Only Choice for Yemenis in South, Armed Struggle Against US-Saudi Occupation
The 58th anniversary of the October 14 revolution against the British occupation in Yemen comes after seven years of Security chaos experienced by the people of the southern provinces in Yemen.
Since the entry of the US-Saudi troops to the city of Aden in the second half of 2015, and until this day, the assassination crimes claimed hundreds of military, security and politicians in the southern governorates, including 39 imams of mosques in the city of Aden.
The kidnapping, disappearance and enforced disappearance, in addition to crimes of display violations, occur openly in the city’s streets, amid the citizens’ inability to stop them.
Aden, which embraced all the free people before the revolutions of September 26 and October 14, as it was a springboard for freedom, dignity and independence, has turned to be a ghost city ruled by US-Saudi militias. Its people suffer injustice, oppression, aggression and plunder of lands and wealth.
Life in Aden became unbearable so the citizens there fled up, seeking refuge in other safer places away from the occupation of the US-Saudi coalition.
What the free people and revolutionaries in southern Yemen made and sacrifices for more than 129 years, against the British occupation 1839 – 1967, in order to gain freedom, dignity and independence, vanished during the years of war in Yemen since March 2015.
Britain returned with the US and the Zionist entity to Aden and the rest of the southern governorates through their tools from the coalition countries “Saudi Arabia and the UAE”.
They established joint military bases in the “Gulf of Aden, Bab al-Mandab Strait, al-Anad, Socotra, Mahra, Mukalla,” and along the southern coasts and the southern entrance to the Red Sea.
During seven years, Aden and the rest of the southern governorates experienced economic collapse amid a lack of the most basic services, including electricity, water and health.
Furthermore, the coalition sparked the conflicts between the people of those regions once again, adopting the policy of “divide to control”.
These sufferings ignited the fires of angry protests “the revolution of the hungry” in the cities of Hadhramaut, Aden, Abyan, Lahj, Socotra, early last September, demanding the coalition’s troops to leave.
The protests were met with repression and abuse, killing and wounding many by the fire of the occupation militia, and hundreds of participants in the revolution were taken to detention centers.
On the other hand, the awareness movement among the people of the occupied governorates has grown towards turning points that lead the people to declare armed struggle against the occupation coalition.