Fadi Baoum: Southerners made a big mistake when they took part in war to defend Hadi, and UAE, Saudi…
ADEN, March 10 (YPA) – The head of the so-called Political Bureau of the Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation and Independence of the South, Fadi Baoum, has said that cessation of war is a humanitarian demand before talking about any political issues and he is against Saudi-Emirati interference in Yemen.
“The revolutionary movement takes on the Stockholm negotiations that it has not taken into account the participation of Southerners, who are a fundamental party and their Absence from those negotiations is unacceptable and represents exclusion for southerners, calling on everyone to understand that there can be no solution but solving the southern issue, which is mainly the main problem,” Baoum said during an interview with France 24 channel on Saturday.
He indicated that Southerners had “made a big mistake when they took part in war to defend Hadi, and that was a major calamity because the people of the southern provinces handed over their land to the so-called” legitimacy “that does not want anyone to share in making decisions.
Fadi Baoum described the Saudi-Emirati presence in those provinces as a stupid, dull and backward occupation.
He confirmed that the Saudi-Emirati occupation has ambitions in our land and it is the main cause of the destruction of the country, its blockade and looting of its assets and wealth, as well as acting with people arrogantly.
“They do not want to see Yemenis from south or north, above them but they want them to be least of them in everything,” he added.
The UAE controls Socotra and Aden, and Saudi Arabia controls Marhrah, while they split Hadhramout between them,” he said.
He further confirmed that officials in the exiled Hadi’s government “could not take any decision in the country while the whole of the South today is stalled, and UAE and Saudi Arabian occupations dominate its ports, airports, islands and sources of wealth and oil.
“Saudi Arabia brought six brigades of southern provinces to protect its borders from Ansarullah, and they send 1,200 soldiers to Mahrah to occupy it, which is about 1,200 kilometers away from the fighting areas, which is a major insult to the dignity of southerners and Yemenis,” he said.
“All that is offered to Southerners by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates with what they describe as assistance is from our oil and our money, so they give us our right and then we got harmed, it is immoral and indecent,” he added.
“We don’t need them and they have to lift their hands off our airports, ports and oil, and we don’t want anything from them,” he said.
He noted that “the South suffers under the occupation of severe service crises and non-disbursement of salaries while they spend their militias from the funds of Hadramawt and Shabwah oil, and there is no safety for the southern provinces as long as the UAE and Saudi Arabian still occupying o on our land.”
He said that he agreed with Ansarullah, that they do not want any foreign interference in their country.
He alos refuses that a Saudi or Emirati soldier came to govern southerners inside their land and in their country, while no southern Yemeni citizen can enter Saudi Arabia and the UAE, asserting that the Yemenis insist on sovereignty over their land and preserve their dignity.
E.M