Sana’a Commemorates Martyrdom of President Al-Hamdi

Yemeni political movement the Nasserist Reform Organization has on Tuesday marked the 45th anniversary of the martyrdom of President of Yemen Ibrahim al-Hamdi.

At the event, Mujahid al-Quhali, the head of Nasserist Reform Organisation, pointed out that President Al-Hamdi represented the National project, established the modern Yemeni state and unity of homeland through peaceful and democratic means and methods.

He touched on the most prominent reasons for assassinating President Al-Hamdi, the first reason was his refusal to build Najran-Sharurah and Al Wadea Road, which was occupied by Saudi Arabia after 1969, which reaches a length of 360 kilometers. These areas are rich in oil and mineral wealth.

The second reason, was holding of the Red Sea Security Conference, which aimed to exploit the wealth in it for the benefit of the peoples overlooking it.

He pointed out that the commemoration of the martyrdom of President Hammadi is a symbolic expression of the sacrifices and roles he made in the service of the homeland.

Al-Quhali affirmed that the organization was at the forefront of the ranks that confronted the plan aimed at obliterating the Yemeni identity and the civilizational project of the martyr al-Hamdi.

For his part, Essam Ali Qanaf Zahra, the Secretary-General of Nasserist Reform Organization, read the statement of the event, in which he said, “happened on this black bloody day, the hands of treachery and betrayal led by Ahmed Al-Ghashmi along with the participation of the Saudi military attaché named Saleh Al-Hudayan and a number of Saudi officers assassinated the martyred President Ibrahim Al-Hamdi and his brother Abdullah in the house of Ahmed Al-Ghashmi.

The statement added, “The organization has taken upon itself for 45 years the fulfillment of the objectives of the correction and its leader, and has confronted the scheme of the forces of evil and aggression along with the free people of Yemen on all fronts of pride and honor.”

He reviewed the main elements of President Al-Hamdi’s civilizational project to build the modern civil state, the state of institutions, order, law, justice and equality, and rejection of neglect of the sovereignty of the homeland.

The statement stressed that those who are fighting their people with the countries of Saudi coalition have been shown the objectives of this destructive aggression, but unfortunately, they still live in illusion, deceiving themselves with shady slogans that have nothing to do with the future of the people and their supreme interests in freedom, independence and renaissance.

After the event, the attendees went to the mausoleum of the martyred President Ibrahim Al-Hamdi and his brother Abdullah in the Martyrs’ Cemetery, and read the Fatiha for their souls, and the souls of martyrs of homeland, and laid a wreath on the two shrines.