- Ali Nasir Muhammad
Ali Nasir Muhammad ( _ar. علي ناصر محمد الحسني) (born 1939) was twice
president of thePeople's Democratic Republic of Yemen . He served as Chairman of the Presidential Council from26 June 1978 -27 December 1978 . In April 1980, South Yemeni presidentAbdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile. His successor was Ali Nasir Muhammad who took a less interventionist stance toward bothNorth Yemen and neighbouringOman . OnJanuary 13 ,1986 , a violent struggle began inAden between Ali Nasir's supporters and supporters of the returned Ismail. Fighting lasted for more than a month and resulted in thousands of casualties, Ali Nasir's ouster, and Ismail's death. Muhammad's term had lasted from21 April 1980 to24 January 1986 . Some 60,000 people, including the deposed Ali Nasir, fled to North Yemen. He was succeeded byHaidar Abu Bakr al-Attas .Mohammed was a member of the National Front, ar. الجبهة القومية (NF) as well as the
Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP - الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني ) after the YSP was formed from the UPONF in October 1978.References
* "Russian Translation" (2006) - Russian TV political detective serial: the first four scenes are giving the fictionized version of Aden 1986 civil war between Ali Nasir Muhammad and the opposition in YSP.
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