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Parliament Order to Investigate Enforced Disappearances in Yemen
[Yemen Post] Yemen's House of Representatives ordered on Monday the freedoms and human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
committee to coordinate with the interior ministry to probe the issue of the people who enforcedly disappeared and submit a report on that as soon as possible.

The order comes amid calls by the families of scores of those who disappeared during the 2011 popular uprising and the past years, organizations and the public to find out about the disappearances.

The freedoms and human rights committee, however, has been criticized by MPs who described it as dead and can't live up to the responsibility of following up the issue.

The MPs have called on the House to reshape the committee since some of its members are currently busy with 'special matters'.

Apart from this topic, MPs urged to form a panel to probe the crash of the military transport plane in downtown Yemen's capital Sanaa on Thursday and the crash of the Yemenia plane off Comoros few years ago.

MP Nabil Al-Basha said a lot of airways have already started to reconsider sending flights to Sanaa after the crash of Antonov An-6 which killed the 10-member crew on the ground a terrorist act was behind the tragedy.

"There should be a special panel to investigate the crashes of the Yemeni planes at a time when the country's space is full of foreign planes and terrorist groups have heavy weapons including missiles," Al-Basha said.

Posted by: Fred 2012-11-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=356909