Short-lived southern secessionist state of the 1994 Yemeni civil war. On 21 May 1994 Ali Salim al-Beidh and the southern leadership of the Yemeni Socialist Party proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Yemen at Aden, reviving the former South Yemen against the four-year-old unified Republic of Yemen. It won no international recognition and collapsed when northern forces captured Aden on 7 July 1994.
Defeated in the 1994 civil war; northern forces captured Aden on 7 July 1994, ending the secession and restoring unified Republic of Yemen control over the south.
Standard scholarly history covering the 1990 unification and the 1994 civil war in which the south seceded as the Democratic Republic of Yemen.
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