The leader of the separatist Southern Movement in Yemen says
the group will announce the secession of the south from the rest of the Arab
country and declare independence in a ceremony in the city of Aden on Saturday.
According to al-Mashhad-al-Yemeni news website, Saleh Yahya
Saied, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Revolutionary Peaceful
Movement for the Liberation and Independence of the South, said time has come
to announce the breakaway from Yemeni unification as “most of the territories
of the south have been liberated and the establishment of a southern national
army has been launched.”
He added that the independence document will also be
unveiled in the ceremony on May 21.
The port city of Aden, Yemen’s second largest city, used to
be the capital of a once independent South Yemen before unification in 1990.
Saied further said that the document includes the formation
of a national council for a transition period of two and a half years and an
interim government which will be followed by elections in the south as well as
the formation of a presidential council. The council will be comprised of six
members where each of them will represent one of the provinces of Aden, Abyan,
Lahij, Hadhramaut, Mahrah and Shabwah.
The news comes as Yemen has been under airstrikes by Saudi
Arabia since the regime in Riyadh launched its fatal campaign against the
impoverished country on March 26, 2015, in a bid to undermine the Houthi
Ansarullah movement and restore power to former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur
Hadi.
More than 9,400 people have been killed in the Saudi
airstrikes ever since.
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