After Monday’s fighting in Zinjibar, the Yemen government is now claiming that the Southern Transitional Council (STC) had refused their offers to negotiate and de-escalate the conflict over the future of South Yemen.
The STC declared self-rule recently, aiming to reestablish South Yemen as an independent state. The Saudi-backed government has a big problem with this, however, because their territory is more or less only in the south.
The government versus STC fight is mostly a proxy fight between the Saudis and UAE, who heavily back both factions and envision gaining from a post-war situation in which the respective groups control important territory.
It is common for the government to accuse the STC of being unreasonable, though the Saudis and UAE initially brokered a power-sharing deal which the government reneged on, and this is likely informing the STC on questions to negotiate any further.
The STC seems like a better indicator of the will of the people of South Yemen than that Saudi bitch state. They pre-exist this entire struggle by decades. Yemen was never meant to be a single nation. Then again, from an anarchist’s perspective, who is.
yemen would be lucky if they get to be a saudi state. why can they not see this. the houthi’s are there for iran not for them. the saudi’s love and respect the yemenese and will support them to the hilt.
Not even gonna respond to that, you silly bastard.
the saudi’s want that bottom right corner of that peninsula under their control. all yemen has to do is say come on in and save us from these ruthless houthi’s who are only using us as human shields and throw us a couple of pails of porridge once a week. we want more. we know you will restore the port of aden for us if we join the saudi regime. together we will take on the evil iranian houthi’s who only wish to get this land is to surround the great state of israel.