- Like other peoples of the Arab region, the Yemeni people came out in 2011, calling for freedom from the regimes that had dominated them for decades and turned them into failed states dependent on foreign powers. Away from political parties, the Yemeni people revolted at that time in demand of freedom, independence, development and dignity. Patrons of the previous regime had nothing but to conspire against that popular move, while the regime and its various institutions were collapsing, through an initiative called the Gulf Initiative, which was plotted in flagrant violation of the provisions of the constitution. The initiative sought to redistribute roles among the previous regime’s pillars, entrusting the Army Command to Ali Mohsen, the cousin of the then-ousted President, and the political leadership of the country to the then-Vice-President, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who both worked to abort the people’s dreams for development, liberation and independence. They had also reinforced the policy of submission to external powers until the US and Saudi ambassadors became, openly and unashamedly, the actual rulers of Yemen.
- The economic crisis was exacerbated and the US terrorism spread through its tools – Al-Qaeda and ISIS – in Yemen until they reached the suburbs of Sana’a, the Capital Secretariat. The terrorists targeted the country’s most important sovereign military sites (the Headquarters of Ministry of Defense and various military areas), besides markets and mosques, where shattered body parts were a daily meal that the people used to experience under the US-Saudi sponsorship.
- The Gulf Initiative imposed on the Yemeni people was for two years that should be followed by a formation of an elected Government. However, these intervening countries refused to comply with their Initiative and move to the next stage of implementation, as they were worried about the fate of their clients in power who did not have any popular support. They hoped that this puppet junta would succeed in implementing their agenda in re-structuring and fragmenting the army, and would complete the conspiracy to divide the country (under the name of Regionalization), according to unjust and unpatriotic bases, paving the way for perpetual internal conflicts.
- For these and some other reasons, the people of Yemen lost patience and rose up in every governorate, and came from every village and home, in a massive popular revolt towards the achievement of their long-awaited dream, which has been abducted since 2011. It was a peaceful revolution armed with full awareness of and defiance against all foreign instruments until victory was achieved on 21st September 2014, when the homeland and its respected people regained their dignity and sovereignty. By then, Yemen had been cleansed of Al-Qaeda and ISIS – the instruments of US – except for some areas that were still under the control of the War Coalition countries. Moreover, the Saudi and American planes transported their clients to their hotels abroad and called them legitimate, giving no attention to the provisions of the constitution, parliament and the will of the people. The revolutionary national components in Sana’a extended a hand to them and gave them an opportunity to participate in a new, free and independent government through the Peace and Partnership Agreement and its annexes.
- However, their sponsoring countries had wicked intention towards this respected country and retained them for another role to come through a direct aggression after the failure of their tools. Unfortunately, the UN has been complicit with the countries of the War Coalition led by the US, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and is still in line with them, naming such seven-year clients of their hotels as a Legitimate Government, despite the fact that there is no popular or constitutional support for them. On the other hand, the Yemeni people persistently continue their struggle to achieve independence, dignity, freedom and development.
