Aden - When the demonstrators in Cairo rejoice Hosni Mubarak celebrates the resignation of the presidency, the people of Yemen are now demanding a revolution in their country.
In the southern Yemeni port city, the demonstrators marched down the district of Mansoura while flying the flag of South Arabia and exclaimed, "Revolution, revolution to the south."
According to witnesses, a few hours earlier, security forces fired ammunition during a demonstration in the same place. Hundreds of other people doing the same action demonstration in Aden, also in several other cities in southern Yemen.
"After Hosni Mubarak, the next is Yemen," said Zahra Saleh, secession activists, who witnessed the situation in Cairo through the television in his office in Aden.
"The revolution must be more powerful Yemen," said Ali Jarallah, leader of the southern separatist movement that was sitting next to Saleh.
Yemen's secession movement is not demanding political reform, ending corruption, or demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, as did the political opposition in the capital Sanaa. They demanded an end to the occupation of northern Yemen and south Yemen's independence recovery.
Although both of these demonstrations inspired by the uprising in Tunisia and Egypt, the difference in the purpose of the demonstration Yemen represents how the anti-government groups throughout the Arab countries form a revolutionary energy to run their own agenda.
"What happened in Egypt gives a glimmer of hope for the movement in the south," said Tammam Bashraheel, editor of the newspaper Al Ayyam that has been banned in Aden.
South movement leader and former Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh say what happened in Tunisia and Egypt reflect the new history that can be equated with the end of the cold war.
From the press statement he gave to the local media as quoted by The Christian Science Monitor, Saturday (02/12/2011), he likened the demonstration in the south with Egypt, where the youth played a central role.
In the southern Yemeni port city, the demonstrators marched down the district of Mansoura while flying the flag of South Arabia and exclaimed, "Revolution, revolution to the south."
According to witnesses, a few hours earlier, security forces fired ammunition during a demonstration in the same place. Hundreds of other people doing the same action demonstration in Aden, also in several other cities in southern Yemen.
"After Hosni Mubarak, the next is Yemen," said Zahra Saleh, secession activists, who witnessed the situation in Cairo through the television in his office in Aden.
"The revolution must be more powerful Yemen," said Ali Jarallah, leader of the southern separatist movement that was sitting next to Saleh.
Yemen's secession movement is not demanding political reform, ending corruption, or demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, as did the political opposition in the capital Sanaa. They demanded an end to the occupation of northern Yemen and south Yemen's independence recovery.
Although both of these demonstrations inspired by the uprising in Tunisia and Egypt, the difference in the purpose of the demonstration Yemen represents how the anti-government groups throughout the Arab countries form a revolutionary energy to run their own agenda.
"What happened in Egypt gives a glimmer of hope for the movement in the south," said Tammam Bashraheel, editor of the newspaper Al Ayyam that has been banned in Aden.
South movement leader and former Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh say what happened in Tunisia and Egypt reflect the new history that can be equated with the end of the cold war.
From the press statement he gave to the local media as quoted by The Christian Science Monitor, Saturday (02/12/2011), he likened the demonstration in the south with Egypt, where the youth played a central role.