

Sahwa Net

Several journalists and activists were attacked by Yemen’s security on Thursday while they were trying to cover a massive rally calling for a boycott of up-coming parliamentary elections.

During the protest, journalists including Saeed Thabit , the deputy chairman of the Yemeni Journalist Syndicate, Twakol Karman, chair of Women Journalists Without Borders organization, Abdul-Star Bajash , editing manager of News Yemen website , Abdu Aish , a correspondent of Aljazeera.net , and Saleh al-Soraimi, a correspondent of Sahwa Net , all were violated and beaten.

Furthermore, chairman of Teacher Syndicate Ahmed al-Rabhil along with dozens activists and opposition supporters were arrested. Over 20 protestors were wounded including four critically in the protest which was faced live bullets and batons.

An Interior Ministry official said the troops fired into the air to disperse the “illegal” demonstration in the capital San’a, but he refused to comment on any injuries. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. (Read on …)

not me, but wow! Look who I lost to:

BOBS: The 2008 Reporters Without Borders Prize was awarded by the jury to a pair of blogs.

Zeng Jinyan, the wife of an imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, and 4equality, a Persian blog that fights for women’s rights in Iran.

Placed under house arrest, Zeng Jinyan’s blog describes life under constant surveillance by the Chinese authorities.

“It’s a moving example of what people go through when someone is always watching what they are doing,” said Clothilde Le Coz, the Reporters Without Borders representative on the jury. “She is isolated at home raising a daughter with her husband in jail. Hopefully this award will raise her spirits.”

The Persian Weblog 4equality is working to gather 1 million signatures on a petition for increased women’s rights in Iran.

“This blog is an alternative media,” said Farnaz Seifi, the BOBs’ Persian-language jury member, adding that 48 people involved with the movement surrounding the blog landed in prison and that the Web site had been blocked by Iranian authorities a total of 17 times.

I agree with the judges completely, the two winners deserve it more than me, and furthermore they need the publicity and international support more than me. I have rights; my Chinese and Iranian co-finalists are fighting a bigger battle under much more dire circumstances, and really its an honor to be grouped in with them. Good job ladies.

Good. Now some follow-up, enforcement and updated laws would be nice.

Yemen intensifies measures on combating money laundering
Tuesday, 25-November-2008
Almotamar.net – The Central Bank of Yemen CBY has embarked on taking a bunch of additional monitoring and preventive measures and arrangements on financial, organisations and private federations aimed at fighting money laundering and financing terror and protection of the banking establishment in Yemen against any dubious financial activities.

A source at the CBY told almotamar.net Tuesday that taking those measures by the CBY comes after suspecting a number of cases concerning money laundering in some banking dealings between a number of financial establishments and foreign sides , indicating that the CBY has lately begun entrusted a number of specialised monitoring committees to make field visits and assess all banking and accountancy procedures of local financial establishments in order to asses extent of their commitment to controls issued by the State Security Council regarding money laundering. In addition the committees are to report to the Central bank by those establishments on any suspected banking dealings pertaining to individuals or entities banned for dealing with them on charges of funding terror or supporting suspicious activities.

According to the source the CBY has made a list of obligatory instructions directed to local banking establishments. These are part of measures for fighting money laundering and financing terror.

The source maintained that the Central Bank forces all banks to create unit for gathering information on money laundering operations and to appoint specialists in them in addition to forcing banks to conduct accurate investigations in all banking operations and dealings.

Good, maybe they will stop shooting protesters now.

Part of the problem is a lack of training and qualified leadership that is an outcome of nepotism.

Yemeni police officers lectured on weapons use in war and peace

SANA’A, Nov. 25 (Saba) – The Interior Ministry in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC on Tuesday concluded a training workshop for 30 police officers from nine governorates on the use of weapons in both war and peace.

The participants in the two-day workshop, held at the building of the Police Academy in Sana’a, were lectured on the international humanitarian laws that systematize the use of power during wars and in peace as well and explain how to protect persons.

Training officer of the Police Academy Ahmad Jandab hailed the ICRC’s support to such workshops that aim at provide policemen with knowledge about international laws.

Deputy Head of the ICRC’s mission in Yemen said that facilities offered by the Interior Ministry to the ICRC have enabled the ICRC to hold this workshop, confirming the readiness of the ICRC to organize more training workshops for Yemeni security personnel as a humanitarian responsibility.

AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s former driver held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to his home in Yemen, US media reported Tuesday.

Hamdan is expected to arrive in the Yemeni capital Sanaa in 48 hours, where he will serve the remainder of his sentence, The Washington Post reported.

A jury of six US military officers at a Guantanamo terrorism trial in August sentenced Hamdan to five years and six months in prison for supporting terrorism, which, taking into account time served, amounted to only an additional five months.

“The conditions of Hamdan’s release are that Yemen will hold him until Dec. 27 and will then let him go and continue to mitigate any threat he might pose to the United States and its allies,” the Post said, citing a senior diplomatic official speaking on the condition of anonymity because Hamdan is yet to arrive in Yemen.

The Pentagon refused to confirm the report.

“In general we don’t talk about transfers until they are completed,” Pentagon spokesman Mark Ballesteros told AFP.

Hamdan, a native of Yemen and about 40 years old, was picked up by US forces in Afghanistan in late 2001, and arrived at the Guantanamo prison in 2002.

Around 100 of the roughly 250 “war on terror” suspects held in Guantanamo are from Yemen. Washington has not reached an agreement with Sanaa that would allow US officials to send home more Yemeni prisoners.

“We have not had confidence that the Yemeni government would take the required measures to protect civilian population from the detainees once released,” another Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, told AFP.

Voter list amendment phase comes off

SANA’A, Nov.26 (Saba) – The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum SCER said that the phase of revision and amendment of the voter lists largely succeeded .

In this regard, the electoral subcommittees across the republic finished Tuesday evening the 15-day process.

The head of the Electoral Information and Awareness Division at the SCER Mr. Abdu Mohammed al-Janadi said the number of the newly registered voters reached 1.118.941 from both males and females according to the initial statistics, indicating that the field reports are still incoming to the SCER .

Mr. al-Janadi stressed that the numbers of new voters in the voters’ lists remarkably came in accordance with the estimates specified by the SCER’s statistical studies.

He pointed out that the invitation to boycott registration committees was a punctilio invitation and appeared only in media.

The number of stalled registration centers fell below the 100 centers during the last two days, al-Jundi said.

On the other side, head of the supervising committee in Saada province Mr. Ahmed al-Adwal mentioned that the numbers of new voters in the province reached 4873 male and female voters during.

He said all registration centers normally carried out their tasks except one center which was held up because of tribal disputes.

AB: The leaders of what was once the largest Muslim charity in the United States were found guilty of acting as a front for Palestinian militants in the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history….

“Today’s verdicts are important milestones in America’s efforts against financiers of terrorism,” Patrick Rowan, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement. “This prosecution demonstrates our resolve to ensure that humanitarian relief efforts are not used as a mechanism to disguise and enable support for terrorist groups.”

Over the past two months, the government has presented largely the same evidence hoping to prove that Holy Land was created in the late 1980s to gather donations from deep-pocketed American Muslims to support the then-newly formed Hamas movement resisting the Israeli occupation.

Hamas – a multi-faceted Islamist political, social and armed movement which now controls the Gaza Strip – was designated a terrorist organisation by the United States in 1995 and the trial centred over whether Holy Land continued to support the group after this point.

Prosecutors did not accuse the charity of directly financing or being involved in terrorist activity. Instead, they said humanitarian aid was used to promote Hamas and allow it to divert existing funds to militant activities.

Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’ political leader in Syria, is the brother of defendant Mufid Abdulqader, a top Holy Land fundraiser whose Palestinian band played at the charity’s events and now faces up to 55 years in jail.

The brother of defendant Shukri Abu Baker, Holy Land’s former chief executive, is Jamal Issa, former Hamas leader in Sudan and its current head in Yemen. Baker, the former chief executive of Holy Land, faces up to life in prison.

Sahwa Net – Fifteen civil society organizations staged on Tuesday a sit-in in solidarity with Saada war detainees, demanding to immediately release them.

This sit-in came among several activities aimed at refusing arrests inside the Political Security Organization in Sana’a illegally.

Lawmakers had stressed the importance of addressing the impacts of Saada war, appealing president Saleh to direct the concerned authorities to implant his past orders of releasing all political prisoners.

India suffers massive terror attack: nearly one hundred civilians dead, hundreds wounded, some hostages. Its been going on for six hours, and its not over yet. Nine coordinated attacks on hotels, and other public places including a children’s hospital using AK-s and grenades, not a suicide attack- no explosive vests etc. Extensive planning would have been required. Its a horrible, bloody, disgusting act. These jihaddis are extremely tyrannical, cold and imperialistic, and believe they have the right to kill anyone in order to impose their twisted world view on the world. Hopefully this is not the “sign” referenced in the al-Quds article. I didnt realize at the time the Nov. 09 statement (via a Yemeni former top AQ) came out that Al-Quds Al-Arabi is where Bin Laden chose to publish his original fatwa in 1996: “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places.”

FWIW, last year we reported Yemen based al-Qaeda possibly forging ties with jihaddists in Mumbai. 2007: DNA India MUMBAI: A recent intelligence assessment warned of a strong likelihood of Yemen-based terrorists infiltrating into Mumbai and Delhi. Security agencies are trying to figure out if a section of local Jehadis has managed to forge “ties” with operatives of senior Al Qaeda leaders in Yemen. Then there’s those missing students from a variety of countries including Yemen.

A piece that contains some of the names of the 59 southern leaders the regime has issued a warrent for and notes South Arabia is willing to cooperate with NATO:

The Winds & Waves of Change in South-West Arabia- by Ian Garner

The Key issues in Yemen are:-

1-The predictions of economic collapse in 2009 by many experts although some say in 2011.

2-The probable return of civil war (the sixth) in Sa’da in 09 although the Huthis have very recently announced heir acceptance of a federal or confederal structure.Sanaa will not accept a confederation.

3-The anti-parliamentary elections (April 09) hand grenades & riots (ongoing) in the South & the North e.g., Hajja.

4-The election of a Government on 1st Nov.08 in the South under the name of South Arabia (first used officially by the UK in 1959:The Federation of South Arabia) with central govt. troops watching-RPGs deterred and many of the troops were Southerners not keen on bloodshed.

A warrant of arrest for 59 prominent members of the South Arabia National Struggle-Movement-Hirak(reported by Mukalla Press net on 25 October 08). Charges include Sedition, Treason and Cesession.

The South Arabia movement relies upon Security Council Resolutions 924 and 931 of 1994 for renegotiating the unity accord. If the warrant is enforced it may lead to civil commotion.

5-Somali piracy in the Gulf of Aden with Yemen unable to handle challenges on the ground let alone at sea.

Yemen has only 2 vessels capable of reaching the deep waters.The previous Admiral,Ahmad al-Hasani,is in exile in London leading the Taj opposition organisation.

The fears of Yemen of the intervention of Nato and Russia in the Gulf of Aden was explained by the Saudi newspaper”al-Watan al-Saudia”on Sunday,22 Nov.08: Mukalla in Yemen is the Logistics port of the Somali pirates who pay Yemeni officials for information as confessed during negotiations for the release of the Saudi tanker.

Economic collapse will worsen the tensions and the anti-election campaign will intensify. NYMEX & Brent were below $50 a barrel (Nov.08) and Yemeni oil trades a lot lower (Yemen is not even part of OPEC).

The South Arabian Parliament of 352 Members(the National Council-al-Majlis al-Watani)will be named within 2 months and a confrontation is inevitable.

Recognition of South Arabia is expected e.g., by Kuwait.

South Arabia is willing to collaborate with NATO in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandab Strait(island of Perim-Mayyun) as international waters are subject to international protection, and South Arabia will respect the right of innocent passage. The Socotra archipelago was always administered from Aden as the British navy was well-equipped there followed by the Soviet.

Since the 1986 civil war in Aden the navy was grossly neglected.

Socotra is in fact closer to Pantuland in the Federation of Somalia and Berbera in Somaliland.

Conclusion:at this stage moral help is needed to persuade Sanaa not to take action that will precipitate a civil war.

Names of the leaders of the 59:-
Hasan Ahmad Ba’um(president elect)
Brigadier Nasir Ali al-Nuba
Ali Munassar Muhammad(who met the US & UK ambassadors in Aden clandestinely)
Husain Zaid bin Yahya
Advocate Yahya Ghalib al-Shu’aibi
Dr.Muhammad Ali al-Saqqaf(Sorbonne)
Muhammad Salim Akkush(former minister)
Ahmad Bamu’alim
Muhammad Tammah
Gamal abdul-Latif Obadi
Nasir al-Khabji
Salah al-Shanfara
Shallal Ali Shayi’
Ali al-Shayba Nasir
Shaikh Abdullah Hasan al-Nakhibi
Dr.Abduh al-Ma’tari
Qasim Othman al-Da’iri
Muhammad Sikkin
Nasir Thabit al-Awlaqi
Dr.Nasir Huwaidar
Fadi Hasan Ba’um

The wanted are members of the South Arabia Provisional Govt. and members of the Executive Committees of the 7 governorates of the South.

The roots of protest: Prior elections impact future polls

By: Jane Novak, also at the the Yemen Times

LAHJ, Nov. 22 — Voter registration committees triggered protests on Thursday that drew crowds estimated at hundreds of thousands. The registration process was launched November 11 in preparation for April’s Parliamentary election.

A teen was killed at a registration center in Radfan, Lahj on November 15 when police opened fire on protesters, an opposition MP said. Registration committees were forcibly ejected by residents in other southern towns. Radfan was the scene of four fatalities in September 2007 when security forces clashed with protesters. The year-long protest movement in the southern governorates culminated in the election of the Southern Liberation Council (SLC) on November 14, 2008. The SLC, purporting to represent hundreds of thousands of southern Yemenis, will boycott the election.

Yemen’s opposition party alliance, the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), is boycotting the registration process. The JMP claims the registration committees were illegally formed and favor the ruling General People’s Congress Party (GPC). Security officials said on Thursday that hampering the committees’ activities is a crime. Dozens of JMP activists were arrested during otherwise peaceful protests.

Authorities report several hundred thousand new voters or domicile changes have been recorded since the registration process began. The GPC said the election will be held as scheduled and alleges the JMP is instigating the protests out of weakness.

After Yemen’s 2006 presidential and local elections, European Union (EU) election observers recommended measures to build public confidence in the electoral process, but steps were never taken. Current unrest stems largely from diminished pubic faith in the impartiality and integrity of the electoral process. Protests are also a backlash to the heightened expectations generated by the 2006 campaigns. (Read on …)

via email, my questions:

1- What is the name of the new council? (In English and Arabic)

2- What is the purpose of the new council? What do you hope to achieve?

3- What is the council’s position on the upcoming parliamentary elections?

4- I understand 350 delegates elected the Cabinet (or council). Who elected the delegates? (How many people does the council speak for?)

5- What is the relationship between the council and the YSP socialist party, and with the JMP opposition party alliance? Is the council entirely separate from the parties?

1- The name is the highest provisional council for the leading of the liberation of the South.

2- The purpose of the new council is the liberation of the south peacefully and to restore the state of the south as it has been acknowledged by the regional and international institutions, in another words, to restore its position in the Arabic league and the united nation and the league of the Islamic countries.
restoring of the identity and dignity of the South and the democratic state, as a grantee for the human rights, protecting and saving the national wealth and potentials’ that have been devastated or looted by the Yemeni authorities since the invasion of the military forces of YAR on the 7th of July 1994.we, therefore call the international community and human rights organizations to bear their mission to support our people to achieve their human rights in particular the five permanent members of the UN AND ALSO WE, CALL OUR BROTHERS IN THE GULF STAES TO PROVIDE ALL NESSASERLY MEANS TOWARD THE LIBERATION OF THE SOUTH AS THE STABILITY OF THEIR STATES IS STREGHNTHENING THE STABILITY OF THE SOUTH AND THE INTEGRATION OF THE SOUTH WITH THEIR ASSEMBLY IS A MAIN FACTOR TO SECURE THE PEACE PROCESS IN THE REGION AND THE WORLD.

3- We are going to achieve furthermore, the unity of all southern peoples and rehabilitation of the economics and encouraging the social developments and securing the peace in the country and regional and international arena, that can allow the contribution of the local and international investors with securing the bilateral benefits based on the laws released therefore, We opposing and standing up against any sort of terrorizing and extremism and we will do all efforts to secure the accommodation of the civilizations.

4- These 350 delegates are elected first by the districts and governorates.
The council speaks for all the population in all governorates of the south.

5- regarding the relationship with YSP OR JMP, THERE IS NO ANY SORTE OF RELATIONSHIP,LINKS OR EXTENTION TO THEM, BECAUSE OUR GOALS ARE COMPLETELLY DIFFERENT FROM THEM, HOWEVER WE RESPCT THE FREEDOM OF THE PARTIES AND POLITICAL OR SOCIAL GANIZATIONS AND THEIR OPONIONS, BASED ON THE DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM OF THE PARTIES, THE ESSENCE OF OUR LIBERALVISION IS THE TERASPANCY AND DEMOCRACY AND THE RIGHTS FOR ALL SOUTHERN, REGARDLESS THEIR POLITICAL, SOCIAL OR RELEGIOUS BELIEVE, HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO EMPHISISE THAT, WE HAVE MEMBERS OF ALL FERGMENTATIONS FROM ALL POLITICAL OR SOCIAL PERSONALITIES THEY ARE LOYALIST TO THE GOALS WE ARE GOING TO ACHIEVE, BUT THE SOUTH IS OUR UNITED HOMELAND, REGARDLESS RACE GENDER OR RELEGION,EQUAALITY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

WE KEEP RESPECT TO THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH AND REASURE THEM THAT WE HAVE NOTHING AGAINST THEM, BUT WE WANT TO PUT AN END TO THE SUFFERING OF OUR SOUTHEREN PEOLES EXPERIENCED BY THE THE SYSTEM OF SANNA IN THE RECENT 14 YEARS.

Thanking you

Yours sincerely

Dr. Abdul Humid Shukri

Spokesman of the highest provisional council in the South

And Arabic

عزيزتي السيدة جين نوفاك

الموضوع : طلبكم

أولا وقبل كل شيء ، اسمحوا لي أن أتقدم بأطيب التحيات والشكر ، باسم المجلس الوطني الأعلىلتحرير واستعاده دوله الجنوب ،ذلك لاهتمامكم نحو تأسيس المجلس الأعلى المؤقت لقيادة مسيره التحرير واستعاده دوله الجنوب,المنتخب في 14 تشرين الثاني / نوفمبر2008 من قبل 350 مندوب يمثلون جميع محافظات الجنوب.

1 — وكما ذكرت اسم المجلس هو: المجلس الوطني الأعلى لتحرير واستعاده دوله الجنوب.

2 — الغرض من المجلس الجديد هو تحرير الجنوب سلميا لاستعادة دولة الجنوب, التي كانت محتفظ بها من جانب المؤسسات الإقليمية والدولية ، بكلمات أخرى، لاستعادة مكانتها في الجامعة العربية والأمم المتحدة وجامعة الدول العربية ورابطه العالم الإسلامي.
واستعادة هوية و كرامة الجنوب ودولتة الديمقراطية ، بوصفها صمام أمان لتأمين حقوق الإنسان في الجنوب عن طريق الحصول على استقلالها ، وحماية وإنقاذ الثروة الوطنية و قدراتها ‘التي دمرت و نهبت من قبل النظام العسكري اليمني، التي غزت الجنوب في السابع من تموز / يوليه 1994 والتي احتلت بالقوة.

ولذلك ، ندعو المجتمع الدولي ومنظمات حقوق الإنسان لتحمل مهماتها لدعم شعبنا ولحماية حقوقه الأنسانيه, ولا سيما الدول الخمس الدائمة العضوية في الأمم المتحدة, كما نطالب الأشقاء في دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي, لتقديم كل وسائل الدعم لشعبنا من أجل تحرير الجنوب, لكون تعزيز وتقويه استقرار دولهم, يكمن في استقرار الجنوب, والجنوب بتكامله مع مجلسهم يمثل عامل رئيسي لضمان عملية السلام والاستقرار في المنطقة والعالم.

3 – أننا ومن خلال مجلسنا,علاوة على ذلك ، نعمل على تعزيز وحمايه وحدةأبناء شعبنا في الجنوب, وإعادة تأهيل الاقتصاد وتشجيع التنميه الاجتماعية وتأمين السلام في البلادوالساحتين الدولية والإقليمية ، والذي من خلال استتبابه يمكن أن يسمح مساهمة المستثمرين المحليين والدوليين على قاعدة تأمين المصالح المتبادلة على أساس القوانين المنظمة لذلك.

ولذلك ، فأننا في المجلس نعارض ونقف ضد أي نوع من إلارهاب والتطرف ، وسوف نبذل كل الجهود لتأمين تعايش الحضارات.

4 – بخصوص المندوبين الذين حضروا اللقاءتم انتخاب 350 مندوبا اولا من المديريات ومن ثم المحافظات.

المجلس المؤقت الأعلى يعتبر صوت لتمثيل جميع السكان في جميع المحافظات من الجنوب.

5 — بشأن العلاقة مع الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني أو اللقاء المشترك JMP ، لا يوجد أي نوع لأي علاقة ، أو صلة EXTENTION لهم ، لأن أهدافنا مختلفة عن أهدافهم ، ولكننا نكن الاحترام (RESPCT) لكافه لأطراف السياسية والاجتماعية من منطلق ضماننا والتزاماتنا تجاه حرية الآراء، على أساس الديمقراطية،وتمثل الشفافية والديمقراطية جوهر عملنا,لضمان الحقوق لجميع أبناء شعبنا في الجنوب، بصرف النظر عن انتماءاتهم السياسية والاجتماعية أو الدينية()RELEGIOUS )، مع تأكيدنا لجميع التكوينات من جميع الشخصيات السياسية و الاجتماعية التي تقف معنا على عزمنا ودأبنا لتحقيق الأهداف تلك, لكون الجنوب الموحد وطن للجميع، بغض النظر عن العرق أو الجنس أو الدين RELEGION) )، فالمساواة والعدالة(EQUAALITY للجميع.

ونحب التأكيد هنا من أننا نكن كل محبه وأحترام للشعب في الشمال ونطمئنهم أن شعبناليس لديه شيء ضدهم ، لكننا نريد وضع حد ونهايه لمعاناة شعبناالتي يمر بها منذو 14 عاما, جرا احتلاله من قبل نظام صنعاء.

أرجو أن أكون قد أعطيتكم صورة واضحة في هذا البيان الإعلامي.
بما يشفي طلبكم.

شكرا كثير لمساعدتكم و أعمالكم المثابرة, لاستعادة حقوق الإنسان لشعبنا, الذي سيظل مدينا لكم بالاحترام ويتذكرها لما تبذلونه من جهود ، ونحن نرى أن من المهم جدا وحاسم لتوضيح قضية الجنوب أمام المجتمع الدولي ، على أساس أنها أضحت حقائق على الأرض لا يمكن تجاهلها، لكونها تمثل أهمية وضرورة لتأمين وحفظ السلام في المنطقة والعالم.

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