Houthi military spokesman Brigadier-General Yahya Sari said that, as directed by the Houthi leadership, "an official report - the first in 42 years - will include the release of new information on the horrific bloody coup that led to the assassination of President Ibrahim al-Hamdi on October 11. (1977).


Brigadier Seriei added in a Twitter account that the first official report on the assassination of Hamdi "will include the disclosure of the most prominent perpetrators of the crime under documents and testimonies."

Al-Hamdi, the third Yemeni president who ruled between 1974 and 1977, was killed along with his brother Abdullah, the commander of the Giants' forces, in mysterious circumstances in Sanaa, a political crime that continues to haunt Yemenis, given Al-Hamdi's ambition to build a modern state. Independent in Yemen is not subject to tribal loyalties and foreign influence, especially from the Saudi neighbor.

The former president was so popular that his portraits were raised in the yards and fields of demonstrations during the Yemeni youth revolution that began in 2011, after the mere utterance of his name was considered taboo.

Photos of al-Hamdi raised in the fields of demonstrations during the Yemeni youth revolution in 2011 (Reuters)

It is noteworthy that al-Hamdi ruled for less than four years, and despite the short period, Yemen has witnessed a remarkable development in the economy, with the establishment of security and stability and recovery of development, and the establishment of financial and administrative reform bodies to control government institutions to reduce administrative and financial corruption, but - in turn - froze Work on the constitution and dissolve the elected Shura Council.

During his reign, al-Hamdi pursued an anti-tribal policy, abolishing the Ministry of Tribal Affairs as a constraint to economic and social development, and transforming it into a special department providing advice under the name of "local administration".

At the end of April 2019, Al Jazeera aired an investigative investigation titled "The Last Lunch" in which it attempted to follow the clues of the Hamdi assassination. Al-Jazeera's investigation focused on the political and tribal parties raised by the late president's reforms, including the chief of staff of the armed forces, Ahmed al-Ghashmi, and the commander of the Taiz Brigade, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who later became president.

October 11, 1977 The 42nd anniversary of:

The memory of the assassination of a whole country
Assassination of the future of the people # Yemeni
Assassination of freedom, justice and good governance
Assassination of the dream, ambition and goals of all Yemenis
Where the free and honorable people still cry today

Salam alaikoum to the immortal president martyr / Ibrahim al-Hamdi pic.twitter.com/Hlu4pzhLSH

- ُ M - ِ Nab ِ eel ّ (@ M_Yemen_1756) October 11, 2019

There have been numerous accounts of al-Hamdi's liquidation after his arrival at the al-Ghashmi house opposite the Saudi embassy in Sana'a. According to Abdullah al-Hakimi, a spokesman for the leadership council under al-Hamdi's rule, only Social Affairs Minister Abdul Salam Moqbel reported what happened at Beit al-Gashmi at the time of al-Hamdi's arrival at the lunch feast.

Mokbel said that al-Hamdi's guards, who were received by al-Ghashmi and Saleh at the entrance to the house, were not allowed to enter, nor did he see his brother Abdullah with the guests. He was killed shortly before the president arrived. While waiting for lunch, Ali Abdullah Saleh and whispered in the ear of President Hamdi suddenly entered with him, and entered alone with Ghashmi to one of the rooms of the house interior.

The assassination file remained in limbo in power, but in October 2012 Yemeni activists and politicians announced new moves to open the al-Hamdi assassination file.

Assassinate the future!
On this day in 1977, Yemeni President Ibrahim al-Hamdi was assassinated following a lunch invitation at the house of his chief of staff.
His assassination was an assassination of the Yemeni state project at the same time. Assassination for the next 50 years
Just as an additional five years of his rule could have advanced Yemen fifty years

- Khalid Al Rowaishan (@k_alrowaishan) October 10, 2019

General Secretary of the Nasserite Unionist Organization Sultan al-Atwani said that work is underway to collect evidence condemning those involved in the assassination of the former president and bring them to the local and international judiciary, pointing to the preparations for the establishment of a national body to demand the opening of the assassination file.

Mohammed al-Hamdi, the elder brother of former president Ibrahim al-Hamdi, accused late president Ali Abdullah Saleh of killing his brother with a pistol equipped with a silencer in front of Ahmed al-Ghashmi and at his home in Sanaa, in an interview published by the government newspaper "Al-Gomhouria".