President Al-Zubaidi addresses speech to our southern people on 27th anniversary of occupation against the South and 14th of launching southern liberating revolution

The President of the Southern Transitional Council, Supreme Commander of the Southern Armed Forces, President Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, addressed an important speech to our southern people at home and abroad, on the occasion of the 27^th anniversary of the occupation against the South on July 7, 1994, and the launch of the southern liberation revolution on July 7, 2007.

Hereunder it is:

In the name of Allah the Merciful

Praise be to Allah, and prayers and peace be upon the Holy Prophet Mohammad bin Abdullah, and his family, companions, and those who are loyal to him.

O free men and heroes inside and outside the homeland of the South..

We salute you with glory and honor, as we commemorate today the anniversary of the occupation against our homeland of the South, on the black day of July 7^th of the year 1994.

O sons of our proud and steadfast people..

During twenty-seven years of the occupation, our homeland of the South has been subjected to the worst practices of oppression, persecution, injustice, and eradication policies that targeted the land, people, identity, and the southern existence, in which our people lived with them as strangers in their homeland, deprived of their wealth and rights, and that led to rejection, revolution and resistance to change this bitter reality, and this change has been achieved in a number of governorates, and is being on the way to be achieved in Shabwa and in Hadramout valley.

O Free and Great men and women of the South..

One of the indications of the greatness of our people and the strength of their determination is that they were able to turn this black, bloody day, with its bitter details, into a day of victory and light, when they launched their peaceful revolution on this same date of the year 2007, heralding the making of a new glorious history, through the great launch of the epics of the southern liberation movement, which shook the cores of the occupation, and accumulated the struggles of our people, leading to the intensification of its resistance, which accomplished the liberation of most of the governorates of our homeland, starting in the year 2015.

Our southern people..

The occupier thought that with his oppression and tyranny, he could bring our people to their knees, in order to prolong their stay on our homeland, but its colonial illusions evaporated and its dreams were broken before the solidity of our people and their steely will.

Our Free fighters..

Our people's struggle march is still glowing, and the liberation revolution continues and will not stop until every inch of our beloved homeland of the South is purified.

As we are enjoying freedom today in Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Al-Dhale, Hadramout and Socotra after cutting off the hands of the occupier there, but our people in the governorates of Shabwa, Al-Mahra, and Hadramout valley are still suffering from the bitter injustice and the tyranny and terror of the occupation, and we take it as an occasion to salute the struggle of our people in these areas, and we salute their steadfastness and courage in expressing their rejection of the occupation in all forms of rejection.

We renew our pledge that we will unite with our people in all areas that are still under occupation and terrorism until getting salvation from them and from their terrorist arms, and until they are able to manage themselves administratively, militarily, and in security, and to end all forms of domination, plunder, and looting of wealth, and there is no South without Hadramout, Shabwa, and Al-Mahra, and the victories of our people cannot be completed without the salvation of the valley and desert of Hadramout, with Shabwa and Al-Mahra governorates from the occupation and its militias.

Sons of our proud people of the South..

The Riyadh Agreement, which was sponsored by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the active participation of the United Arab Emirates, embodied the reality of the current conflict in the South and Yemen, between two entities, one southern and the other northern, and it constituted an important pivotal station for reaching the table of the comprehensive political process, the South has become today, under the leadership of the Southern Transitional Council, possesses the strength that qualifies it to impose its choices in war and peace, and to enable it to cope with and confront all scenarios.

While we thank all the good efforts made by the sponsors of the agreement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, over the course of nearly two years to implement the agreement, we affirm our full readiness to complete discussions to implement the remaining provisions of the agreement, hoping at the same time from the Kingdom to exert more pressure on the other side to stop the escalation in all its forms and types, and to stop the arrogance that is embodied by tampering forces under the banner of legitimacy, to obstruct the implementation of the agreement and to plunge the South into conflicts and interlacing crises, with the aim of continuing plundering the wealth and bounties of the South and persecuting its people, especially in Hadramout valley, Al-Mahra, and Shabwa, which are the backbone of the country's economy.

That is why we renew our call to end the tampering taking place in Shabwa, Hadramout valley, and Al-Mahra, which is being done and managed by certain forces away from the authority of the parity government in the capital, Aden.

Sons of our heroic people..

We in the Southern Transitional Council, with us, and with our proud people of the South, from Shehen to Bab al-Mandab, have repeatedly emphasized that our options are on the side of the Arab coalition led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and they are stable and permanent options based on the unity of the common destiny that unites us and our brothers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and the Arab Gulf countries in general.

In conclusion, we renew the covenant and promise to our people and our southern armed forces that we will follow the path of the martyrs in victory for the cause of our people and their right to independence in their homeland, state and identity, stressing that there is no sustainable peace in the South, Yemen, and the region, except by realizing the legitimate rights of our people to self-determination, and the establishment of their independent state, which it will only be integrated into its Arab surroundings, integrated with its brothers in Yemen, the Gulf, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Glory and eternity to the martyrs of our people and their resistance and armed forces..

Wishing healing of the wounded..

And freedom for prisoners..

..Victory for our people.

Peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah.