Yemen Rejects Rebel’s Ceasefire Terms
OK here we go, English press release from the rebels:
To ensure that we stabilize the situation and calm it dowen, and to prevent bloodshed and restore security and return of displaced persons and war-affected to their homes and villages we offer an initiative to stop the war and declare it to be the opening the roads and raise the armed manifestations and return to what it was, and put this initiative on our part of the implementation phase Since its declaration.
We also recall that the success of this initiative, which we consider above all the differences,to a serious healing to this issue, depends on the response by the Authority, by announcing the end the war ,and prove it in reality.
This will be the step is for the benefit of its people and for the country, security and stability.
Press Office of Al- Sayed / Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din Al-Houthi
Ramdan 11, 1430
September 1 . 2009
Original post: Reports indicate that the Yemeni government rejected another truce offer by the rebels, “The so-called ceasefire initiative announced recently by the rebels offers nothing new,” said a spokesman for Yemen’s high security commission, which is supervising the operation.
This was the terms the rebels offered a week ago, from the Yemen Observer:
A group of al-Houthi relatives have submitted a message to the president on Wednesday consisting of eleven points which include the lifting of military checkpoints and the redeployment and return of military forces to their barracks, in return al-Houthis pledge to withdraw from the areas that they occupy and declare loyalty to the state, stipulating that the government should appoint directors as well as security and educational managers from al-Houthis. The memo also stated that al-Houthis should keep the Matarah and Naqah areas under their control, and that the army would withdraw its heavy military equipment from these two Houthi dominated areas and al-Houthis would return the areas back to the government within three years time. It also stipulated the release of war detainees and that al-Houthis should be free to teach their Zaidi faith….
