Al-Thawry [Archives:2003/667/Press Review]

4 Sept. 2003
Main headlines:
– Politicians and researchers warn against continuation of violence
– In the capital, armed gangs kill and commit armed robbery
– Aden security bodies storm headquarters of women union
Columnist Mohammed Qassem Nouman says in his article that corruption is the other face of terror with its danger and impact on people and their life and security. Talking on terror's ugliness and harm cannot be separated from the danger and damage of corruption in different walks of life, political, social, economic and cultural.
Despite the expansion of the campaign against corruption some began to interpret it as a one in favour of real corruption and a kind of protection of it and the corrupt. In tackling the question of corruption we have to mention about the role of political parties in fighting it, as it has revealed the difficulty of political, economic and cultural reform to which the parties are yearning for and work for realizing it. It is also because corruption is the severest danger facing the society, development social security and living reality of the people.
We as citizens do not feel that the opposition political parties' stand in particular as actually changed into a political, economic, social and cultural task of these parties. We do truly read in press meetings and talks by leaders of the parties a stand attacking corruption but we mostly feel mere talk rather than action on the ground. We have not yet tangibly felt that these stands have changed into a joint working program of these parties for encountering corruption, disclosing its places and symbols.
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