Hadhramaut taking a stand against Brotherhood influence

"Patience is running out." This phrase probably sums up the condition of the Yemeni people in the face of the practices of the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement represented in Yemen by Islah (Reform) Party.

Yemenis have already realized that the Muslim Brotherhood has evil intentions for their country.

They believe that the group wants to ruin Yemen, in implementation of foreign agendas whose main goal is to plunder national wealth and capabilities.

In this, the Brotherhood and the Houthi militia stand on equal footing.

Popular rejection

On August 24, youths from Hadhramaut province appealed to all citizens to unite to confront the Brotherhood. They asked the members of the public to go out in a peaceful march on August 25 in the city of Seiyun in the Hadhramaut Valley to denounce the violations of Brotherhood militias.

These calls came after members of the Brotherhood’s Islah Party sustained heavy losses at the hands of the Forces of the Southern Giants in Shabwah.

The losses prompted Brotherhood members to head to Hadhramaut in the hope of expelling the Southern Forces and taking control of the province which is located in eastern Yemen, especially after the appointment of Mabkhout Mubarak bin Madi as its new governor.

The Brotherhood is afraid that its plans will fail in Hadhramaut, as was the case in Shabwah at the hands of Governor, Awad Ibn al-Wazir al-Awlaki.

The Brotherhood had made repeated calls for the Presidential Leadership Council to sack al-Awlaki.

Response

After the Brotherhood’s party deployed on August 24 a number of its forces in Tur al-Baha in Lahij province, the leaders of the Southern Transitional Council immediately met and announced a military operation against the Brotherhood's forces in the first military region in the Hadhramaut Valley and desert regions.

Ahmed Bin Brik, the military official in the Transitional Council, said Hadhramaut would be the next destination for the Southern Forces after the battles of Abyan.

He announced the unification of the Southern Forces behind the goal of defeating the Brotherhood's rebellion in all southern provinces.

Bin Brik called on citizens to support the Southern Forces.

Brotherhood rebellion

According to some observers, the Yemeni people's march to support the decisions of the Presidential Council and the Southern Forces confirm that everybody is tired of the Brotherhood's party.

Therefore, moves by the new Yemeni presidency to restructure all state institutions constitute a fatal blow to this group that fears greatly from facing the fate of the Brotherhood in Egypt, Tunisia, and Sudan, after their recent exclusion from the political scene in these countries.