Southern components call for standing united with Ashal’s million-man march
ADEN, Sept. 09 (YPA) – Seven southern political components condemned on Monday the continued enforced disappearance of the kidnapped commander Ali Ashal Al-Jaadani inside Aden prisons, which the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) takes over, for the fourth consecutive month.
In a statement, the components announced their full support for the outcomes of Ashal’s second million-man march in the city of Zinjibar of Abyan province, south of Yemen, and its legitimate demands to reveal the fate of all the kidnapped and forcibly disappeared in the prisons in all southern provinces.
The statement stressed that Ashal’s case has become a public opinion issue that concerns all the southern people who are troubled by the state of security chaos witnessed by the city of Aden.
It called on the local authorities in Aden and the rest of the regions to assume their responsibilities by bringing the criminals to justice.
The statement said that Ashal’s case would be one in a long series of kidnapping crimes, enforced disappearances and thuggish behavior that parties affiliated with the security authorities have practiced.
The joint statement of the components “Supreme Council of the Southern Revolutionary Movement, the Southern National Coalition, the First Southern Conference, Cairo Conference, the Renaissance Movement for Peaceful Change, the Shabwa National Council, the Yemeni Unity Gathering Party, and the Liberation Front Party” praised the popular efforts in various peaceful demonstrations, calling for the community activities in the southern provinces to unite and join the peaceful Ashal Million in support of human rights and the law.
They called also on the coalition-affiliated Aden government to seriously move to address the security chaos file, and work to rebuild what it called “the security and military apparatuses on national foundations, and to leave the regional phenomenon and present “Aden as a model for a state of law and institutions” according to the statement.
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