As soon as the city of Aden came to life in July 2015, after its liberation from the grip of the terrorist Houthi militia, with the support and backing of the Arab coalition, the killers began targeting many of its political, social, and educational symbols, leaders of the liberation battle, imams of mosques, and other workers in the sectors relief and humanitarian.

At a time when the people of the city were celebrating their victory and holding hope for stability, construction, and development as an interim capital in order to become a model to be emulated by the liberated Governorates, sinful hands were working to confiscate the smile and were planning to commit terrorist acts that their victims were the people of Aden, who were at the forefront of the ranks of the liberation battle, whereas these sinful hands began their criminal acts by assassinating the governor of Aden, the martyr Jaafar Muhammad Saad, through a terrorist bombing.

These assassinations were only a continuation of the role played by the Houthi militia in overthrowing the Yemeni state. This was the role that it inaugurated, starting from Saada and passing through Amran and Sanaa, whereas it practiced all forms of killing, destruction, and liquidations. The criminal assassinations that targeted prominent figures in Aden were to serve the Houthi-Imamate project. It was the victims themselves who took the lead in confronting these brutal militias coming from the caves of Saada to spread murder, devastation, and deviant ideas.

Icon of Aden, the martyr Kamadi:

The brutal assassinations continued in a way that suggested they were systematized terrorism, the evidence of which became clear later. Whereas on February 13, 2018, Sheikh Shawqi Kamadi, a member of the executive office of the Yemeni Islah Party in Aden Governorate, was shot by masked gunmen on a motorcycle while he was heading towards his workplace located in the Al-Mualla area, and then they fled.

This cowardly terrorist operation, whose anniversary comes six years after it was committed, left a wave of anger among the peaceful people of Aden. Shawqi al-Kamadi, as he is viewed by the people of his city, was one of its symbols, notables, and educators. He was also one of the opinion leaders and one of the heroes of the popular resistance to defend Aden in confronting the racist Houthi hordes of death.

The Prime Minister at the time, Dr. Ahmed Obaid bin Daghr, described the assassination of Sheikh Kamadi as “a miserable attempt to express their failure towards the cohesion of the society against which it was fighting and to reject their destructive ideas.”

The assassination of Sheikh Kamadi was considered an announcement that the series of silent killings would not stop in this city and that the systematized terrorism carried out by evil gangs was only a continuation of what the Houthi terrorist militia, which emerged from Aden defeated, failed to do.

Criminals' bullets in the heart of Aden:

The assassinations that targeted prominent figures in Aden were not only aimed at liquidating them, but rather were targeting the peaceful city that emerged victorious from confronting the Houthi militia. As much as the assassination of Kamadi was a devastating tragedy and a liquidation crime against a first-class social figure, that is added to a series of previous crimes committed against social and religious figures, it was targeting the heart of Aden, its security and social peace, with the aim of preventing it from turning into a model capital and a suitable model for the Governorates liberated from the grip of the Imamate militia.

The assassinations and liquidation operations were preceded by a systematized incitement campaign through cheap and paid mouthpieces that were working according to a complete liquidation plan to empty Aden of its political, social, cultural and religious symbols, in addition to symbols of resistance and make Aden available for projects of darkness and fragmentation after the Houthi militia failed to do so.

The Islah Party is in the crosshairs of terrorism:

From the targeted figures, it became clear that the Yemeni Islah Party was at the top of the list of targets, because most of the victims were its leaders and cadres who formed the first nucleus of the resistance to the Houthi militia and struggled until Aden was liberated, whereas one of the killers’ goals was to drag Islah Party into violence.

At that time, Mr. Ali Al-Jaradi, head of the Information and Culture Department of the Yemeni Islah Party, confirmed that this project, which manages the assassinations, aims to liquidate the south of the country of its social conscience and political bases, since the implementation was carried out with local tools and for goals related to the creation of local projects.

Mr. Adnan Al-Adini, Deputy Head of the Information and Culture Department of the Islah Party, described the situation at the time as saying that those who were not reached by the Houthi snipers during the storming of Aden, another sniper would undertake to complete the remainder of the dirty mission of targeting the living forces of society and leveling the ground for a totalitarian authority with no voice to compete with. Considering that what is happening is a political cleansing and targeting of society for the sake of future subjugation and making it lose its effective leaders so that the policy of oppression can pass without an objectionable voice.

While the Executive Office of the Islah Party in Aden confirmed in a statement obituary for Sheikh Kamadi, that the Islah Party is paying a heavy price because of its national positions and its adoption of the people’s choices, a choice that it will not deviate from no matter how abusers and delusional people try to weaken it or influence it, even though the party is not alone on this path.

Six years for a crime that will not be subject to the statute of limitations:

Six years have passed since the assassination of Shawqi Kamadi, while the case is still registered to this day against an unknown person, and is still alive in the hearts and consciences of the people of Aden and all Yemenis, who repeatedly stress that the murders and terrorism that targeted the leaders of Aden society, its symbols, and its preachers will not be subject to the statute of limitations and that history will not He has mercy on the perpetrators and their accomplices, even if they escape - for a while - from deterrent punishment and a fair trial.

While many believe that resorting to the international judiciary in the crimes of assassinations of political and social leaders in Aden has become an absolute necessity after the local judiciary proved its inability to investigate these crimes and it became clear that the influence of the killers and their supporters is stronger than the authority of the judiciary.