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Yemen protest victims seek justice
[Iran Press TV] Families of victims of the brutal Yemeni crackdown on anti-government protests have rejected the regime's compensation offers, demanding that its ruler be brought to justice in a trial.According to local sources, at least 300 people have been killed and tens of thousands maimed since the protests began at the end of January. Families of the victims accuse President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... of ordering the killings. They have also refused the finical compensation offered by the Saleh regime, saying they only want the long-time president to be brought to justice. "My father will never rest unless the regime faces trial," said a little girl who has lost her father in the violent crackdowns. In the mean time, a number of human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations have condemned the use of excessive force against the protestors. "This regime is killing more people every day. We receive the deaders' names and then we submit them to the general attorney for future prosecution," Mohammad al-Aroosi, a human rights activist, told Press TV. Inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, people continue to organize anti-government demonstrations in the Yemeni capital Sana'a and other major cities. The Yemeni people who are suffering from lack of basic human rights, equality, justice and freedom of speech say they will rest only after scrapping the corrupt rule of Saleh. The latest development comes two days after the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council granted Saleh immunity from prosecution in exchange for his stepping down and handing power over to his Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi in thirty days. According to the plan, the opposition will be allowed to form an interim national unity government after the president signs the deal. Reports say both Saleh and Yemen's opposition have accepted the plan. However, The ever-popular However... opposition groups believe Saleh's verbal acceptance of the plan is merely a ploy. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-28 |
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