Is Yemen Next?
Abel
citizens have taken to the streets, to protest against the Yemeni
dictator's 3 decade rule.
Yemen is located right next to the world's biggest oil exporter, Saudi
Arabia. Furthermore, Yemen is a major oil shipping route. American
forces are very heavily involved there, trying to fight Al Qaeda cells
in Yemen, who have, over the past two years, launched some brazen
attacks against American interests.
Due to economic repression, Yemenis in the South are eager to secede
from the nation. And due to religious repression, Yemenis in the
North have staged several rebellions against the dictator of Yemen.
Meanwhile, it is beginning to appear that U.S. support for the
dictator of Yemen is counter-productive.
Yemen's long time dictator has been backed by American and Saudi
forces, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year,
because he's seen as a strongman who is capable of holding a fractious
tribal country together, but that opinion is beginning to change as
the dictator is now beginning to raise the specter of a destructive
civil war and the disintegration of Yemen.
Yemeni protesters are demanding immediate parliamentary polls and the
immediate establishment of democratic institutions.
Protesters have offered Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the
prospect of a secure retirement if, like Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, he would go quietly, unlike Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
A spokesman from the opposition offered this message to the President
of Yemen:
"Do not follow the style of Gaddafi by destroying the country and
killing people. After this long term of governing, you should say:
'Thank you my people, I leave you peacefully'."
The Yemeni government has been wracked with massive defections,
including generals, tribal leaders, diplomats and ministers. And
recent attempts to suppress dissent by the government has only led to
an increase of defections after gunmen loyal to the dictator opened
fire on peaceful demonstrators last Friday, causing the deaths of 52
people.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011318115434957754.html
Dean
Dictatorships are meant to be overthrown.
Mike Jones
If it looks too much like the end result will be a self-determined
democratic nation, then expect the west to step in and bugger that up to
maintain /their/ control of things.
PaxPerPoten
Good! That means Premier Obama is next! GRTBR!!
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