News - Yemen: The Governor of Aden, Tariq Mustafa Salam, affirmed that the Yemeni people's celebration of the 61st anniversary of the glorious October 14, 1963, Revolution serves as a reaffirmation of the continued struggle against oppressors and occupiers.

He highlighted that Yemen, which achieved victory in the September and October revolutions against British occupation in 1963, and more recently against Western, American, and Zionist conspiracies in 2014, will continue its liberation efforts despite the challenges and difficulties. The struggle will persist until all occupied Yemeni lands are fully liberated.

Salam emphasized that the October Revolution marks a significant occasion and a historic milestone for Yemen. It was through this revolution that the southern part of the country was freed from Western imperialist British occupation, which had oppressed the Yemeni people and desecrated their lands for nearly 125 years.

He further pointed out that the current actions and criminal behavior in the occupied southern and eastern governorates demonstrate the ongoing efforts of Western British powers, along with other colonial and arrogant states, to target Yemen and its people. These powers seek to restore the dominance and empire that were defeated by the steadfastness of the October revolutionaries, who overcame the British arsenal.

Salam condemned the dangerous criminal role played by the occupiers and their mercenaries in the occupied southern and eastern governorates. He pointed to the ongoing destruction, looting, and exploitation of Yemen's resources, violations of its sovereignty, and the degradation of its social fabric. He also denounced the occupiers' policy of starvation and intimidation, used to silence all opposing voices in these regions.

This, Salam said, reveals the sinister objectives of the US-British occupiers, who seek to implement hidden agendas after their colonial plans were thwarted by the revolutions of Yemen’s free people on October 14 and September 21. These revolutions forced the occupiers to leave by force, ensuring they would never return.

The October 14 Revolution is a revolution launched in 1963 in South Yemen against British colonialism, which ruled the region for more than a century.

The beginnings of Emirati and Saudi intervention in the South in 2015, started with the establishment of military formations and the creation of political and tribal faces loyal to these two countries to achieve their goals, are similar to what the British did when they occupied the city of Aden in 1839.

The presence of the UAE and Saudi Arabia today also appears similar to the recent period of British presence in the South, which began to end with protests and strikes, before the factions of the national movement took up arms and forcibly expelled the British occupiers in 1967.

Since Saudi Arabia and the UAE entered the war in Yemen under the leadership of "the coalition" more than nine years ago, they have consistently emulated the British role and sought to replicate the British experience in the South.

The Saudi-Emirati ambition in Yemen faced a southern awakening, which began on the island of Socotra when thousands protested against turning the island into a dependency of Abu Dhabi. Then came the uprising of the people of Al-Mahra in July, demanding sovereignty over the province and rejecting foreign control over the city. The protests expanded to reach the city of Aden, where the UAE has deployed over thirty thousand local military personnel loyal to them.

Hundreds took to the streets demanding the departure of the "coalition" forces from the south, a situation that analysts have compared to the protests in the 1960s against British presence, which laid the foundation for armed struggle in the south.