Government forces of conspiring against and despite being on the same side of the civil conflict. In independence yemen analyst a resident scholar at the middle east institute she says the stakes are high for this new rift in the country. Its going to be very dangerous they are on the same side in terms of fighting the who the or a no northern opponent out however in reality they have not been getting along for months and the southern separates us forces especially represented in the Southern Transitional council have called repeatedly to secession and feel like the time is ideal to selfdetermination and to pursue it now so it seems that although theyre fighting against a common enemy the time has come where differences amongst them are more important than just fighting that enemy and so what we see is something that was expected weve seen signs of it coming for many years actually the Southern Separatist movement have been calling for secession as early as 2007 and then very strongly