STC vows to pursue “Socialist Party and Southern Movement” leaders

ADEN, Jan. 8 (YPA) – The so-called the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) on Monday vowed to pursue the cadres and leaders of the Socialist Party, which opposed the council’s policy in the occupied southern provinces.

Jamal Bin Ataf, a member of the so-called General Assembly of the Council, said that the people of the southern provinces need time to remove what he called the bad image that the Socialist Party reflected in his days in office, in front of the countries of the world.

This was interpreted by observers as a clear threat from the STC militias to go through the process of pursuing and chasing the leaders and cadres of the Socialist Party.

He said the STC must build bridges of trust with the international and regional community,

Ataf stressed that it would take time for what he described to be the wrong image raised by the forces of the Socialist Party.

Southern movement forces are opposed to the policy of the STC (Emirati-born) and its repressive actions in the southern provinces, against those who disagree with it.

The head of the Southern Movement, Hassan Ahmed Ba’oum, born in the Socialist Party, has always maintained that the liberals in the south and Yemen in general refuse to represent the transitional issue.

A source in the Socialist Party, who declined to be named, told he Aden News Agency: “No one could have imagined that the STC would end up waving to pursue and harass socialist party cadres, in the way that the former Saleh regime and its special teams against its political opponents, did.”

E.M