Ali Nasir Muhammad

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Ali Nasir Muhammad as South Yemeni President during a visit to East Berlin on January 12, 1978

Ali Nasir Muhammad al-Hasani , Arabic علي ناصر محمد الحسني, DMG ʿAlī Nāṣir Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī (born December 31, 1939 in Dathina , South Yemen ), was President of South Yemen and, after he had started a civil war in January 1986 and was defeated, had to flee to North Yemen and later to Dubai and Damascus .

At first he was active as a member of the NLF independence movement. In 1978 Ali Nasir Muhammad became head of state on an interim basis from June 26 to December 27 and was replaced by Abdul Fattah Ismail . Ali Nasir Muhammad took power again on April 21, 1980 and remained in this office until January 24, 1986. His predecessor, Abdul Fattah Ismail, had resigned for "health reasons" and did not return from Moscow until 1985 after a long convalescence. Soon after his return, Abdul Fattah Ismail was re-elected to the political bureau of the state party, the Marxist Unity Party JSP , where he had a majority of members behind him , also because of his role in the struggle for independence against Great Britain . On January 13, 1986, the conflict between the two camps in Aden escalated into a civil war, which began when Ali Nasir did not appear at the Politburo meeting, but his bodyguards killed Vice President Ali Ahmed Antar and four other members of the Politburo . Several thousand people were killed in the ensuing clashes, including Ali Nasir Muhammad's great rival Abdul Fattah Ismail. Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas was finally able to prevail and came to power, while Ali Nasir, who was deposed as president on January 24, 1986 , fled his supporters to northern Yemen . In the western media, this episode was communicated as a failed coup attempt by “hard” communists against a “moderate and pragmatic” president, supported by Moscow.

literature

• Robert D. Burrowes: Historical Dictionary of Yemen (= Volume 72 Asian / Oceanian historical dictionaries ). Second edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-5528-1 , pp. 27f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ علي ناصر محمد. Retrieved August 17, 2020 (Arabic). 
2. ↑ Le Monde Diplomatique, May 14, 2010: Two Yemen, one crisis state