Aidros Zubeidi, the leader of the Southern Transitional Council, a separatist group in Yemen supported by the United Arab Emirates, has made his first public appearance in recent months. In a simple room, with behind him a map and the flag of his desired country for South Yemen, Idros Zubeidi called for a "general mobilization" in South Yemen. This six-minute speech was delivered on the occasion of the sixty-third anniversary of what he called "the glorious revolution of October 14"; A revolution that started an armed rebellion against British rule in Aden and its surroundings in 1963.