Al-Wahdawi [Archives:2006/946/Press Review]
9May 2006.
Main headlines
– Tribal armed clashes in Ibb
– JMP to the President: Existing election record torpedoes legitimacy of upcoming elections results
– Arab National Conference elects new general secretariat
– JMP leaderships meet civil society organizations
– Foreign Policy Magazine: Yemen among 16 most unstable countries in the world in 2006
– Watani Bank depositors sue the Central Bank of Yemen
– NUO's assistant secretary general Al-Rada'ie: We won't enter elections as false witnesses, elections supreme commission changed into adversary
– Political Security in Ibb arrests director of Jibla hospital
– Lawyers demand dismissal of the Attorney General
Writer Abdullah Abdulaleem says the Yemeni unity has constituted a national gain for the people of Yemen who have struggled and offered the dearest sacrifices for the achievement of this great goal that has been one of the aims and principles of the revolutions of 26 September and 14 October.
Our people in the north and the south maintained their defense of the revolution and continued their struggle for the accomplishment of this goal that was realized on 22 May 1990. Thousands of Yemeni strugglers had fallen during stages of the national struggle and the national movement had offered many martyrs who had fallen after the unification of the homeland under feeble justifications and aims void of any content. It has tangibly been proved in the events of the war of 1994 summer that claimed around 11 thousand deaths and losses estimated at $ 12 billion.
Today we are celebrating this great historical event at its 16th anniversary, we wonder about what we find of development happened to the Yemeni reality. It is a reality moving from bad to worse, represented by the price doses, from which the people are suffering, the corruption at various levels, and the increase of the volume of unemployment that is expanding inside the society including the youth of both sexes.
What happens in the country is regrettable despite of the capabilities that are squandered by people unqualified for preserving the public property, especially while we are raising the slogan of reform which is not actually practiced.
Is it possible now to review what we have negatively practiced and to begin building a better future and eliminate the corrupt in all of the state institutions, to apply what is submitted on many occasions and to change those slogans into reality?
The change requires a strong will and a courageous political stand. Has time come to practically translate that, given the fact that the Yemeni unity has accomplished great tasks, mainly ending the division for good? With the realization of the unity a greatest achievement has been done, i.e. the achievement of democracy, political pluralism, the freedom of political parties to work inside the society, the freedom of change, the freedom of the press and establishment of non-governmental civil society organizations and societies.
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