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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Following a meeting that gathered thousands of residents of the southern governorate of Ma'an Monday evening, a statement was issued calling on King Abdullah II to intervene to put an end to what residents described as "deliberate" attempts to undermine tribes by pitting them against each other.

The residents of Ma'an, about 200 kilometers southwest of the capital Amman, threatened in a statement on Monday to carryout "complete civil disobedience" as a result of what they considered "the deterioration of the stature of the state, and systemized disregard of the state to society and human dignity."

The governorate of Ma'an witnessed increasing crime and acts of violence in the past few months, particularly with implications of the violent and deadly clashes that erupted in Al Hussein bin Talal University in Ma'an in April, that left four dead and dozens wounded.

The university clashes escalated outside campus, with angry members of the Hweitat Tribe (which lost two of its members in the university clashes) blockading the major desert highway and setting up "check points" looking for Ma'an residents in a means to seek revenge.

The statement on Monday warned against "dragging the country into chaos and pitting tribes against each other, and striking their unity."

"The residents of Ma'an are shocked by the repeated attacks on its residents," the statement said, noting a recent attack on a Ma'an resident in the Jafar region near the Disi Water Conveyance Project, weeks after two others were killed and two more injured in the same region.

The repeated attacks are a result of the security mismanagement by authorities, leading some outlaws to take advantage, the statement said, stressing that perpetrators of the mentioned crimes have not been arrested or tried in court.

"This reflects the state of deteriorating security conditions that includes murder, highway blocking, auto theft, and drug dealing in the area," the statement added.

Those in attendance at Monday's meeting agreed on the need for the King to intervene directly to address the crisis there and "stop the conspiracies being woven against the state and the regime," the statement said.

The statement highlighted the urgency of the plea by Ma'an residents, citing a measure to pit Jordanian tribes against each other for "political purposes," including the Israeli scheme of an Alternative homeland for Palestinians in Jordan (confederacy scheme), and the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

"We are warning against dragging the country towards chaos, striking the tribes and their unity.. If the state continues in its inaction and disregard of its duties; the citizens of Ma'an will carry out a comprehensive civil disobedience," the statement, signed by 56 Ma'an dignitaries, stressed.