Yemen MP Ahmed Saif Hashid: Islah party shifts Altagheer square to detention center and JMP is just decoration

Interviewed by Mohammad al-Qasim, for al-yemen newspaper

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• – Altagheer squares seemed to have changed a lot, which rises concerns regarding differences among constituents of these squares. Do you think that the change squares of 2012 is different from that of 2011, what are the reasons?

There has been no difference, the change square still under control of Islah opposing party that is actually heavily saturated with tribal ideology and fundamentalism. The party, with its influential powers, is the major reason behind constant tensions and violations committed against revolutionaries. These powers cause the anti-saleh regime revolution and its goals to become weak and unable to achieve brilliant success. They are hindering the silent society segment from joining the revolution, and had this party not steered the revolution since its first day, it would have been succeeded since months, if not within one or two months. It is the influential regime-affiliates Islah who conspired against an abortive revolution and let many opportunities missing, starting with Dignity Friday, then the Taiz holocaust of the change square, and finally the life rally. They changed the Sanaa square into a jail for revolutionaries. Unfortunately this is the truth that should be known.

• – What are the latest developments of the committee formed to tackle disputes occurred last month between Houthi and Islah affiliates?

The other joint meeting parties (JMPs) actually played a secondary role in relation to the Islah party, which plays, represented by its influential powers, the most crucial role at change square of Sanaa. The role of the other parties is no more than decoration of an alleged partnership that is much more pitiful than be condemned, and had there been minimum of independence of those parties, a mutual decision making process, there would not have been such a difficult situation. The violated rights of revolutionaries would be stopped as well as the unilateral decision making process since first day, yet these violations continued and became more intense recently. In fact, the other (JMPs) can neither take decisions nor can they stop any violations, but are only a decoration of the leaderships influencing in Islah. I call these  parties to revolt against all of  Islah unilateralism and the crimes committed against revolutionaries. What add insult to injury is the daily violations committed by revolution-defaming Islah party, which is more atrocious than the regime we all demand its step-down.

The full dependence of these parties on Islah can cause great  damage, feeling incredible before members of these parties and others. The silence practiced towards these violations make these parties only partners of criminal acts and later on, no excuses shall be accepted. These acts unveil to how extent Islah is dictatorial and awful.

• – You and a number of activists are accused of being behind problems occurring in the change square, and of causing Huthis to rebel against Islah members?

The attempt to depict these problems as conflict between Huthis and Islah is exercised by Islah, to bring ambiguity and  deception. The Huthis are part of the society and a component of revolution and of Sanaa change square. Like us, they face the same attacks committed by Islah militia. We both share pain, yet we respect several members affiliating to this party. The conflict within Sanaa change square occurs between revolutionaries will and that of influencing powers. Islah want to cause the society to hate Huthis, depending on behavior of elimination resulted throughout years  including six wars shared between the regime and influential Islah forces. The party, with its scandals and propaganda against its rivals, makes no difference compared with the regime, if not much more worse.

• – Can you explain about the so-called revolution salvation front you declared?

The front in question is a long queue dictated by necessity for bringing the revolution out of attempts of burial. It is a new center of forces trying to revive lost political balance and to break the existing monopolized political representation. The front came to fill in a big political gap, having the so-called opposition parties become a copy of the regime. It came also to reactivate revolutionaries after powers of the people congress and Islah parties collaborated against them, and to resist the corrupted forces precluding achieving goals of revolution.

• – Some people ridicule your front considering it as a coalition to sell the revolution, this is posted on the Facebook?

The people who sold the revolution are those who sold the homeland; Najeran, Gaizan and Aseer, and conspired against both Sept and Oct revolutions. These people still dependent on Saudi Arabia and cannot live without it. They receive millions of dollars against a constant backward and corrupted Yemen. It is those people whose interests mixed with the regime, sharing all profits together since 33 years and would continue in future.      The coalition with the Huthis aims only at resisting dictatorship, elimination and repression practiced by the regimes Islah and people congress parties.

• – What do you think about the political compromise in Yemen, would the national reconciliation government meet the demands and goals of the interim period, how do you assess its progress?

I think the compromise in its existing shape has looted a half of the revolution, if not all of it, especially that is based on sharing interests, not for achieving goals of the revolution. It was not only marginalized three major agents; Huthis squares youth and the south movement, but also goals of the revolution, fortified the  world and Saudi national security interests at expense of revolutionaries demands, so this government is worthless.

• – We can conclude some concerns from your previous interviews, what are they and to how extent you are afraid of tribal religious presence, in future?

These concerns are real ones and supported by many evidences that unveiled extent of Islah awfulness. It is governed by its fundamentalist, tribal and military forces, and such a party with these constituents can never build a modern civil  democratic and stable country that can rectify errors of the past and fulfill needs of the present and future.

As there are calls to an escalating program that may contradicts existing government, that called to avoiding exaggeration regarding the regime stepping down.

• – what are the plans you intend to achieve through the interim period?

The civil coalition of revolutionary youth was born from womb of the revolution, not from religious, tribal doctrine or foreign agendas. It is a true expression of goals achieving ambition, modern and prosperous future, and it shall defend the revolution forever as long as it tackles dreams of the poor who look forward to an end to the remains of  the regime. It shall not deviate its course of resisting corrupted back warded forces striving to abort our revolution.

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