Hadramout Governor Warns against Involving the Governorate in Conflicts of Mercenaries and Occupation
Hadhramaut Governor Luqman Baras warned against overt efforts to transfer the conflicts of US-Saudi mercenaries and agents to the valley and desert of Hadhramaut.
“The US-Saudi aggression is trying, through its mercenaries, to plunge the governorate and its people into their conflicts,” Governor Baras stressed.
He pointed out that Hadhramaut is facing multiple external conspiracies today, and the security chaos and service deterioration it suffers from is a result of the clash of regional and foreign agendas in it.
The Governor of Hadhramaut warned of the attempts of the invasion and occupation forces to transform the 59th anniversary of the October 14 Revolution from a national occasion that carries many connotations and lessons for the new occupiers, into an occasion to announce agendas and expose old ambitions.
“This requires the people of Hadhramaut to evoke their pivotal role in the October Revolution and the struggle epics they wrote to thwart the movements and conspiracies of the countries involved in aggression,” he added.
He considered the October 14 Revolution as one of the most important and greatest liberation revolutions in political history.
He described the movements of the invasion and occupation forces in Hadhramaut as “failed attempts that will fall just as the British and other occupation projects fell.”
Governor Baras called on all the people of Hadhramaut not to submit to the conspiracies of the countries involved in aggression and their small projects, which were perished in the past and forever.
In light of Saudi-Emirati occupation, protests, demonstrations, clashing projects in Hadramout took many forms, and went beyond Seiyun, where the 1st military region is, to Al-Qattan, Tarim, Shibam, and the various regions of Wadi Hadramawt.
The struggle for influence is centered near oil wells, gold extraction sites and other precious metals that are abundant in Hadramawt, the largest Yemeni governorate, and its richest in oil and mineral wealth.
A group of the people of Hadhramaut that was formed recently is demanding separation and disengagement from the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC). They see that the latter has marginalized the people of the governorate and confiscated their rights to wealth and positions. While the STC accuses the Islah party of being behind this, and that Islah raises the slogan of unity but supports the secession of Hadramawt.
The STC pushes the masses supporting it to demand the expulsion of the first military region affiliated with the Islah party from the areas rich in oil and mineral resources, and the replacement of the Hadrami elite supported by the UAE. While the Council of Saudi-Emirati tools issued a set of decisions that overthrew leaders affiliated with Islah, a storm that may extend to other governorates.
The conflict between the tools, and the divergence of projects, comes in the context of the partition and fragmentation project with external planning to serve their ambitions in the oil provinces of economic and geopolitical importance from Shabwa to Mahra and Hadramawt. It is not unlikely that it will reach Marib, the stronghold of the Islah party.