Yemen Offers Amnesty for Saudi-Backed Militants If Lay down Arms

The Supreme Political Council on Sunday also declared that Ansarullah was ready to halt retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia if they stopped airstrikes.
 
Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015, with the UN putting the death toll from the military aggression at over 10,000. The offensive was launched to reinstate Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a Saudi ally who had resigned as Yemen’s president.
 
The Head of the Supreme Political Council, Saleh al-Samad also preconditioned any halt of operations to the lifting of a Saudi siege imposed on his country.
 
"[In exchange for] stopping the aggression against our country by land, sea and air, stopping the airstrikes and lifting the siege imposed on our country, in return (we will) stop combat operations on the border," he said.
 
Addressing the armed supporters of refuge Yemeni president Mansur Hadi, Mr. Saleh al-Samad urged them to put down weapons and rejoin a national fold guaranteed by a comprehensive amnesty.
 
"[We call] all fighters on the side of the aggression on the various fronts to respond to a general amnesty and come back into the national fold," he said.
 
Last month, the council was formed from a coalition between the Ansarullah movement and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party.