In two days meeting, held earlier this week in Labus of Yafie district, the Southern Movement leaders announced the day of January, 13 as a day for tolerance, sources related to the Southern Movement in Lahj province told the Yemen Post.

The Southern Movement will celebrate January, 13 of this week to announce reconciliation and tolerance, according to the same sources.

The sources further added that the Southern Movement's position of the upcoming parliamentary lections was the most important point raised in the meeting.

Sana'a regime has systematically discriminated against the south; looting land expelling officials and military leaders form their jobs and starving them, the sources quoted leaders from the Southern Movement appeared in the meeting.

The Southern Movement will struggle until it makes different flag appears in the old independent state of South Yemen, they said.

On January 13, 1986, a violent struggle began in Aden between Ali Nasir Mohammad and the returned Abdul Fattah Ismail and their supporters. Fighting lasted for more than a month and resulted in thousands of casualties, Ali Nasir's ouster, and Ismail's death. Some 60,000 persons, including Ali Nasir and his supporters, fled to the former Southern Yemen.