The peace movement and the Aden dialogue... between the unity of the south and the fragmentation of the north
English - Saturday 13 May 2023 الساعة 05:19 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, exclusive:
"The torn south unites...and the unified north is torn apart at all levels, including its social fabric," a brief comment by the young journalist, Faris Al-Hamiry, sums up the scene in Yemen in light of the recent developments that took place last week, especially the important political events that took place in the capital, Aden.
Last Monday, Aden witnessed the conclusion of the consultative meeting of the southern components and powers with the signing of the Southern National Charter, which includes several documents, the most important of which are: the political vision for the current stage, the foundations and controls for the upcoming political negotiation, and the draft foundations for building the next federal southern state.
The meeting also witnessed the conclusion of a number of southern entities announcing their joining the Southern Transitional Council, and hours later, the President of the Council, Aidaroos Al-Zubaidi, issued decisions to reconfigure the Presidency of the Council and its auxiliary bodies, and the leaders of these entities included in addition to the names of prominent southern military, political and tribal leaders. Eastern Province (Hadramout - Al-Mahrah - Shabwa) has the largest share in these appointments.
The important political developments represented a landmark event that redrawn the southern scene - as observers see it - and reflected the size of the change in the political and popular mood in the south, as a result of the fears that emerged in the south of the political settlement promoted by the United Nations and Western and regional powers to end the war in Yemen, and that the south would be the loser. The eldest in it, despite the price his sons paid in this war to achieve victory over the Iran-backed Houthi militia.
These concerns, according to observers, facilitated the task of the Transitional Council to unite the southern ranks under a unified vision, regarding the demand to restore the southern state in anticipation of any upcoming political settlement. This is clearly evident in the "soft" opposition that the STC faced in calling for the consultative meeting by its southern opponents through the contents of their declared statements against the meeting.
The contents of these statements appeared mostly as a procedural objection to the form and arrangements of the meeting and not against its contents and general objectives by imposing the south and its cause as a main party in any upcoming settlement to close the file of the war in Yemen, which reveals the size of the union in the south around a clear political project led by the transitional, and pushes the question about the reality in the north and options His anti-Houthi forces are in light of this southern scene, as the military analyst, Waddah Al-Obaly, wonders on his personal Facebook page.
Al-Obaly believes that the silence of the "Northern Resistance" and its acceptance of the narrow geography liberated from the geography of the North "means nothing but its sponsorship and supervision of the handing over of the country to the Houthi priesthood, which is the same handover with which the southerners complete the legitimacy of establishing their state, and gives them the right to do so," he said.
While the political activist Sadiq al-Qardai, head of the Ahfad al-Qardai movement, calls for respecting the decisions and aspirations of the people of the south, and focusing on saving the north, stressing the need for the north to support the south, he adds: Therefore, our need for the south and military force is more than their need for us.
Al-Qardai sees in the scene of the union of the south and its strength an opportunity to liberate the north, warning against wasting this opportunity just as previous opportunities and the generous support provided by the Arab coalition at the beginning of the war were lost, stressing that "the opportunities that are still available today will not be available tomorrow."
