Between peace and surrender to Al-Houthi.. The south is firm and the north is dispersed
English - Tuesday 14 February 2023 الساعة 03:02 pm
Al-Mokha, NewsYemen, exclusive:
A member of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, Salem Thabet Al-Awlaki, warned against turning peace efforts with the Houthi group into a process of surrender to the group, in light of the ambiguity surrounding these efforts.
For weeks, extensive diplomatic moves by the United Nations have been taking place, with international and regional support, with the aim of reaching an expanded armistice agreement in Yemen, as an entry point towards negotiations to resolve the conflict that has been going on in the country for 8 years.
The most prominent of these moves is the mediation run by the Sultanate of Oman between the Houthi group on the one hand and Saudi Arabia and the international community on the other, without disclosing its details, which sparked controversy and speculation in Yemeni circles, amid deep fears that the Houthi group would obtain more concessions under the justifications of peace and ending the war.
These concerns about the secrecy and ambiguity of these moves prompted al-Awlaki to warn, through a post on his Facebook page, to talk about the existence of "a very big difference between peace with the Houthis and surrender to the Houthis."
The leader of the Transitional Council stressed, in his brief publication, that "the south in both cases is a red line," threatening to cross that by saying: "And whoever lies, try," in a clear warning message from the transitional government against exceeding the demands of the people of the south in preparing any upcoming political settlement.
Al-Awlaki's message was confirmed by the head of the executive body of the Transitional Council in Hadramout, Brigadier General Saeed Ahmed Al-Muhammadi, in a statement on Sunday in which he warned that "any solution, or any political process that does not meet the desires and aspirations of southerners to restore and build their state, will be doomed to failure, and will not be equal." value of the ink with which it was written.
The loud southern voice warning against exceeding its demands to restore its state within any political settlement that is being prepared behind the scenes, was not limited to the leaders of the Transitional Council, but has become the talk of southerners on social media, stressing that the final decision will be for those on the ground.
The preoccupation of southern circles with what is going on behind closed rooms and meetings under the efforts of "peace" with the Houthi group, has been completely absent among the elites and activists of the north on social media, due to the preoccupation with the renewed debate every year about "February 11" between those who see it as a revolution and those who accuse it of causing The fall of the state in the hands of the Houthi group.
And the matter did not stop at that this year, rather the division reached within the supporters of the "February 11 Revolution", after the authorities in Ma'rib canceled the artistic concert that was to be revived on this occasion by the foundation affiliated with the Brotherhood activist Tawakkol Karman, which launched a violent attack against the authorities. Marib and its governor, Sultan Al-Arada, member of the Presidential Leadership Council.
The matter turned into an arena of intense conflict on social media between the supporters of the two parties, in a scene that observers considered an embodiment of the state of diaspora and division that the north suffers from, the absurd battles waged by its elites, and ignoring the main battle against the Houthi group.
