Adenis demand the restart of southern media institutions
English - Saturday 05 June 2021 الساعة 11:50 am
Aden, NewsYemen:
Aden journalists and citizens demanded the restoration and operation of southern media institutions, especially Aden Radio and Television.
The media, Maarouf Salem Bamarhool, said in a publication, "In the beginning, the old buildings should be restored and the weak leaders who presided over them since July 7, 1994 and practiced forms of tampering, terrible corruption, abuse, repression, exclusion, marginalization, and assassination of the most efficient, honorable, noble and most honest media professionals, pain, destruction, and oppression. The loss and sale of the nation's memory, Aden's political, cultural, artistic and sports history, the largest cultural and artistic wealth, Aden TV's documentary and programmatic library tapes.
Earlier, Yaslam Matar, head of the Aden Radio Sector, told The Independent Arabic that the reasons for the suspension were “the war that erupted in the city of Tawahi, which is affiliated with Aden, as the radio transmission tower was bombed, which led to the suspension of broadcasting, which has not been addressed until today. The studios were vandalized and looted by vandals, who took advantage of the void left by the war to loot the headquarters.
He added, the radio had a great and very difficult responsibility during the war, as the city of Aden had been dismembered after the militias took control of part of it, and moving between one city to another became a kind of risk, and the staff and technicians from the work crews were unable to continue with us in recent days, because they They were exposed to dangers that some of them almost lost their lives by Houthi snipers, especially when the Houthi entered the city of Tawahi where Aden Radio is located, which was considered a strategic victory for the group at the time.
He stressed, "Our work became more complicated and became very difficult, and the number of crew members gradually decreased with the ferocity of the war, until the matter reached us in the last days of the war to work with one sound engineer and only two announcers, the TV presenter Roy Ismat, and Mona Al Majidi, an employee under training, and it was done Recording news and programs on the radio with this crew.
In the context, Yeslam indicated that the Ministry of Information seems not convinced of the importance of the message performed by the local official media, as it will only take them one or two weeks for media institutions to return to their activities if they want from inside the capital, Aden.
In January of this year, Aden Radio and Television employees staged a protest in front of Al-Ma’ashiq Palace, demanding the reopening of this ancient media edifice and the re-broadcasting that was closed after the Houthi terrorist militia invaded Aden in 2015.
It is worth mentioning that Aden Radio and Television Corporation is one of the oldest Arab media institutions and the first on the level of the Arabian Peninsula.
