From Aden … to Mr. Martin Griffith, Again!!
Aden now is amid its darkest days in the last hundred years. While you are visiting Sanaa over and over again, Aden is violated over and over again. People are being killed for nothing. The day before, a son of my friend, Dr. Aref Ahmed Ali, expert of malaria and dengue fever, lost his leg without doing nothing. Many like him are being ruined and their future is destroyed. You go to Sanaa while electricity in Aden is cut off. You repeat your visit to Sanaa and in Aden, the largest store of wheat is closed, the store that sells bread of hungry citizens. You visit Sanaa again while sewer in Aden is blocked so that diseases and epidemics can spread and kill. In den, the salary is not enough to buy bread to live along the month. In Aden pencils are taller than loaves of French or Indian bread. In Aden, the humid summer is suffocating sick people who can not find fans or air conditioners and their only wish is a fan of palm leaves. You visit Sanaa while public transports in Aden stop as fuel prices increased in triple since your appointment. Since your appointment, Aden is being torn apart by systematic projects of strife that are devised in the dark away from you. You are in Sanaa, very far from Aden.
Dear Mr. Griffith:
Come to Aden so that the whole world can come with you and see unjust and unfair conditions under which we live. Or should we be mutineers, outlaws and coup forces threatening international navigation to come to us? We can never be so. But, do you want us to be so?
Dear Mr. Griffith:
The southern people is not a military, security or even economic map on the walls of your office that you can manage and change as like with colored pins. The southern people and people of Aden are not a chess board on your disk where you can move pieces as big ones’ desire while we, the pawns, die one after another.
Dear Mr. Griffith:
The southern people and people of Aden are not the strategic Bab Al-Mandeb Straights, Aden International Seaport, Shores of Arab Sea overseeing international trade paths nor hidden natural riches in the lands of Shabwa and Hadhramaut. We are humans, just like you. Your kingdom colonized us for 129 years and went away while we remained. We are of different color but we have the same feelings and need the same living rights. Talk about us, not about our lands, its geography, significance nor riches. We want to live, with or without these riches.
Dear Mr. Griffith:
Aden and the south were very optimistic with your appointment, not because your predecessor was bad, but because your country is member of UN Security Council and this may make your voice louder to be quickly heard. But you have to listen to us and know well that Aden became worse, darker, less hopeful and more frustrating. This will never create security, stability nor development in the future.
Dear Mr. Griffith:
Brothers of the northern people will never fight fiercely against Al-Houthis although they don’t support them and even reject their project. But you are offering them, as alternatives, persons, tools and system they have already tried and they will never accept them again. Help them to find ethically, socially and politically acceptable alternatives and this coup and war will stop immediately.
Dear Mr. Griffith:
Southern citizens winder every day, why is Sanaa nearly stable while Aden is not even close to stability? I can answer this question from my point of view. Here in Aden and the south, we don’t have any ambitions neither in Sanaa nor in any other city of the Arab Republic of Yemen. Therefore, we don’t seek to terrorize their people, disturb their security, destroy its infrastructure, disrupt their daily living or even call for foreign interference to impose a project of robbery and domination over them under a notion that touches feelings but is meant to be imposed forcefully through the power they are seeking now.
Dear Mr. Griffith:
Your problem is that you are talking in a diplomatic manner with those who pushed the country and people into four long years of war and destruction through their selfish and corrupt policies, and yet you want them to find a solution. They only know war. They only have war. So, what solution do you expect? You should talk to someone else as they have never been the people nor even representing them. they don’t know the people’s needs and expectations.
Dear Mr. Griffith:
People in the north and in the south are sick of a war they are almost extinct because of it. Relieve them of this misery. Help the north to restore a state where they can live on their own way of life even if you treat them harshly for some time. Let us in the south to live as we wish and as we can. Stop being harsh to us as we really ran out of patience. They will not surrender and neither will us. So, what would you do?
