Al-Nahar [Archives:2005/888/Press Review]
13 Oct.2005
Main headlines
– New amendment of wages strategy
– Sheikh al-Zindany: The day will come when we would be proud of these accusations
– Seven Korean and Taiwanese ships suspended from fishing in Yemeni waters
– AlAsad: We would punish any Syrian involved in assassination of Al-Harriri
– GPC and the YSP approve a document ending political dispute
– Saudi accusations to Yemen of smuggling weapons to terrorists
– FM al-Qirbi: Outside opposition aims at impairing rapprochement between Yemen and Saudi Arabia
Columnist Abdulbarri Tahir writes saying all attempts of unification by force had failed and he unity was one of the data of democratic dialogue and recognition of the political and partisan pluralism that the constitution has guaranteed.
In all celebrations of the Yemeni revolution there happens to be a great attention to the comparison between the Imamate past and the revolutionary era. Despite the elapse of more than four decades, our officials and their propaganda media focus on comparison as if the past is the only witness to progress and prosperity. This desperate comparison hides a tendency for attesting the honorable record of themselves and continuation of standing at the thresholds of the entombed Imamate.
None is ungrateful that the successive governance has achieved many accomplishments in the infrastructure and in various areas in education, health and medication but the criterion of judging those accomplishments would not be in returning to the past. Yemen is still at the lowest the scale in illiteracy where it is more than 65% among men and 80% among women and there is the spread of various diseases. More than 40% of the population is still living below the line of poverty and there is up until now no just judiciary after almost half a century since the September revolution. The rounds of violence witnessed in Yemen every now and then confirm that democracy in Yemen is still unable to solve the puzzle of conflict for power and has not approached the gate of the peaceful transfer of power.
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