The assassination of Al-Hamdi and the 1994 war… Bin Amer reveals “conspiracies” that surrounded Yemeni unity since the 1970s

Brigadier General Abdullah Bin Amer, the Deputy Director of the Moral Guidance Department in Sana’a, affirmed that “the Yemeni people historically in the north and south were not separate,” explaining that “the real separation was between political forces linked abroad,” indicating that “the main dilemma facing Yemen in past decades was represented by foreign interventions.”

Follow-ups – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:

Bin Amer revealed that the international circumstances following the end of the Cold War and America’s victory over the Soviet Union “played a fundamental role in achieving Yemeni unity,” explaining that Washington “gave the authorities in North Yemen, which were allied with the West, an opportunity to annex South Yemen, which was allied with the Soviets,” according to an interview on Al-Masirah TV.

He explained that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh visited America in January 1990 “to get a green light to re-establish unity,” during which he pledged that the system of the Republic of Yemen after unity would be “an extension of the system of the Yemen Arab Republic” (i.e., loyal to the West), which “encouraged the Americans to support the plan.”

Bin Amer affirmed that “the US provided the northern regime with a map containing all military sites in the south” as part of a plan to invade the south (which was postponed).

He revealed that “Ali Abdullah Saleh, despite being one of the parties to achieving unity, was at the same time part of the conspiracy against unity,” pointing out that when the will of the north and south converged in the 1970s to achieve unity (between Presidents Salem Rabie Ali and Ibrahim Al-Hamdi), “the US instructed its followers in the north to assassinate Al-Hamdi,” and that “Ali Abdullah Saleh was a major part of the assassination operation.”

Bin Amer indicated that “one of the reasons for the 1994 war was the existence of American approval to end the military formations belonging to the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, whose armament and military doctrine were linked to the Soviet Union,” revealing that “the American ambassador at that time stated, while at the home of a Yemeni tribal sheikh, that the goal of the war was to ‘liquidate socialist influence’ in Yemen.”

The deputy director of the Moral Guidance Department in Sana’a stressed the need to “differentiate between the unity of the influential and the unity of the people,” which he said is “deeply rooted in the consciousness of Yemenis, and there is no disagreement about it,” affirming that “Yemenis will not be able to build their future except through a realistic and objective reading of their history.”