Dream and Demon [Archives:2000/43/Focus]

Mahammad Al-hakimi
When they struggled to release their country people from the many-faceted era of inequity and murkiness, insurgents had envisaged a glorious future that would bring about real development and would never let Yemen be re-cast into the vortex of tyranny and backwardness.
Today none can ignore the fact that Yemens witnessed many improvements. It has been able to achieve glorious enterprises and services and encourage people to share the world progress and try to probe the scientific revolutions and technological experminations being made around the world toady. One such civilized projects Yemen has witnessed are democracy and re-unification.
However, it has of late been cast into the vortex of corruption and blunder to a great extent. Its true that Yemen has proved to be amiable and peaceloving; yet its people are confronted with instability which is the soul of life and its future prospects have begun to decline. Now corruption is covering almost every official sector. It has influenced king-pins; people in positions of responsibility; and the low from the common laiety.
And those tragic pictures of the present-day occurrences at ministries, official offices, hospitals, schools, markets, streets, universities, judiciary and those of the deterioration of the budget, hiking of prices, and the increasing number of unemployment, and the absence of accountability are all considerable evidence of the forfeiture of the revolutions goals.
What we should not lose sight of is the fact that our president Ali Abdullah Saleh has done miracles to improve Yemen. In fact, those miracles have been recorded with letters of gold by history. Yet many people holding positions of responsibility around him are distorting his achievements and the face of Yemen in general.
I hope what will follow will add towards mounting a vehement revolution against those corrupt people who are gnawing their countrys entity making selfish use of their power and political affiliation along with those who are lying in wait for the extermination of Yemen. Lets act, in closing, in tandem along with our president to really re-fulfill what Yemen and revolutions have aspired for the verse in the Holy Quran O those who believe, fear Allah and be with the honest, is a tested one.

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