Assassinations for dialogue and negotiations?

Assassinations for dialogue and negotiations?

By Nasser Arrabyee, 27/03/2013

It is only cowards who resort to guns instead of dialogue, said Abdullah Al Fadhli,before he left Yemen to Jordan for treatments from assassination attempt he survived in Sanaa earlier this week. Al Fadhli, tribal leader of south, and also head of authority of lands real estates, advised the dialogue conference to continue and forget about attempts to foil it.  

At least four people were killed in three  assassination attempts implemented by conflicting tribal and political groups involved in Yemen dialogue over two days. 

The targets of the assassinations were tribal leaders from the south and northern province of Saada, where the biggest challenges facing dialogue exist 

Despite the fact that 60,000 soldiers were deployed to secure the 565 member dialogue conference, the first assassination happened at one of the military check points nearby the place of dialogue in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

On March 23, 2013, when the car of the tribal leader, Abdul Wahid Abu Ras was told to stop for checking, armed tribesmen wearing military uniforms were waiting to kill their political and ideological opponent Abu Ras.

They fired at the car killing immediately three  bodyguards of Abu Ras who survived only because he was not in the car. The disguised tribesmen escaped quickly and soldiers of the check point were then busy with helping the victims.

The tribal leader  Abu Ras, originally from Al Jawf province at the border of Saada, is one of prominent representatives of Al Houthi Shiite rebels ( Al Houthis have 35 representatives out of  565 who represent all groups).

Al Jawf province witnessed and still witness clashes and tensions between Al Houthi supporters and the Sunni Islamists of Islah party ( Yemen brotherhood).

Immediately after the assassination attempt of Abu Ras, Al Houthi group threatened to withdraw from dialogue if the killers are not arrested and put on trial. Al Houthi accused in statements military and tribal forces of doing their best to foil the dialogue in clear reference to Islah Sunni  Islamists who are in direct connection with the defected general Ali Muhsen and Al Ahmar tribal leaders who led six wars against Al Houthi from 2004 to 2010.

The assassins were tribesmen loyal to the tribal leader Barash from Al Jawf province also. Barash, Sunni Islamist leader,  is accusing Al Houthi and his supporters from Al Jawf of killing relatives and destroying houses and looting properties while trying to expand Shiite influence in the neighboring province of Al Jawf.

The second assassination happened in a tunnel close to the Palace of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, which means in one of the most security tightened areas in the capital Sanaa.

The southern tribal leader Abdullah Al Fadhli along with his armed bodyguards were driving their car in the tunnel of Aser, when gunmen attacked them. The tribal leader Al Fadhli, who is also head of State Authority of Lands and Real Estates, was seriously injured and one his bodyguards was  killed. 

On the same day, Monday March 25, 2013, the tribal leader Sulaiman bin Ali from the northern province of Saada survived an assassination  attempt when his car exploded immediately after he left it to go shopping in the northern part of Sanaa.  The car was destroyed but no casualties. 

After these assassinations, tribal leaders found a good chance to use their heavily armed body guards even in the place of dialogue. The most famous  tribal leaders like Ahmar and Shayif, the symbols of the most influential two tribes of Yemen, Hashed and Bakil, come with their armed convoys to a square close to dialogue place and stop convoys there.  Only one armored car takes Sadek Ahmar, for instance,  to dialogue  room in the hotel of Movenpic and all other cars with tens of armed tribesmen wait outside the hotel .

After assassinations, Sadek Al Ahmar tried to get in the hotel with  three armed bodyguards. Most of the dialogue members blamed him and asked him to apologize for doing that. 

" From tomorrow, I will wear suit with tie, and will speak English and French if this will please you," said Sadek Al Ahmar ironically. 

There is increasing concerns after these assassinations that dialogue may stop of fail. 

3 Killed In First Assassination In Yemen Dialogue

3 Killed  In First  Assassination In Yemen Dialogue 

By Nasser Arrabyee, 23/03/2013

The Yemen Al Houthi Shiite group said  Sunni military, tribal and religious   leaders were behind the assassination attempt of their representative Abdul Wahed Najj Abu Ras. Three bodyguards of Abu Ras were killed in the attempt that happened nearby the place where dialogue is being held. 

Abu Ras and his three slain bodyguards are   originally  from Al Jawf, neighboring and where Al Houthis try to expand despite strong refusal from their historic opponents , the Islah party. 

Gunmen also from Al Jawf, believed to be from Islah party, made an ambush close to one of the heck points in Nasr Street, close to Movenpic Sanaa where dialogue is being held. When the soldiers of the check point stopped Abu Ras car and gunmen fired and killed three and Abu Ras was not in the car, according to family sources. 

 Tribal leaders attend to a square close to the place of dialogue with their guns and tens of bodyguards.  Middle level tribal leaders are taken from this square ( 500 meters away) to the hotel in long buses with armed convoys staying being in the square.  High lever tribal leaders, like Ahmar brothers, and Shaif father and son, they use one of their armored cars to take them to the hotel accompanied by five-six bodyguards.

The five -six bodyguards go with their leader to inner door of the hotel where they drop him and get back to the square, big parking place for cars. I saw the two  tribal leaders ( Ahmar and Shaif)  myself today getting in the hotel leaving heavily armed tribesmen outside the hotel. 

 Earlier last week, Al Ahmar ran over a soldier who tried to stop his convoy ( seriously injured). Al Ahmar wanted to get his armed convoy to the yard of the hotel and he did. Modern forces, soft and weak voices, condemned that and demanded to ban armed convoys from getting to the yard of the hotel.  The armed convoys made a crowd even outside the hotel as I saw today. 

Al Houthi group said in statement sent to media that those behind the assassination attempt want to foil dialogue because they do not want the state of law and order. 

Yemen Dialogue: To Make Or To Break?

 Yemen national comprehensive dialogue has started amid external and internal challenges. If the 565 Yemenis supposedly representing all groups  in the 6-month process of dialogue, fail to overcome these challenges, the already conflict-torn country will be sliding into more devastating wars. 

The final outcome of this  long-awaited dialogue is a constitution agreed upon by all groups. The President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi  at the opening ceremony on Monday March 18th, 2013, said that the solution of southern issue will be the key of solutions of all other issues.

 This means that if  dialogue members fail to find out a solution for stopping the increasing sentiment of  separation in the south, then dialogue result will be zero. Now, the southern separatist movement is not represented in the dialogue.

 Hundreds of thousands of separatists were protesting in the biggest square of Aden ( Show Square) when dialogue was starting in Sanaa.  The "decision is ours" was the slogan of the protesting separatists who refused the dialogue and described the southerners taking part in dialogue as "traitors" including the President and Prime Minster who are originally from the south. 

Mohammed Ali Ahmed, and Ahmed Al Suraimah, and Abdullah Al Nakhebi are three leaders representing three groups of the south separation movement. These three leaders are taking part in the dialogue and they raised the flag of the south inside the conference hall in the Presidential Palace at the opening ceremony. 

Regardless of what the majority in the south want (Separation or Unity), or whether  separatists taking part in dialogue are enough or not. The danger of failure stays high because of something else.  The same old traditional forces who allied against the south in the war of 1994 are still the dominators of dialogue and they are doing their best to make the final results pleasing them and their trends not pleasing the southerners who want separation because of being politically and socially  marginalized and excluded since after the war of 1994. 

"The allies of 1994 war turned the south to a land for plundering and looting, and these allied forces are still having the money and weapons and army," said the minister of trade and industry, Saad Al Deen bin Talib who was speaking in the dialogue conference.

He said the money and weapons and army should have been taken from these forces before the dialogue.  

Bin Talib, originally from the south,  said that these forces are still controlling over all oil and gas companies in the country. " We will never hand our land to these forces again," Said bin Talib in obvious  reference to religious, tribal and military forces who launched the war against the south as socialists and communists (kafirs or infidels).   With these forces still dominating the dialogue and political , social, and economic scenes, the possibility of convincing even few of the southerners is very weak. 

Dialogue,however is important and the only way to make or to break. Everybody notices that separation movement is increasing day by day in the south. But as they ( separatists) say the unity can not be imposed by force, the unionists say the separation can not be imposed by force either.

"There is a strong movement in the south wanting to  disengage or disunite and restore the southern State, but the only way for that is the dialogue, the State will not come to them in golden plate," said Abdul Kareem Al Eryani, advisor of President Hadi. 

So,the biggest internal threats to dialogue are the traditional forces who allied with exPresident Saleh against the south in the war of 1994.  While Saleh is gone, they are still orchestrating the whole transition process and dialogue for their interests. 

The cleric Abdul Majid Al Zandani is still the spiritual leader of the religious forces, Hamid Al Ahmar with his empire of various business including oil and gas companies,  is still the  leader of tribal forces, and general Ali Muhsen ( commander of 1994 war) is still one of two commanders of the army in addition to his wide-nation patronage networks.  Each one of these men have his own people and his own groups in the dialogue conference. 

If "modern forces" can express themselves even to the extent of preventing traditional forces from over-domination' this will be the best case for dialogue.

The second best case is keeping the current equilibrium between the rival traditional forces. Tribal, religious and military forces are still divided and split into two groups one with ExPresident Saleh and one against him. 

The worst case is a complete failure of dialogue and returning into wars. 

Observers see that the anti-Saleh traditional group, more specifically the Islamist party, Islah (which include tribal religious and military forces) does not like dialogue and tend more to explosion of the situation. Because in dialogue they lose the card of "revolutionary legitimacy", the most profitable card for them over the last two years. 

"If dialogue fails and situation explodes, in this case there will be no constitutional legitimacy nor revolutionary, and it will be easier for President Hadi to use the army," said Adel Ar Rabeai,  political analyst. 

"And if Hadi fails to contain the split in the army, the two groups of old traditional forces will be in war, and the stronger will win," said Ar Rabeai.

The external challenge facing the dialogue is the foreign interference with its different and conflicting agendas. For instance, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have their own conflicting agendas in Yemen now, and United States and Iran have their own agendas,even though most of financial and political support come from US, Saudi Arabia.  These interferences may lead to failure of dialogue because it kindles more conflicts between rival groups. 

3 Killed In First Assassination In Yemen Dialogue

3 Killed  In First  Assassination In Yemen Dialogue 

By Nasser Arrabyee, 23/03/2013

The Yemen Al Houthi Shiite group said  Sunni military, tribal and religious   leaders were behind the assassination attempt of their representative Abdul Wahed Najj Abu Ras. Three bodyguards of Abu Ras were killed in the attempt that happened nearby the place where dialogue is being held. 

Abu Ras and his three slain bodyguards are   originally  from Al Jawf, neighboring and where Al Houthis try to expand despite strong refusal from their historic opponents , the Islah party. 

Gunmen also from Al Jawf, believed to be from Islah party, made an ambush close to one of the heck points in Nasr Street, close to Movenpic Sanaa where dialogue is being held. When the soldiers of the check point stopped Abu Ras car and gunmen fired and killed three and Abu Ras was not in the car, according to family sources. 

 Tribal leaders attend to a square close to the place of dialogue with their guns and tens of bodyguards.  Middle level tribal leaders are taken from this square ( 500 meters away) to the hotel in long buses with armed convoys staying being in the square.  High lever tribal leaders, like Ahmar brothers, and Shaif father and son, they use one of their armored cars to take them to the hotel accompanied by five-six bodyguards.

The five -six bodyguards go with their leader to inner door of the hotel where they drop him and get back to the square, big parking place for cars. I saw the two  tribal leaders ( Ahmar and Shaif)  myself today getting in the hotel leaving heavily armed tribesmen outside the hotel. 

 Earlier last week, Al Ahmar ran over a soldier who tried to stop his convoy ( seriously injured). Al Ahmar wanted to get his armed convoy to the yard of the hotel and he did. Modern forces, soft and weak voices, condemned that and demanded to ban armed convoys from getting to the yard of the hotel.  The armed convoys made a crowd even outside the hotel as I saw today. 

Al Houthi group said in statement sent to media that those behind the assassination attempt want to foil dialogue because they do not want the state of law and order. 

Yemen Dialogue: To Make Or To Break?

 Yemen national comprehensive dialogue has started amid external and internal challenges. If the 565 Yemenis supposedly representing all groups  in the 6-month process of dialogue, fail to overcome these challenges, the already conflict-torn country will be sliding into more devastating wars. 

The final outcome of this  long-awaited dialogue is a constitution agreed upon by all groups. The President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi  at the opening ceremony on Monday March 18th, 2013, said that the solution of southern issue will be the key of solutions of all other issues.

 This means that if  dialogue members fail to find out a solution for stopping the increasing sentiment of  separation in the south, then dialogue result will be zero. Now, the southern separatist movement is not represented in the dialogue.

 Hundreds of thousands of separatists were protesting in the biggest square of Aden ( Show Square) when dialogue was starting in Sanaa.  The "decision is ours" was the slogan of the protesting separatists who refused the dialogue and described the southerners taking part in dialogue as "traitors" including the President and Prime Minster who are originally from the south. 

Mohammed Ali Ahmed, and Ahmed Al Suraimah, and Abdullah Al Nakhebi are three leaders representing three groups of the south separation movement. These three leaders are taking part in the dialogue and they raised the flag of the south inside the conference hall in the Presidential Palace at the opening ceremony. 

Regardless of what the majority in the south want (Separation or Unity), or whether  separatists taking part in dialogue are enough or not. The danger of failure stays high because of something else.  The same old traditional forces who allied against the south in the war of 1994 are still the dominators of dialogue and they are doing their best to make the final results pleasing them and their trends not pleasing the southerners who want separation because of being politically and socially  marginalized and excluded since after the war of 1994. 

"The allies of 1994 war turned the south to a land for plundering and looting, and these allied forces are still having the money and weapons and army," said the minister of trade and industry, Saad Al Deen bin Talib who was speaking in the dialogue conference.

He said the money and weapons and army should have been taken from these forces before the dialogue.  

Bin Talib, originally from the south,  said that these forces are still controlling over all oil and gas companies in the country. " We will never hand our land to these forces again," Said bin Talib in obvious  reference to religious, tribal and military forces who launched the war against the south as socialists and communists (kafirs or infidels).   With these forces still dominating the dialogue and political , social, and economic scenes, the possibility of convincing even few of the southerners is very weak. 

Dialogue,however is important and the only way to make or to break. Everybody notices that separation movement is increasing day by day in the south. But as they ( separatists) say the unity can not be imposed by force, the unionists say the separation can not be imposed by force either.

"There is a strong movement in the south wanting to  disengage or disunite and restore the southern State, but the only way for that is the dialogue, the State will not come to them in golden plate," said Abdul Kareem Al Eryani, advisor of President Hadi. 

So,the biggest internal threats to dialogue are the traditional forces who allied with exPresident Saleh against the south in the war of 1994.  While Saleh is gone, they are still orchestrating the whole transition process and dialogue for their interests. 

The cleric Abdul Majid Al Zandani is still the spiritual leader of the religious forces, Hamid Al Ahmar with his empire of various business including oil and gas companies,  is still the  leader of tribal forces, and general Ali Muhsen ( commander of 1994 war) is still one of two commanders of the army in addition to his wide-nation patronage networks.  Each one of these men have his own people and his own groups in the dialogue conference. 

If "modern forces" can express themselves even to the extent of preventing traditional forces from over-domination' this will be the best case for dialogue.

The second best case is keeping the current equilibrium between the rival traditional forces. Tribal, religious and military forces are still divided and split into two groups one with ExPresident Saleh and one against him. 

The worst case is a complete failure of dialogue and returning into wars. 

Observers see that the anti-Saleh traditional group, more specifically the Islamist party, Islah (which include tribal religious and military forces) does not like dialogue and tend more to explosion of the situation. Because in dialogue they lose the card of "revolutionary legitimacy", the most profitable card for them over the last two years. 

"If dialogue fails and situation explodes, in this case there will be no constitutional legitimacy nor revolutionary, and it will be easier for President Hadi to use the army," said Adel Ar Rabeai,  political analyst. 

"And if Hadi fails to contain the split in the army, the two groups of old traditional forces will be in war, and the stronger will win," said Ar Rabeai.

The external challenge facing the dialogue is the foreign interference with its different and conflicting agendas. For instance, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have their own conflicting agendas in Yemen now, and United States and Iran have their own agendas,even though most of financial and political support come from US, Saudi Arabia.  These interferences may lead to failure of dialogue because it kindles more conflicts between rival groups. 

Yemen Dialogue: To Make Or To Break?

Yemen Dialogue: To Make Or To Break?

By Nasser Arrabyee, 22/03/2013

Yemen national comprehensive dialogue has started amid external and internal challenges. If the 565 Yemenis supposedly representing all groups  in the 6-month process of dialogue, fail to overcome these challenges, the already conflict-torn country will be sliding into more devastating wars.

The final outcome of this  long-awaited dialogue is a constitution agreed upon by all groups. The President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi  at the opening ceremony on Monday March 18th, 2013, said that the solution of southern issue will be the key of solutions of all other issues.

 This means that if  dialogue members fail to find out a solution for stopping the increasing sentiment of  separation in the south, then dialogue result will be zero. Now, the southern separatist movement is not represented in the dialogue.

 Hundreds of thousands of separatists were protesting in the biggest square of Aden ( Show Square) when dialogue was starting in Sanaa.  The "decision is ours" was the slogan of the protesting separatists who refused the dialogue and described the southerners taking part in dialogue as "traitors" including the President and Prime Minster who are originally from the south.

Mohammed Ali Ahmed, and Ahmed Al Suraimah, and Abdullah Al Nakhebi are three leaders representing three groups of the south separation movement. These three leaders are taking part in the dialogue and they raised the flag of the south inside the conference hall in the Presidential Palace at the opening ceremony.

Regardless of what the majority in the south want (Separation or Unity), or whether  separatists taking part in dialogue are enough or not. The danger of failure stays high because of something else.  The same old traditional forces who allied against the south in the war of 1994 are still the dominators of dialogue and they are doing their best to make the final results pleasing them and their trends not pleasing the southerners who want separation because of being politically and socially  marginalized and excluded since after the war of 1994.

"The allies of 1994 war turned the south to a land for plundering and looting, and these allied forces are still having the money and weapons and army," said the minister of trade and industry, Saad Al Deen bin Talib who was speaking in the dialogue conference.

He said the money and weapons and army should have been taken from these forces before the dialogue.

Bin Talib, originally from the south,  said that these forces are still controlling over all oil and gas companies in the country. " We will never hand our land to these forces again," Said bin Talib in obvious  reference to religious, tribal and military forces who launched the war against the south as socialists and communists (kafirs or infidels).   With these forces still dominating the dialogue and political , social, and economic scenes, the possibility of convincing even few of the southerners is very weak.

Dialogue,however is important and the only way to make or to break. Everybody notices that separation movement is increasing day by day in the south. But as they ( separatists) say the unity can not be imposed by force, the unionists say the separation can not be imposed by force either.

"There is a strong movement in the south wanting to  disengage or disunite and restore the southern State, but the only way for that is the dialogue, the State will not come to them in golden plate," said Abdul Kareem Al Eryani, advisor of President Hadi.

So,the biggest internal threats to dialogue are the traditional forces who allied with exPresident Saleh against the south in the war of 1994.  While Saleh is gone, they are still orchestrating the whole transition process and dialogue for their interests.

The cleric Abdul Majid Al Zandani is still the spiritual leader of the religious forces, Hamid Al Ahmar with his empire of various business including oil and gas companies,  is still the  leader of tribal forces, and general Ali Muhsen ( commander of 1994 war) is still one of two commanders of the army in addition to his wide-nation patronage networks.  Each one of these men have his own people and his own groups in the dialogue conference.


If "modern forces" can express themselves even to the extent of preventing traditional forces from over-domination' this will be the best case for dialogue.
The second best case is keeping the current equilibrium between the rival traditional forces. Tribal, religious and military forces are still divided and split into two groups one with ExPresident Saleh and one against him.

The worst case is a complete failure of dialogue and returning into wars.
Observers see that the anti-Saleh traditional group, more specifically the Islamist party, Islah (which include tribal religious and military forces) does not like dialogue and tend more to explosion of the situation. Because in dialogue they lose the card of "revolutionary legitimacy", the most profitable card for them over the last two years.

"If dialogue fails and situation explodes, in this case there will be no constitutional legitimacy nor revolutionary, and it will be easier for President Hadi to use the army," said Adel Ar Rabeai,  political analyst.

"And if Hadi fails to contain the split in the army, the two groups of old traditional forces will be in war, and the stronger will win," said Ar Rabeai.

The external challenge facing the dialogue is the foreign interference with its different and conflicting agendas. For instance, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have their own conflicting agendas in Yemen now, and United States and Iran have their own agendas,even though most of financial and political support come from US, Saudi Arabia.  These interferences may lead to failure of dialogue because it kindles more conflicts between rival groups.

Five people at least killed in fighting of tribesmen with Al Qaeda South Yemen

Five people at least killed in fighting of tribesmen with Al Qaeda South Yemen

Source: Reuters,22/03/2013

ADEN-South Yemen-At least five people were killed in Yemen when a pro-government militia attacked Al-Qaeda-linked militants yesterday, residents and militia sources said.

The sources said several people were wounded on Thursday in the fighting which broke out in the village of Al-Qafr in the southern province of Abyan.

The two groups have regularly attacked each other since the pro-government Popular Committees were set up as a volunteer force against militants who exploited the 2011 political turmoil to seize territory and establish Shariah.

In the latest incident, dozens of pro-government Popular Committee members attacked Ansar Al-Shariah fighters to avenge the killing of one of their colleagues the day before, militia sources said. 

Three of those killed were members of Ansar Al-Sahriah and the other two were militia fighters, the sources said.

Yemen Dialogue: Talking The Talk Or Walking The Walk?

Yemen Dialogue: talking the talk or walking the walk?

By Nasser Arrabyee,19/03/2013

Yemen prime minister Mohammed Basundwa  did not attend  the country's long awaited national dialogue opened Monday in the capital Sanaa.

Some observers and a lot of Yemenis understood that this dialogue, completely supported  from West and Gulf, is not important at all as long as  it is boycotted by the government itself.

On the eve of launching dialogue, which include 565 people representing supposedly all Yemeni groups, the Islamic-dominated ruling coalition ( locally known as  Joint Meeting Parties JMPs) said they refuse "killers" of protesters to be taking part in dialogue.  

The Islamists ( Yemen brotherhood) obviously referred to some of participants of Saleh party. Before objection of  Basundwah and JMP or rather Islamist party Islah, the controversial  tribal leader Hamid Al Ahmar refused clearly  to participate in the dialogue leaving two of his brothers take part.

  Hamid Al Ahmar is a  leading member of Islamist Islah but because of his wealth and influence of his tribe Hashed he is considered as unseen decision maker of JMP and the government itself. 

The prime minister Basundwah is called by some Yemenis as the man of Hamid who boasted many times privately and publicly as the orchestrator, financier and main protector of the revolution against his father's ally and friend ExPresident Saleh.  

The tribal leader Hamid Al Ahmar and his party Islah and his "man" prime minister Basundwah talk about "blood of martyrs" every time they want to gain more and outdo their rivals from Saleh's party. 

Mr Hafez Meyad is one of Saleh's men who are participating in the dialogue but unwelcome by Islamist and their tribal leaders. " We do not want to talk with killers", this is what they say in their statements. 

Mr Meyad, who was the  chairman of important economic corporation, now still a businessman, demanded that all those responsible for wars and massacres and assassinations be put on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC).  He said he would be the first to go to ICC if any Yemeni has enough evidence that he was one of those responsible.

"I am ready to go to ICC for trial if a single Yemeni ( other than my rivals) would testify  that I made something wrong," said Mr Meyad in press statements commenting on those who mentioned his name.

Mr Meyad demanded the international community to help all Yemenis by reaching the truth about the big crimes committed during political conflict of the past and not  only using these crimes for political gains and blackmailing rivals. 

"I would be the first one to go on trial in ICC if those responsible for wars of 86,94, six wars of Saada, March 18 massacre, assassination attempt of Saleh, Sabeen massacre," said Meyad referring to the most important crimes that happened during past political conflicts. No  one of those responsible for them  was held accountable so far. 

At opening ceremony of dialogue,President Hadi said on air that anyone who does not want the dialogue should go out. " The door is open for those who do not like dialogue," said Hadi when one of the participants objected to the  foreign  interference in dialogue especially the interference of the American ambassador.

 The participant Ali Al Bukhaiti, from Al Houthi group, objected to describing the American ambassador and other ambassadors as sponsors  of the dialogue. The Secretary General of the dialogue conference Ahmed Bin Mubarak in his speech described American ambassador and others as sponsors of dialogue.  Al Bukhaiti objected loudly causing a clamor among the audience. To prevent further hurly-burly inside the crowded big hall of Presidential Palace, President Hadi released his warnings and his soldiers kicked out the objector. 

While dialogue conference was being held in Sanaa, hundreds of thousands of people were demonstrating in Aden, capital of the south, to refuse dialogue and demand separation between south and north. The million-man demonstration was called  "The decision is ours". 

All internal and external players realize that the south issue is the key issue for all other issues, which means without solution for it , the dialogue will be completely failed .

Some groups of the south separation movement are taking part in the dialogue which will last for  6 months in six provinces. Leaders of these groups, Mohammed Ali Ahmed, Abdullah Al Nakhebi, and Ahmed Bin Fared Al Suraimah, are all  accused of treason by other separatist groups who refuse dialogue. 

 Despite of this, the flag of south was raised inside the conference hall of the Presidential Palace  by these southern groups while President Hadi was speaking in presence of the UN envoy Jamal Binomar and GCC Secretary General Abdul Latif Al Zayani.  

Hassan Ziad, Secretary General   of Al Haq party who is boycotting the dialogue, said  America is focussing on army and security restructure, and Britain is focussing on how to make the relation between south and north, and France is assigned to formulate the constitution, and the participants from Yemen are busy with  the daily allowance of 220US$.

"Those who lie at people for the sake of 220US$ per day will never lead Yemen to good," said Hassan Zaid, in reference to the daily allowance of each participant  of the dialogue.