Press Review [Archives:2001/01/Press Review]

As-Sahwa weekly, 27 Dec. 2001
The newspaper’s editorial for this week says any observer can realize that the Yemeni people and all their forces are united in rejecting violence and at the same time keen on social peace and security. They consider that as among the national constants that preserve for the individual and the society their stability and help them confront the challenges with a constructive responsibility.
Out of this concept we realize that the genuine approach for a Yemen free from violence and without terror is that pertaining to keenness on domination of the law and the constitution, the two elements that have regulated the rights and obligations among officials at various levels and positions. This situation alone guarantees the spread of security and stability and by which we can confront anyone breaking the law. It also prevents confiscation of any right of any citizen even if he is an object of accusation.
The editorial goes on to mention that since the events of 11 September that shocked the whole world the Yemenis, both leadership and people, have demonstrated a level of interaction showing the Yemen as a country rejecting violence of whatever source, and confirming others rights as stipulated in international laws and conventions.
The editorial has further said we yearn for a homeland void of injustice, corruption and suppression, resorting to law as real approaches to development and construction. All that would not be attained unless all would understand their responsibilities for protecting the constitution and the law as ways leading to security and development and spread of the spirit of confidence through commitment to transparency and dialogue, the newspaper’s editorial concluded.
At-Thawra daily, 29 Dec. 2001
The newspaper has devoted its editorial to discuss Muscat GCC summit saying the meting of GCC leaders beginning in Muscat on Sunday 30 Dec. acquires its importance as it is the first meeting of these leaders following the international and regional variables dictated by results of 11 September. Proceeding from this fact observers expect that Muscat summit would be distinguished by vitality of the issues to be discussed in the light of the international developments and their sensitivity and significance.
Stemming from the distinguished relationship between Yemen and these countries, bilaterally and collectively, and the ties of kinship and neighborhood the Yemenis express towards them great feelings regarding any success realized within this grouping.
Yemen is quite confident of the possibility that GCC Muscat summit would come out with fruitful outcomes on the road of activating factors of integration paving the way for a broader Arab market realizing the Arab dream they have been looking forward to see for more than 35 years.
Al-Ra’aie Al-A’am weekly, 25 Dec. 2001
The newspaper’s editorial says it goes without saying that the establishment of the institutional state has become a national necessity and an urgent popular demand. To attain this goal is the responsibility of all, whether in power or the opposition parties, political organizations, mass organizations, trade unions, tribe chieftains and personalities.
Imposing the state prestige is a joint collective responsibility. When the authority chases people wanted for justice in a certain area, inhabitants of that area must offer cooperation with the state to arrest those wanted persons so that to bring them to justice according to the law. To harbor those wanted people and hide them b a tribe sheikh or any group of people a great calamity contradicting the law and norm.
The editorial continues to confirm in this respect that there must be a support for imposing the state prestige in order that the law is applied to all and against the act of scoring and settling personal accounts. Such a stand is rejected altogether.
We further affirm, the editorial maintains, that stabilization of the state of law and order would not be achieved but by joint forces of the state and its apparatuses on the one hand and the people as a whole on the other hand, the responsibility is for all.
RAY weekly, organ of Sons of Yemen League party, 25 Dec. 2001
In its editorial for this week the RAY newspaper says what is happening in the county nowadays and the state it is experiencing is rather a heartbreaking situation. destroying the buds of hope in future. People are killed, shrapnels scatter and blood paints our days.
There is no difference in detecting who are the killers and whom are the victims, for both are sons of this country. We do not have enough time to lose in a byzantine discussion on complications of each event individually because in doing so there might be other victims to fall and more complicated problems to come out.
Vision has now become clearer. The situation is no longer standing prevarication and obstinacy and mere military or security treatment. It is no longer possible to study each event in a manner separated from the general context of the bulk of disasters especially depicting the situation in areas of Khawlan, Dhalie, Abyan and Mareb. Tension has become the characteristic of these areas, and loss of confidence among the various groups has become the overwhelming adjective.
What is inevitable is to have a sincere patriotic and scientific stand reading accurately the situation and dealing with sons of these areas in a language distant from incrimination and accusation. It must be a review rectifying the treatments that corrupted state of affairs. There must be a stand where the law is the sole sovereign and the refuge. After that let the state deal is blows with an iron fist to whoever breaks the law.
Al-Ihya’a al-Arabi weekly, 25 Dec. 2001
In its editorial the weekly likens madness of the U.S. White House to the British Mad Cow disease if not being a copy of it. The editorial maintains that the American administration is no longer able to comprehend the changeables around it because it has become hostage of the Zionist whim that is thirsty for peoples’ blood and imposition of its hegemony through its facade ” the White House and Bush administration.”
There are many of those working for news media satellite of the American-Zionist information who have raised too many questions on what is going to happen after the mass massacres and destruction carried out during the American aggression on Afghanistan, the editorial added.
Those people have elaborated in their queries and analyzes with regard to the American-Zionist program aimed at taming peoples of the world and domesticating the Arab and Islamic regimes in order to pass the American-Zionist scheme in Palestine and Iraq and to contain the Arab mentality and clamp a siege on masses of the Arab nation via the domesticated regimes, mercenary writers and other agents that have given up themselves and surrendered to Bush and war criminal Sharon.
The weekly editorial further says that time has come when the Arab masses should ask what is next after the disclosure of the conspiracy aimed at uprooting the Palestinian people and expansion of the aggression to extend to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan and Somalia. The Arab masses are directing their queries to the Arab regimes and the Arab League at this crucial circumstance and await their response, the editorial concluded.
Ath-Thawri weekly, organ of the YSP, 27 Dec. 2001
Ali Naji Saeed has said in an article that there is much talk and fuss published by official media on accomplishments under the government of the People’s General Congress party. These media also mention about the prosperity the people are enjoying in various fields and levels. When the Yemeni citizen listens to the information and political address thinks those are talking about gains realized in another homeland because reality shows something quite different than what is said in the media. The Yemeni citizen suffers more misery and more poverty. High cost of living and corruption are factors gnawing at his body.
The Yemeni citizen has not now experienced the dignified life. He has not entertained security and stability and has neither exercised democracy in its proper way nor enjoyed an equal citizenship under the regime of the ruling party. He has not been able to preserve the gains achieved during the totalitarian period either. Among the gains we have lost at present is the discarding of human conscience which seems to be in a long vacation.
The author concludes that we should understand that when the government speaks about prosperity and accomplishments they mean to talk about themselves and their conditions.
26 September weekly, organ of Yemen Armed Forces, 27 Dec. 2001
The editorial of the newspaper has this week been devoted to discuss the theme of security as supportive and completing stability without which there would be no development. The editorial says in every country there are enemies of security endeavoring to sabotage stability and general peace and of course having their own special reasons.
Yemen is one of those countries threatened by such elements. Such elements see that they are out of the reach of law and resorting to crime or violence or terror is to their thinking as the short-cut way to achieve benefits or fame.
For many years Yemen has been facing multi-forms of crimes. Such crimes have taken forms of kidnapping foreigners, or blasting oil pipelines or what happened in Aden in 1993 in the attempt to blast two hotels there or what happened to British tourists in Abyan governorate at the hands of some extremists affiliate to what then was called the Aden-Abyan army. Added to those was the attack on the USS Cole destroyer at Aden port in October 2000 and many other acts against security and stability. All those acts have damaged the national economy and offended Yemen’s reputation, interests and relation with others.
The continuous confrontation with perpetrators of such acts was therefore an urgent task the security and military apparatuses have always been undertaking as out of the high sense of national responsibility and in implementation of the duty the armed forces are entrusted with, i.e. consolidation of security and stability in the society in general.
It seems surprising and bewildering when some people inside and from outside deal with the security and military campaign carried out by the government to track down some of the wanted elements accused of committing anti-security acts and against the law. Some of them have gone too far by interpreting what the government has done to protect its security and citizens as an act for appeasing this international party or that, or in response to pressures and such other interpretations.
Those voices should have acknowledged the Yemeni efforts for serving security and peace both regionally and internationally because it is a Yemeni conviction stemming from the feeling of humanity need for stability and peace and repulsion of violence and hatred.

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