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Analysis: Hadramaut is Southern in Passion and Identity

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Ain Al-Janoub | Thabit Hussein Saleh.    

Attempts to detach Hadramaut from its Southern cradle—which extends from Al-Mahrah in the east to Bab al-Mandab and Sabiha in the west, and from Socotra in the south to Beihan, Mukayras, Al-Hadd, and Ad-Dali' in the north—are old attempts that resurface from time to time.

The "July 7th regime" struggled desperately to push such attempts through by treating the Hadramaut Valley as a separate province from Hadramaut and its capital, Mukalla. However, it failed in the face of Hadrami steadfastness and Southern cohesion.

This Southern cohesion has been embodied in several key milestones, including:

The launch of the first Southern protest marches from Mukalla in 1998, led by the prominent Southern leader Hassan Baoum.

 The first "Hadrami Uprising" (Heba), led by Sheikh Muqaddam Saad bin Ahmed bin Habrish, who was assassinated along with two of his companions on the morning of December 2, 2013, at the entrance to the city of Seiyun at the hands of the First Military Region gangs loyal to the Sana'a regime. This was due to the conference called for by Bin Habrish in July of the same year, 2013.

 The volcanoes of the first Hadrami Uprising erupted on December 20, 2013, 18 days after his martyrdom.

 The epic liberation of Mukalla and the Hadramaut coast in April 2016 by the Hadrami Elite Forces, freeing it from the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, which had seized it with support from the First Military Region and the terrorist Houthi militia during the second invasion of the South in 2015.

 Numerous million-man mass rallies witnessed in Mukalla, Seiyun, and other Hadrami cities in support of reclaiming the South and rejecting any form of Yemeni military presence on Hadrami soil.

In the recent past, in a scene reminiscent of repeated events in Shabwa, Shuqra, and Socotra, the heads of sedition—protectors and agents of those looting the South’s wealth, supported from abroad—have emerged once again. They appeared in a divisive attempt to shuffle the cards in the face of Southern cohesion, which is determined to continue the struggle and work toward restoring and building the Southern state's military and civil institutions, including the Hadrami Elite Forces.

By objectively reading history and current indicators, these "new-old" attempts will fail in the face of Southern cohesion for the sake of Hadramaut and for the sake of the South.

Political and Military Researcher and Analyst