Brigadier General Tariq's visit to Taiz...and the north's need to experience reconciliation and tolerance

English - Saturday 04 March 2023 الساعة 08:28 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, Exclusive:

From inside the temporary building of the local authority in Taiz, a member of the Presidential Leadership Council, Brigadier General Tariq Muhammad Abdullah Saleh, chaired a meeting of the governorate's civil, military and security leaders on Wednesday, in an event that no one would have expected a year ago.

The event reflects the peak of the changes experienced by the political scene in the anti-Houthi camp since the announcement of the formation of the Presidential Leadership Council in April of last year, and ended the rule of former President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, which was characterized by a state of permanent conflict within this camp.

The state of conflict that characterized the Hadi period as a result of the policy of fabricating absurd battles by the decision-making system, after 7 years of war, led to the division of the military and political scene in Yemen between a liberated south and a north under Houthi control, with the exception of some districts in Marib, Taiz and Al-Hodeidah.

An outcome that reveals the price the north paid for these futile battles by squandering all opportunities to liberate it from the grip of the Houthi militia, as happened with the south, and this price multiplies with the increasing talk of peace, ending the war, and the failure of the military option since the announcement of the formation of the Presidential Council.

The talk or trend towards searching for a political settlement to close the war file in Yemen pushes the scene in the south to be strict in imposing its cause and demanding its restoration of its state, benefiting from the success of its military resistance in liberation first and the imposition of security later, and the political success it achieved with the presence of a political bearer for this issue represented by the Transitional Council  Southern, which has become a difficult figure in the scene.

The uproar caused by the statements of the President of the Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, on the southern issue reflected the state of excessive strictness by the elites of the south towards the issue, and resembled a clear warning message to all local, regional and international parties against trying to bypass it in any settlement that is being prepared to end the war in Yemen.

The state of unity in the south towards a cause and clear demands, matched by the sinking of the north and its elites in a state of dispersion and loss in side battles instead of the main battle against the Houthi militia, and even the resumption of old battles that no longer have value at the present time, as happens every year with the anniversary of the events of 2011 AD, between  Its supporters assert that it is a "revolution". 

In February of each year, the most prominent forces in the north, namely the Brotherhood and supporters of former President Saleh, line up behind this controversy, during which the two sides exchange old accusations of the other's responsibility for allying with the Houthi group and causing the fall of the state in the hands of the group in 2014.

The state of debate among the elites of the North about the events of 2011 , recalls the importance of what the Southern Movement did after its launch in 2007 , represented by forums for reconciliation and tolerance with the aim of overcoming the effects of the events of January 13, 1986 , which represented a political and social rift, which made it a challenge to any southern movement under the banner of the Southern Cause.

This experience in the south, the north is today required to benefit from, in light of the ease of the task in the north, given the great difference between what was left of the events of January 13, 1986 and the events of February 11, 2011 , but today it has become more urgent to unify the battle in the north, as the repercussions left by the war of 94  against the south  It outweighs what was left behind and left behind by al-Houthi remaining in the north, the south and the region.