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Inderdaad, de sjiïtische Houthi’s zijn feitelijk numeriek in de minderheid in Jemen. De meerderheid is soenni.

Veel Soennitische Jemenieten hebben heimwee naar de Socialistische republiek Zuid-Jemen.

The United States also severed its relationship in October 1969. The new powers issued a new constitution, nationalized foreign banks and insurance companies, and changed the name of the state to The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in line with the Marxist-Leninist approach they followed. A centrally planned economy was established.[40]The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen established close ties with the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, Cuba, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. East Germany's constitution of 1968 even served as a kind of blueprint for the PDRY's first constitution.[41]


The new government embarked on a programme of nationalisation, introduced central planning, put limits on housing ownership and rent, and implemented land reforms. By 1973, the GDP of South Yemen increased by 25 percent.[42] And despite the conservative environment and resistance, women became legally equal to men, polygamy, child marriage and arranged marriage were all banned by law and equal rights in divorce were sanctioned; all of supported and protected by the state General Union of Yemeni Women.[43] The Republic also secularised education and sharia law was replaced by a state legal code.[44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Movement
The Southern Movement (Arabic: ???*??? ???????, romanized: al-?ir?k al-Jan?biyy), sometimes known as the Southern Separatist Movement, or South Yemen Movement, or Aden Movement, and colloquially known as al-Hirak (lit.?'the movement'),[2] is a political movement and paramilitary organization active in the south of Yemen since 2007, demanding secession from the Republic of Yemen and a return to the former independent state of South Yemen.