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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