No need to throw more oil on the fire [Archives:2007/1107/Opinion]

By: Mohammed Al-Ghubari
Since the congestions' fire burnt the parties of governance, we have being pinning a great hope that the authority stops its irresponsible negligence of the risky situation, which Yemeni people nationwide are experiencing. The authority is recommended to suggest authentic solutions and cures to the exacerbating conditions, and confess the multiple unjustifiable crimes it has so far committed against its own people.

If the regime believes that force is sufficient for extinguishing the fires of rage among citizens in the southern and eastern governorates, which also extended to Taiz and Ibb, we all will find ourselves in a totally different situation, similar to that of Somalia before Seyad Bari fled the war-torn country.

Labeling voices of military retirees as lies and saying that 46 percent of the issues of those who were negatively affected by the elimination decision are impossible to convince the angry citizens believe in their fabricated credibility. And, if the government is serious enough to resolve the growing crisis, the national duty necessitates proclaiming names of those who were in service on the eve of 1994 Civil War. In case this is actually done, nobody dares say that the authority is telling lies.

Relying on the tribal groups and preferring certain areas to others will only help exacerbate the crisis. And, when the country is on the way toward living a state of lawlessness, it will be impossible for any tribal or official force to contain the resultant situations. The insulting statements, which were heard by citizens of the northern provinces, who spent the Eid Al-Fitr vacation in Aden, is a prominent proof of the wrong instigations and the arbitrary practices that have been so far exercised since the 1994 Civil War was over.

Why we don't admit that 1994 Civil War is riskier than what is happening today. Thirty years ago, the conflict was taking place between the political elites while the most important factor in ending that damnable war within two months had been the social solidarity among Yemeni people. These days, we found that citizens are instigated to clash with each other in the absence of solidarity indicators and there are invisible players who foment regionalism.

Also, we need to confess that foreign forces are fuelling the public rage among citizens who could no longer tolerate the barbaric practices abusing their basic rights and freedoms. Citizens have understood that the government is behaving in a way encouraging fragmentation among natives of the same homeland and supporting certain social groups to engage in clashes with their brothers. Later on, Yemen and the international community will realize that the government's behavior is the source of subsequent instability in the nation.

At first, the authority is responsible for the current situations and is, therefore, concerned with suggesting real solutions to its mistakes. If the authority doesn't pay any attention to its repeated mistakes, the opposition, which is concerned with criticizing mistakes of the regime and suggesting alternative programs, is required to study what is happing and estimate damage, as well as work hard on winning people's support for its workable visions in order to force the regime to reform the situations and rescue the country from a prospective collapse.

Source: Al-Nihar Daily
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