Most Yemenis just coundn’t believe it, but can it be true? Is Adam INNOCENT? [Archives:2000/44/Front Page]
October 30 2000
In the end the number of his alleged victims was reduced to 2 only, one of them being an Iraqi and the other being Yemeni called Hussn Ahmed Atya from Hamdan tribes, from the North of Sanaa.
The last session of Adams trial was held yesterday while the final sentence was postponed to November 20. The anger of the Yemeni people was enormous at the beginning but it has declined since then. Reasons behind this are the long and protracted sessions of the court and the contradictions in the confessions of the defendant. There may be other undeclared reasons which will surely be known sooner or later. Hamdan tribe will react after delivery of the final sentence. This is what the Yemen Times has been told by the tribes sheikh. The tribesmen of Hamdan say that this trial is a funny play having no other suspects whereas clearly those crimes could never have happened without the help of other accomplices.
The demands of the lawyer of the Iraqi victim havent been replied to yet regarding the receiving of the body and a compensation of two million dollars from the university.
All those who followed the trial say the decline in the public interest in this case is due to the long time consuming measures, the epidemic disease of rift valley fever, the events of Palestine and the explosion of the American destroyer Cole.
The public and relatives of the victims are waiting for the sentence impatiently. It was strongly believed that some officials sons were involved but no accusations against them have been made so far.
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