Yemenis demand re-opening of al-Hamdi’s assassination investigation

Members of Al Qaeda in Yemen Sanaa – Ali Rabea Thousands of Yemenis chanted the names of the alleged perpetrators of former President Ibrahim al-Hamdi’s assassination, who was assassinated in 1977. They demanded the suspects to be brought to justice. Leftist movements organised protests in several Yemeni cities, where the demonstrators waved pictures of the late president.
The Yemeni Nasserite party claimed that the assassination of al-Hamdi was an attack against the national unity of Yemen.  
Thousands of Yemenis remembered President al-Hamdi on the 34th anniversary of his death.
The demonstrators marched in several Yemeni cities including Sanaa, Taiz, Ibb and Dhamar accusing former president Saleh of being involved in the assassination of al-Hamdi.
In Sanaa, the demonstration was led by human rights activists and al-Hamdi's supporters who marched in the streets of the city towards the Martyrs Cemetery where al-Hamdi and his brother rest.
The Yemeni Nasserite party urged the authorities to reopen the investigation about al-Hamdi's assassination in order to reveal the identity of the murderers and to bring them to justice.
The former Yemeni President Ibrahim al-Hamdi ruled North Yemen for almost three years. He and his brother Abdullah – who was a powerful military leader, were assassinated on November 11, 1977 in a mysterious incident. The official investigations were closed by the successive authorities.
There are different theories about the al-Hamdi’s assassination, but the common denominator is that the perpetrators were allegedly against al-Hamdi’s development project.
Ahmad al-Ghashmi succeeded to al-Hamdi, but he was killed only a few months after taking office in an explosion, believed to have been orchestrated by the President of South Yemen, Salem Rabea Ali.
According to Yemeni affairs analysts, Salem Rabea Ali wanted to take revenge for the death of al-Hamdi, who was very good friend with him and both had common projects to unite Yemen, according to sources.
Al-Hamdi led a military coup against former President Abd al-Rahman al-Iryani. He became his successor launching the Revolutionary Correction Movement, inspired by the late Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser's spirit and the Arab national leftist ideas.
According to the registered sources of Yemeni politicians, al-Hamdi boycotted Yemeni tribes attempting to enforce the law and look after people's concerns in a dream of an ambitious national project.
This wasn't appreciated by internal and external powers of Yemen, which led to a conspiracy against him to eliminate the ambitious military commander Ibrahim al-Hamdi.
He was assassinated in a famous lunch, known to his Yemeni supporters as "the last Supper".