Welcome to The Southern Civil Democratic Rally Page

مرحبا بكم في موقع التجمع المدني الجنوبي الديمقراطي (مجد)

Welcome to the official page of The Southern Civil Democratic Rally

بيــــان إشهـــــار

مشروع" الرؤية الوطنية"

Document of Announcement

Document of National Vision

بتوفيق من المولى العلي القدير وبالعمل المثابر والاجتهاد المتفاني لنخبة من أبناء الجنوب الخيرين في داخل الوطن وخارجه تم إنجاز إعداد مشروع الرؤية الوطنية للتجمع المدني الجنوبي الديمقراطي (مجد) بعد أن تم التواصل بصورة موسعة لمسودة المشروع مع عدد كبير من القيادات والشخصيات الوطنية والبرلمانية والأكاديمية والمثقفين الجنوبيين في الداخل والخارج والذين ساهموا في إغناء الرؤية سعياً منهم لتأسيس تجمع يتجاوز كل مفردات الصراع وتصفية الحسابات ويتحاشى إجمالاً كل ما يمكن أن يلحق أي إضرار بالقضية الجنوبية ويشوه من مشروعية حلها بعد أن أصبح الإقليم والعالم يدرك أهمية معالجتها وتسويتها باعتبارها القضية المركزية وقطب الرحى في المشكلة اليمنية بكل أبعادها وتعقيداتها .

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Document of Announcement



Document of Announcement

          
With the grace of the Lord Almighty and through the consistent work and dedicated diligence of a benevolent group of elite Southerners in the homeland and abroad, the draft national vision of the SCDR-MAGD was accomplished. The proposed draft was disseminated amongst a large number of southern national figures, politicians, parliamentarians, academics and intellectuals both in the homeland and overseas, who have extensively contributed to enriching the draft national vision. The vision aimed at establishing a rally that surpasses all past conflicts and score-settling while avoiding all that might cause harm to the Southern Question or distort its equitable settlement. At this stage, it is crucial to realise that regional and global powers have become aware of the importance of resolving the Southern Question in an equitable manner which reflects their understanding of it being the central issue and hub of the Yemeni problem in all its dimensions and complexities. The issue of establishing a comprehensive national entity with its modern civil and lawful state on this important part of the Arabian Peninsula is a Southern thesis par excellence and is exclusively a product of unchallenged southern origin. The generation of the founding fathers of the Southern national cause had realised at an early stage the importance of the association of the national identity with the more important and supreme goal of making its state civil, democratic and modern. Such a state has to accommodate the full dimensions of equitable citizenship and true partnership of power and wealth, secure equal opportunities to a free and dignified life for all its citizens and enhance all the public freedoms and individual rights under the rule of law and the full independence of the judiciary (the modern democratic legal civil state). The state of 22nd May 1990 unity failed in establishing that modern democratic legal civil state with all the features of its revitalisation project and instead, in a crude manner based on the futile reasoning of the “return of the branch to its origin”, replaced it by a project similar to the bygone “unifications” built on the concepts of invasion, expansion, incorporation and annexation.

          
The effacement of all that is related to the civil national and juridical Southern Legacy awakened the glorious Southern Movement Revolution (Southern Hirak) in all its constituent elements and strands, of which the SCDR Southern Civil Democratic Rally (SCDR-MAGD) is an integral component.

          
As members of the founding body, mindful of our responsibilities and awareness of the importance of mobilising all capacities and capabilities of a united southern stance for the realisation of the legitimate dues of the southern case, hereby declare the launch of the the Southern Civil Democratic Rally (MAGD) as a civil, democratic and an independent framework. Operating peacefully and within the law, we intend to work towards extracting all rights and legitimate dues related to the southern case through the establishment of a modern civil rights and democratic state.

         
The founder members of (MAGD) are a group of competent southern nationals, comprising political, academic, and civil dignitaries within the country and internationally. In our declaration of the establishment of (MAGD), in its nucleus format are keen to complete our plan of entry into the national arena, both internally and abroad in order to broaden its constituent base and to enrich its national vision in line with the aims of completing our preparations for the constituent conference of the rally. With this conference all elements of the establishment body would have been completed, which in turn will open the opportunity for general membership in accordance with the approved provisions of its statute.

          
The mere fact that our right for equal representation in all proceedings of the forthcoming national dialogue, and cannot be overlooked by other proceedings and committees of this dialogue, as well as the acceptance of the fact that positive compatibility and agreement must be the outcome of this dialogue.... All this put upon us, southerners, and the onus of working very hard for the establishment of a common front despite the differences in our opinion and aspirations for a just solution to the southern question.  This must be done in accordance with the wishes of our people in the south and without trading accusations of treason, or excluding others or marginalising other groups. No single component should claim monopoly over the truth, and we must all work towards instilling the culture of non-violence against others.

          
Our right for equal representation in all proceedings of the forthcoming national dialogue which cannot be overlooked by other proceedings and committees of this dialogue and the acceptance of the fact that positive compatibility and agreement must be its outcome, could not have been achieved but for the steadfast resistance of our people  and the progressive escalation of our peaceful protest (Hirak) during the past difficult years since that aggressive and unjust invasion of the south of the country in the summer of 1994.

          
Our members had the honour of being leaders in demanding the acceptance of these principles, and early involvement through their meetings with ministers and ambassadors of our regional and international partners during their meetings in and outside the country with the representatives of the 10 countries responsible for the implementation of International resolutions during the Cairo meeting on 11th June 2012.  We also presented our advanced and frank position regarding the importance of implementing these resolutions during our meetings with the Presidential committee responsible for external communication in Cairo on 22nd June 2012.

          
The endorsement of the above three principles, which was followed by the issue of the Presidential decrees, which we agree with and support, will lay the basis for the unification of the military and security forces. They will also establish further the basis for drawing up a time table for the implementation of the 20 points action plan recommended by the national dialogue technical committee, which we insisted on their implementation at an early stage through our declaration of intents document. This, we believe will facilitate the convening of the all-encompassing national dialogue under the auspices of the regional and international powers.

          
Our position is in line with the fact that the endorsement and implementation of the above mentioned 3 principles, together with the decrees towards the unification of the military and security forces represent solid basis for the establishment of the modern state based on civil rights for all its citizens under the rule of law within a federal political system between two main regions and comprising federal counties within each region. We envisage this to be based on a parliamentary system comprising two legislative chambers.

                   
We wish to emphasise that our aim in making this announcement, together with our national vision the Southern Civil Democratic Rally ) magd- scdr ), is to encourage unity amongst southerners for the purpose of achieving a just outcome for the southern question. This is in line with our peaceful struggle and the desired unity of the national effort for all southern social and political components, and makes it very effective. This is the more critical at this stage as the prospects for comprehensive changes are becoming a reality, the national, regional and international dimensions of which must not be ignored. This must be perceived within the overall situation and the southern question in particular, in a manner which will lead to its satisfactory and just resolution acceptable to our steadfast people in the south.

With God’s blessings,,,, 

The preparatory committee of
THE SOUTHERN CIVIL
DEMOCRATIC RALLY
(MAGD- SCDR)
Issued on: 26/12/2012

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