TAJ’s President Letter to the Arab Summit طباعة
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الأحد, 29 نوفمبر 2009 09:10

In the name of God the most Merciful the most gracious His Majesty King / Abdullah bin Abdul

 Aziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques-King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of the Arab Summit held in Riyadh esteemed ..

Your Majesties and Highnesses kings, presidents and Emirs, Sultans and Sheikhs of Arab States present at the Arab summit in Riyadh


 

 Respectable Secretary General of the Arab League / Amr Moussa, the esteemed gentlemen.


 

 God's mercy and blessings you


 

Allow me to congratulate you on behalf of the Southern Democratic Assembly (TAJ); the southern political organisation that struggles peacefully for liberation of South Yemen  from the occupation of the northern Yemen, and fro achieving the right of self-determination of the Arab people in the south on the road of building a free and independent state ... I warmly  salute the President of the summit and all the kings  presidents, princes and sultans and the Senate and the Arab delegations who  are participating in the Arab Summit  that is held in Riyadh during the period (-28 - March 29, 2007).
We are pleased to put on your table a number of facts relating to our cause and we hope that it will be accessible and have your support as follows:


·        The South of Arabia was granted its independence from the British colony on 30th November 1967 after an occupation lasted 129 years (19th January 1839 - 30th November 1967). The independent state was established on all the southern land, which  is 338,000 squared km, bordered from the east Oman Sultanate, Saudi Arabia from the north, Arab Republic of Yemen from the Northwest, the Red sea from the West and the Aden gulf and Arabian sea from the south. It has declared the city of Aden as its capital and gained a full membership of all regional and international organisations including the United Nations and the Arab league which lasted till 1990.


·        The National Front that received the independent was a branch of the Arab Nationalist Movement took the initiative to call the new state Peoples Republic of South Yemen and amended it to the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen. It was the intention of the new state to achieve the comprehensive Arab unification due to the adoption of the national and revolutionary ideology that was very poplar during the 50s and the 60s of the last century.

  On the 22nd 1990 the unification was declared between Peoples Republic Democratic of Yemen with population of nearly 2 million according to the 1988’ census and Arab Republic of Yemen, covering an area of 160,000 square km with the population nearly 20 million (there was no accurate census) with Sana’a city as its capital. Bearing in mind that there was no referendum was conducted amongst the people of South Yemen regarding the future of their country which was a clear breach to the Aden’s convention of 30th November 1989.
The new unified state has encountered many obstacles and conflicts due to the different cultures, visions and means of building the modern state between the two different political leaderships of the two countries. Consequently the conflict has escalated to an extent, which made the president of the öArab Republic of Yemen; the Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh declare on 27th April 1994 the un fair war, which lasted for 2 months against the South of Yemen, which ended with the fall of Aden and the full military occupation of the South in July 1994.

  • Since July 1994 the people of South Yemen has been living under the northern tribal and military occupation causing lots of suffering and hardship to the people in the South.
The northern occupying authority has not been satisfied with plundering the wealth and implementing exclusion and depravation policy against the southerners but also it continues to practice aggression such as committing serious killings of children, men and women. It has also committed various actions to forge the historical and geographical facts and to omit the identity of the South.


 

The regime of the dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh that has been leading Yemen since 1978 and occupying the south for 12 years has no intention to establish a modern constitutional state. Instead he continues to exert his effort by setting up a repressive and corrupt regime that is heavily used to eliminate political opponents and violate human rights and freedom. This regime is very well known to have provided safe havens for terrorists, exports terrorism and smuggles arms to neighbouring countries which contribute to a large scale in creating instability in those countries. This regime continues to wreck the already fragile Yemeni economy by counterfeiting the Yemeni currency (Riyals) and the foreign currencies of neighbouring and others countries, besides to spread chaos and instability in all the countries around it, which prompts us to warn concerned officials from the Arab and foreign countries and international bodies and organisations to the dangers posed by the system of Sana‘a for the future of their peoples and to the security and stability of the island and the Gulf and the entire world.


 

·        The Southern Democratic Assembly (TAJ) calls on our brothers in the Gulf Cooperation Council to understand and support the southerner’s peaceful struggle for freedom.
          We would also like to take this opportunity to advise them not to fall into the trap that the south has fallen in by giving the corrupt dictatorship regime a chance to mess up the situation and the people of the Gulf States.
·        TAJ would like to remind all participants in the Arab summit that any support offered to the dictatorship regime in Sana’a led by Ali Abdullah Saleh will only be used to enhance corruption, repression and increase the of poverty and instability at the same time  terrorists’ activities will also will be increased and the suffering of our people will be prolonged. 
 During the last 15 years, the occupation regime has proved that it is interested only of the south’s land and wealth, but the southern people have been exposed to exclusion and deprivation. They have been brought to a stage where it can not be tolerated or incurred, as it made our land and our people as war booty, and everyone brought to the brink of collapse and death. As a result of the occupation regime’s practice, the southerners inside and outside the country, had determined to expel the brutal northern Yemeni occupation and to restore their independent and sovereign state on the borders of the south before 22nd May 1990, according to the documents of the South Arabia's independence from Britain in November 1967.


 

We call your summit and your gratitude states to stand by the people of South Yemen in their right to self-determination, liberation, and in restoring full sovereignty of an independent state; therefore we would like to bring to your attention the following:


 

We consider the so-called unity, were the southern people had not the chance to give their opinion or to participate in a referendum; nevertheless that unity was finished after the northern Yemeni war of the summer 1994. That war had ended with the occupation of southern Yemen of  which was destroyed by using rockets, artillery and aviation and the unity had buried under the treads of tanks and feet hordes of the occupying armies from the north in modern war lasted 67 days and resulted in The colonial occupation of the south. So since July 7, 1994 the South is occupied country and should apply on it all the international conventions relating to the peoples and countries under occupation.


 

  1.  We do not acknowledge the northern occupation authority as a result of the 1994 summer’s war and we do not accept the occupation of the south. This occupation practicing on our land and against our people sorts of oppression and persecution. Our people are subject to a political, ethnic and tribal exclusion. Also they are excluded from all areas of life, including work and health services. ((the number of the southerners who were forced to retire illegally are almost half a million officials and the proportion of retirees from the city of Aden, the capital of the south alone compared to retirees in the North and South alike is 55%)).The occupiers also  falsify the history of the south  and eradicate its identity. They loot the wealth and the sale the land and the property of the southerners without rights. The occupiers exercise physical oppression and psychological murder against our people, they commit crimes against humanity. That is why,  we do not recognize this regime, and do not accept this disgraceful situation, on the contrary all its practices only increase our determination to uphold the right to prosecute those who are involved in the illegal acts in the appropriate time and place.
. We call you to compel the occupying regime to implement the Security Council’s resolutions 924 and 931, and force it to withdraw its military and governmental organisations from the south, also leave our people to determine their own destiny, and restore their usurped and occupied territory and get their sovereignty, independence and the right to live in a peace like all other peoples of the world. TAJ would like to and bring to your attention the decision of the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council at its first session 4th – 5th June 1994 in Abha city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which confirmed on "not imposing unity by force."
  1. We call you not to support the occupation regime in occupying our country and boycott it economically politically.
  2. To inform all states, companies and investors to stop dealing with the northern Yemen occupying regime as it has no rights to hold conventions, dispose of land and wealth of south Yemen. Any dealing with Sana’a Regime only consecrate the occupation and the illegal contribution in the looting the property and the wealth of the south. The southerners will not be bound in implementating any agreements made by the occupation northern regime.
  3. . We call you to recognise Southern Democratic Assembly (TAJ), which struggles peacefully for ending the occupation. Our country undoubtedly is important geo-strategic depth for the Arab States and the world. Our independent state will empower the security and stability in the region in particular for Gulf Stets and the Arab League as well.
We appreciate your role in standing by the southern people and our occupied country, and we will not forget your noble brotherly attitude towards our rightful cause and struggling for self-determination and freedom and independence.


 

Our people are keen for freedom and appeal and invite you to send a fact-finding commission to verify of the situation directly and independently there.


 

At the end we would like  to congratulate you summit which is held on the blessing land of the Two Holy Mosques, and wish you a positive outcome for the interests of the Gulf States people in particular, our cause in the South , and the Arab world in general. God grants you success in serving the nation.


 

Many thanks


 

  Dr. / Abdullah Ahmad Bin Ahmad,


 

Chairman of the Southern Democratic Assembly (TAJ),


 

 London,


 

Sunday, 18th March 2007