READER COMMENTS

Most the Yemeni citizens who are displaced from their country do not wish to return to it once again. There are many countries, particularly the Gulf countries, that have the ability and the potential to help those refugees from what they possess regarding giant financial capacity that will give them the ability to help the Yemeni refugees and provide them with everything that they need.

Since the beginning of the current turmoil, it is claimed that a wide range of human rights violations have occurred throughout the country and many of these allegations are related to the excessive use of force against the peaceful demonstrators by the State security forces and its bodies, as well as other allegations concerning the various clashes between demonstrators supporting and opposing the government, the armed tribes, Islamic militants, the government security forces, and some dissidents. Every time the attention of the Yemeni people turned to follow the steps that lead to the desired change according to the established benefits in the Gulf initiative and its executive mechanisms and the higher their expectations were to move towards the promised future, the more they found themselves confronting the weight of the past and the complexities of the present.

The situation in Yemen is escalating between the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and the Yemeni security forces. Al-Qaeda adopted a strategy to control Yemen and seize a number of cities and governorates like Abyan, Zanjabar, and Rida’ and they declared the establishment of their Islamic emirates before they withdraw from them because of the interference of the tribal leaders. Al-Qaeda also sought to control the oil-rich areas in the southern Yemen and it adopted the policy of assassinations against their opponents. Al-Qaeda started its battle in Abyan with a campaign of assassination of the intelligence officers in the governorates of Aden, Lahj and Abyan after the infiltration by these institutions and entry of the tribes into an undeclared alliance with the state to tighten their grip around the neck of al-Qaeda and killing many members of the army. This seems to be a turning point in the Yemeni scene because al-Qaeda widened the circle of confrontation.

The peaceful youth revolution of change broke out in Yemen as a result of the political, economic, and social and security grievances. The south was exposed to severe injustice, exclusion and unfairness against it and against the national company in a united State, especially after the unjust war of 1994 and the devastating catastrophic impacts that accompanied filtering its State and financial regulations and the demobilization of the military and civilian staff, looting its territory and wealth, denying of political and civil rights in the North. The province of Saada, with its cities and villages, was subjected to grievances over the years and the wars waged by the system that amounted to six years and was subjected to severe damage and the fall of thousands of victims. As for nation, the political, financial, and administrative corruption had intensified and the looting of public money has become a systematic policy. The gap between the authority and the community increased and the contradiction between them deepened. Unemployment and poverty among the people were widespread and the democratic margin which came with the unity retreated, thus harassment of freedoms of the press took place and many of them were closed, and the owners of the opinion were prosecuted. We are facing a new stage at all levels, the political, economic, and social ones, and it is a historic opportunity for real change that transferred Yemen to the stage of building a civil and modern state and restoring the Cultural Renaissance project that meets the requirements of the people, the peaceful youth revolution.