国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Yemens Aden faces escalating faction after attack by southern separatist forces_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Yemens Aden faces escalating faction after attack by southern separatist forces

A government source told Xinhua by phone that the investigation into the attack on a government institution is underway, vowing to bring perpetrators to justice.

"Raising Yemen's national flag is not a crime because our country is still unified and not separated," the government source said on condition of anonymity.

"The attack that targeted the academy is a sabotage act aimed at destabilizing Aden and creating chaos," he added.

However, a STC leader based in Aden, said people in Aden and all other southern provinces all oppose "staying in unity with northern provinces."

"Even the students studying at the military academy were against raising the flag but some northern government leaders insisted on doing so," the source said, who also asked to remain anonymous.

The STC source revealed that the Yemeni government has no support in southern provinces including Aden as they are all being secured by local militias.

Meanwhile, an Aden-based youth activist, who identified himself as Nasr Abdullah, agreed that the people in Aden "only accept the government as a guest after it came back from exile in Saudi Arabia."

It is "our sons and brothers who struggled and liberated Aden from Houthis in 2017," he pointed out.

Abdullah also accused the Yemeni government of creating problems and depriving southern people from basic rights including services and electricity.

"The government's rampant corruption reached an unbearable stage and it's time to govern our own cities because that's our legitimate right," the activist said.