YEMEN Press Agency

Al-Hirak’s Council vows coalition to leave southern provinces

MAHRA, Sept. 12 (YPA) – Head of the Southern Al-Hirak’s Political Council, Madram Abu Siraj, vowed on Monday the Saudi-UAE coalition to leave southern provinces of Yemen.

He affirmed that the movement’s leaders were subjected to assassinations, arrests and enforced disappearances by the UAE-funded militia in the southern provinces.

Madram explained that the convening of the conference on al-Hirak in the city of Al-Ghaydah, because the council was unable to hold in Aden, due to the situation and the lawlessness, the spread of death squads and arrests, and the deterioration of living life.

“Convening the conference with the goal of reforming and correcting the course of the revolutionary southern al-Hirak on scientific and practical basis, the desired goal was achieved in restoring a homeland free of occupiers, corruption, terrorism, lawlessness, unemployment and extremism,” he added.

Madram pointed out that the al-Hirak’s leaders were subjected during the last period to assassinations, arrests by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia in Aden and Hadramout, including the head of the Council, Madram Abu Siraj, members of the Political Bureau Abdul Wali Al-Subaihi, Salem Al-Rubaizi, a member of the Central Committee Yahya Baras and other leaders.

He considered heading, Fadi Baoum, the former head of Al-Hirak, to the STC, was an individual decision without consulting with the Political Bureau and the central body with the aim of achieving personal interests and goals.

The chairman of the council called on all political forces and components to work under the roof of partnership and dialogue on “the principle of acceptance of freedom of opinion, intellectual and political pluralism, freedom of expression, freedom of the press and media, and the building of a free and democratic homeland.”

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