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Yemen steps up crackdown on newspapers
Yemen wants Saudi to block cash for separatists

SANAA (AlArabiya.net, Agencies)
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will ask King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to block the flow of funds from Yemeni expatriates to separatists in the south, a Yemeni government source said on Sunday.

Yemen, which is trying to shake off an image of violence to promote its tourism sector, has witnessed frequent clashes between government forces and protesters in the south, where secessionist sentiment is strong.
"Saleh will be discussing the situation in Yemen with King Abdullah, and the activities of some of the Yemeni opposition living in Saudi Arabia," the source said.

The talks will tackle "measures against individuals raising donations to support the protests in the south," he said.

Saleh was due to arrive on Sunday in the kingdom, which hosts tens of thousands of Yemeni expatriates, mainly laborers seeking higher income.

People in the south, home to most of Yemen's oil facilities, have complained that northerners abuse their unity agreement to grab their resources and discriminate against them.

"I think Saudi Arabia is very worried what is happening in Yemen because Saudi Arabia has an 800-kelometer (494-mile) long border with Yemen," said Khaled Dakhil, a Saudi political analyst.

On Sunday four Yemenis, including a policeman, were killed and 13 others wounded after two days of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in southern Yemen, medics and witnesses said.

The deaths bring the toll of Yemenis killed since demonstrations broke out in the south in late April to sixteen, including five security force members. The Sanaa government has blamed the protests on southern separatists.

Protesters chanted slogans against the government, which is controlled by northerners, and carried posters of Ali Nasser Mohammed, the former president of South Yemen, which was united with North Yemen in 1990.
Crackdown on media
The president has warned against the risks of Yemen breaking up into "several entities" as the government stepped up its crackdown on media accused of inciting violence.

The Yemeni Information Ministrys also banned eight independent newspapers and charged their editors-in-chief with inciting violence, Al Arabiya TV reported Saturday.

The papers, all shuttered in early May, published a series of articles about the recent clashes between government forces and protestors from the south of the country. The government said the reports jeopardized Yemen’s national unity.

Reporters and editors-in-chief at the banned papers, which include al-Masdar, al-Nedaa, al-Mustakillah, al-Ayam, al-Deyar, and the website Mukalla Press, are to be tried on charges of instigating violence as well as encouraging armed conflict and supporting separatist movements.

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Yemen wants Saudis to block cash for separatists

RIYADH, May 31 (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will ask King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to block the flow of funds from Yemeni expatriates to separatists in the south, a Yemeni government source said on Sunday.

Yemen, which is trying to shake off an image of violence to promote its tourism sector, has witnessed clashes between government forces and protesters in the south, where secessionist sentiment is strong.

"Saleh will be discussing the situation in Yemen with King Abdullah, and the activities of some of the Yemeni opposition living in Saudi Arabia," the Yemeni government source said.

The talks will tackle "measures against individuals raising donations to support the protests in the south", he said before Saleh's departure to the kingdom, Yemen's wealthy neighbour which hosts tens of thousands of Yemeni expatriates, mainly labourers seeking higher income.

Saudi state-run television, reporting the arrival of Saleh, said the talks would focus on bilateral ties, regional issues and joint efforts to fight terrorism and piracy.

People in the south, home to most of Yemen's oil facilities, have complained that northerners abuse their unity agreement to grab their resources and discriminate against them.

Saudi Arabia and Yemen, one of the poorest countries outside Africa, are allies of the United States and are partners in the fight against al Qaeda-linked Islamists.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has said it fears instability in Yemen could allow it to become a launch pad for a revival of a 2003-2006 campaign by al Qaeda militants to destabilise the rule of the Al Saud family.

"The Saudis are really concerned about instability in Yemen. You hear it all the time from them," said a Western diplomat in Riyadh.

Last week, minority Shi'ites asked the Saudi government to end discrimination in the remote Najran province bordering Yemen.

In 2000, Najran was the scene of clashes between the police and hundreds of Ismailis, followers of a Shi'ite sect.

"I think Saudi Arabia is very worried what is happening in Yemen because Saudi Arabia has a 800-km (494-mile) long border with Yemen," said Khaled Dakhil, a Saudi political analyst.

"I think there are so many things they (Saudis) could do; intelligence, political, financial (help)." (Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari in Sanaa and Ulf Laessing in Riyadh; Editing by Richard Balmforth)


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Jemens brüchige Einheit
03.06.2009

Nicht nur Deutschland feiert 20 Jahre Mauerfall. Auch der Jemen überwand 1990 seine Teilung. Doch die jemenitische Einheit ist brüchig. Das Goethe-Institut bringt in Sanaa Künstler aus beiden Landesteilen zusammen.

Im Hof des Nationalmuseums von Sanaa mischen sich Nord und Süd, als sei die jemenitische Einheit beispielhaft vollendet. Die Kulisse gehört unverkennbar in den Norden: Hochhäuser aus gebrannten Lehmziegeln, ihre Fenster verziert mit weißem Gips. Die Folklore, die aus dem Kassettenrekorder dudelt, stammt dagegen aus dem Süden: Der Sänger mit der Laute kommt aus der Nähe von Aden. Die Künstler, die hier mit Acryl und Ölfarbe ihre Leinwände bemalen, arbeiten Hand in Hand: die schwarz verschleierte Malerin aus Sanaa Seite an Seite mit dem Bildhauer aus Aden.

"Wir haben viele Gemeinsamkeiten, wir wurden im gleichen Jahr vereinigt", sagt der Maler Kamal al-Makrami, der aus Aden stammt. Er findet das vor allem deswegen so spannend, weil er selbst schon einmal in Deutschland war und die Geschichte der Teilung kennt. Acht Künstler hat das Goethe-Institut in Sanaa zusammengebracht: vier aus dem einst sozialistischen Südjemen und vier aus dem Norden. Ihre Aufgabe: die Gestaltung von Mauersteinen. Die mit Leinwand bespannten Styroporblöcke stehen symbolisch für die Berliner Mauer. Am 9. November sollen sie in Deutschland wie Dominosteine vor dem Brandenburger Tor fallen.

Riesige Unterschiede zwischen Aden und Sanaa
Auf seinen Mauerstein malt Makrami eine Faust, die eine schwarz-rot-goldene Flagge umfasst. Auf die Rückseite kommen zwei Ölfässer. "Die sollen an den Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin erinnern", erklärt der 48-Jährige. "Aber zugleich geht es mir auch um die jemenitische Vergangenheit, denn Checkpoints gibt es hier auch."

Im gleichen Jahr wie die Bundesrepublik und die DDR schlossen sich ganz im Süden der Arabischen Halbinsel auch zwei völlig unterschiedliche Staaten zur Republik Jemen zusammen: der einst sozialistische Südjemen mit der Hauptstadt Aden und die von konservativ-islamischen Stämmen geprägte Republik mit der Hauptstadt Sanaa im gebirgigen Norden. So wie es in Deutschland Differenzen zwischen Ossis und Wessis gibt, lästern auch die Jemeniten übereinander: Die Sozialisten im Süden gelten als "gottlose Biertrinker", umgekehrt ziehen die Bewohner des Südens über die "rückständigen Stammeskrieger" im Norden her.

Kein echter Zusammenschluss

Auch der Maler Makrami kommt sich in dem von Krummdolchträgern bevölkerten Sanaa oft noch wie ein Fremder vor. "Es gibt riesige Unterschiede zwischen Aden und Sanaa", sagt er. "Vor der Vereinigung waren das die Hauptstädte von zwei unterschiedlichen Ländern. Ich bin viel durch Europa gereist damals, aber im Nordjemen bin ich nie gewesen." Doch der Maler fühlt sich nicht nur fremd. Ihn belastet auch das Gefühl der Benachteiligung: Jetzt nach der Vereinigung dominiere der Norden, klagt er: "Wir im Süden mussten unsere Traditionen aufgeben, Frauen müssen sich heute verschleiern, vieles hat sich geändert für uns."

Wirklich eins ist der Jemen nie geworden. Zwar gelang es dem seit drei Jahrzehnten amtierenden Präsidenten Ali Abdullah Saleh bis heute, das Land zusammenzuhalten, indem er Geld und Ämter verteilte. Doch das wird schwieriger, denn die Ressourcen gehen aus. Der Jemen ist eines der ärmsten Länder der Welt, Öl und Wasser werden knapp. Das sorgt vor allem im Süden für Unmut, wo die letzten Ölvorräte liegen, aber wenig von den Einnahmen ankommt. Diese Kombination aus Wirtschaftskrise und Misstrauen führte bereits vor 15 Jahren dazu, dass die Sozialisten wieder die Abspaltung erklärten – Auftakt für einen Bürgerkrieg, in dem der Norden endgültig über den Süden siegte.

Wer heute die Zentrale der Sozialisten in Sanaa besucht, kann erahnen, wie wenig Macht die Partei noch hat. Das Gebäude ist heruntergekommen, der große Sitzungssaal verwaist. Abspaltung sei für seine Partei heute kein Thema mehr, versichert Fraktionschef Aiderus an-Nagib. Über die Proteste im Süden, wo bereits Hunderttausende auf die Straße gingen, habe seine Partei keine Kontrolle. Die Regierung müsse dringend handeln. "Die Machthaber haben den Süden lange als ihr Eigentum betrachtet", sagt er. "Sie haben sich Ländereien und Besitz unter den Nagel gerissen und die Menschen vertrieben. Mit dieser Ungerechtigkeit muss jetzt Schluss sein."

Proteste gegen die Einheit
Die Regierung müsse Ämter, Land und Immobilien an jene zurückgeben, denen sie gehören, fordert Nagib. Mehr als 200.000 Beamte und Soldaten dürften seit dem Bürgerkrieg nicht mehr zur Arbeit gehen. "Sie müssen endlich ihre Jobs zurückerhalten und für die letzten 15 Jahre entschädigt werden." Lange hat Präsident Saleh diese Forderungen ignoriert. Doch die Proteste im Süden werden immer lauter, das Militär schießt scharf auf die Demonstranten. Nun warnt Saleh selbst davor, das Land könne in Stämme und Clans zerfallen, sollte Aden sich tatsächlich abspalten.

Während in Sanaa noch die Mauersteine bemalt werden, gehen in Aden wieder Tausende auf die Straße und protestieren gegen die Einheit. Der 20. Jahrestag der Vereinigung im kommenden Jahr sei nicht nur Grund zur Freude, das sagt auch der Maler Makrami, als er die Faust auf seiner Leinwand skizziert. "Manche werden feiern, andere nicht, da bin ich sicher." Doch welchen Ausweg gibt es aus der Krise? "Jene, die die Macht in ihren Händen haben, müssen an ihr Land denken", sagt Makrami. "Sie müssen einfach mal überlegen: Was wir tun – ist das gut für unser Land, oder nur gut für uns? Dann werden sie ganz schnell den Ausweg finden", sagt der Maler.

Autor: Klaus Heymach
Redaktion: Anne Allmeling

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و الترجمة على شبكة خليج عدن

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Jemen: Erneut Toter und Verletzte bei Demonstration

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In der Stadt Dali, im Süden des Jemen sind während einer Demonstration durch Schüsse von Polizisten ein Demonstrant getötet worden. Dies berichtet die kuweitische Zeitung „Kuwait Times“. Bei dem Zwischenfall wurden zudem fünf Demonstranten verletzt. Die Kundgebung habe sich gegen die Regierung gewendet, so das Blatt. Die Polizei habe auf die Protestierenden geschossen, um den Aufzug zu beenden.
Laut Augenzeugen sollen die Demonstranten Transparente mit regierungskritischen Aufschriften getragen haben. Laut dem Blatt wurde in Dali am Samstag und am Sonntag demonstriert.
Dali liegt 180 Kilometer nördlich der Küstenstadt Aden. In der Region kommt es seit Wochen immer wieder zu Protesten, die sich ursprünglich gegen die Benachteiligung des Südens gegenüber dem Norden wendete. Immer wieder war es zu gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen mit Sicherheitskräften gekommen, wobei acht Demonstranten sowie vier Soldaten getötet wurden. Die Regierung in Sanaa wirft den Protestierenden Separatismus vor und stoppte die Verbreitung von Zeitungen, die über die Opfer unter den Demonstranten berichtet hatten.

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Jemen: Proteste im Süden dauern an

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In der südjemenitischen Provinz Lahj dauern die Proteste der Einwohner weiter an. Dies berichtet die jemenitische Zeitung „Yemen Times“. Eine Großdemo, die gestern stattfinden sollte, forderte die Freilassung von bei bisherigen Aufmärschen Verhafteten.Zu der Demonstration riefen die „Angehörigen des friedlichen Kampfes“ die Bewohner der Distrikte Hawta und Tuban auf.
Unterstützung erhalten die Demonstranten von der Opposition. Hassan Zaid, der Sprecher der Joint Meeting Parties, zu dem sich die Oppositionsparteien zusammengeschlossen haben, forderte ein Ende der staatlichen Gewalt gegen friedliche Demonstranten. Bereits in der vergangenen Woche hatte die Regierung laut dem Blatt der Opposition vorgeworfen, politische Proteste zu fördern.
Derweil stehen in der Hauptstadt Sanaa diejenigen vor Gericht, denen die Regierung vorwirft, die „Separatisten“ im Süden anzustacheln. Unter ihnen ist der ehemalige Botschafter des Jemens in Mauretanien, Qasim Askar Jubran. Dem 55Jährigen, der seit Mai vergangenen Jahres in Haft sitzt, werden auch bewaffneter Widerstand gegen die Staatsgewalt und Verletzung der Einheit des Jemen vorgeworfen. Der ehemalige Diplomat lehnte das Sondergericht für Sicherheit und Terrorismus als nicht verfassungsgemäß ab.
Seit 2006 kommt es in der Provinz im Süden des Landes zu Demonstrationen gegen die Situation im Süden des Landes und die Benachteiligung gegenüber dem Norden. Seit Anfang Mai hatten sich diese immer wieder gewalttätige Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Demonstranten und staatlichen Sicherheitsorganen entwickelt. Am vergangenen Wochenende wurden dabei laut „Yemen Times“ mindestens vier Demonstranten und ein Polizist getötet und 13 Personen verletzt.

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Yémen: quatre morts dans le sud sur fond d'appels à une sécession de la région

06.06.2009

SANAA (AFP) — Quatre personnes, dont un policier, ont été tuées et 13 autres blessées dans une série de troubles samedi soir et dimanche dans le sud du Yémen sur fond d'appels à une sécession de cette région, selon un nouveau bilan de sources médicales et tribales.
"Un civil atteint d'une balle est décédé en salle d'opération", a indiqué un médecin de la ville de Daleh, à 180 km au nord d'Aden, lieu d'une première marche, ajoutant que cinq autres manifestants ont été blessés par balle.
Selon des témoins, un échange de tirs a opposé des manifestants armés et des policiers qui tentaient de disperser la marche pendant laquelle des slogans hostiles au gouvernement ont été lancés.
La police est ensuite venue arrêter un blessé dans l'hôpital de Daleh et a été accueillie par des tirs qui ont blessé un policier et un civil, selon ces témoins.
Dans la région de Lahaj, à 80 km au nord d'Aden, deux marches ont eu lieu. Pendant la première, un policier et un civil ont été tués, selon des sources tribales et un civil a été blessé dans la deuxième.
Samedi soir, la police est intervenue pour disperser une marche dans la localité côtière de Ashshir, dans le sud-est du Yémen. Les heurts entre manifestants demandant la libération de détenus et des policiers usant de leurs armes ont fait un tué et cinq blessés, tous des civils, selon des sources tribales.
Des villes du sud du Yémen, qui était un pays indépendant avant l'unification de 1990, connaissent depuis des semaines une agitation et un mécontentement social, attribués par les autorités de Sanaa à des "éléments séparatistes".
Au total, 16 personnes ont été tuées dans ces violences, dont quatre soldats, depuis le début de l'agitation fin avril.
S'estimant victime de discrimination de la part du pouvoir central, une partie de la population de ce qui fut jusqu'en mai 1990 le Yémen du sud, estimée à quatre millions d'habitants, réclame aujourd'hui l'indépendance.
Fondé en 1967, lors du départ des Britanniques, le Yémen du sud avait fusionné en 1990 avec le nord, dirigé depuis 1978 par le président Ali Abdallah Saleh, qui était devenu chef du nouvel Etat.
Mais la greffe n'avait pas pris et une tentative de scission du sud avait été noyée dans le sang en 1994 par l'armée du nord, appuyée par des combattants islamistes de retour d'Afghanistan.

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Yémen : quatre morts et 13 blessés dans une série de troubles

Quatre personnes ont été tuées et 13 autres blessées dans une série de troubles samedi soir et le 31 mai dans le Sud du Yémen, sur fond d'appels à la sécession de cette région, selon un bilan de sources médicales et tribales. Selon des témoins, un échange de tirs a opposé des manifestants armés à des policiers qui tentaient de disperser la marche pendant laquelle des slogans hostiles au gouvernement ont été scandés. Le président yéménite Ali Abdallah Saleh se trouvait le 31 mai en Arabie saoudite, où il a remercié le roi Abdallah pour "son soutien au Yémen, sa sécurité, sa stabilité et son unité", selon une déclaration publiée par l'agence officielle saoudienne Spa.

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Security Threats to Yemen Create Dilemma for United States

Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 15
June 4, 2009 12:23 PM Age: 2 days
Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Military/Security, South Asia
By: [فقط الأعضاء المسجلين والمفعلين يمكنهم رؤية الوصلات . إضغط هنا للتسجيل]

Many American political analysts think that the problem the new American *****istration faces in Yemen relates mainly to the fate of the 100 Yemeni detainees presently incarcerated in Guantanamo. Their homeland cannot guarantee that these individuals, if repatriated, will not become a renewed terrorist threat to America and others. In reality, Yemen’s inability to deal effectively with this problem is just a small symptom of a much larger problem that faces President Obama and the West: Yemen’s near future will undoubtedly witness a bloody resolution to the problem of the undemocratic nature of the present regime. The regional repercussions of this unavoidable event could be uncontrolled and widespread.

The regime that has held power in Yemen for over 30 years presents itself as democratic, yet Yemeni democracy has produced the same president in every election since July 17, 1978 (al-Hisbah, May 30, 2007). Although the constitution of Yemen sets a limit of two terms for a president, Ali Abdullah Saleh easily amends the constitution and resets the meter to start from zero every time his term reaches its end (Al-Hiwar, February 25). It now appears that Saleh is grooming his son to succeed him when his current term expires in 2013. There is a belief held by some in Yemen that the policies and actions of the president have contributed to the development of an effective armed opposition (Aram, April 28). In consequence, President Saleh faces five major threats to his country’s stability (Sawt-Al-Yaman, December 2008):

• The Secessionist movement in the South: Saleh’s Yemen did not always include the socialist South, which was independent until 1990. After a political unification, the ****** of the South, Ali Salem al-Bied, was subjected to a series of calculated acts on the part of Saleh designed to marginalize him and his constituency, and to basically create a vassal state in the South (Yemen Times, May 26, 2003). This met with resistance, to which Saleh’s reaction was an invasion of the south under the slogan “Unity or Death!” (Aleshteraki.net, March 31, 2008). After many deaths, Saleh won that war and achieved unity through military occupation. In his haste to neutralize the remaining southern forces, he disbanded both the southern army and security forces, sending more than 60,000 men in arms packing and many jobless (Aleshteraki.net, April 6, 2008). This, of course, created a large reserve of anti-Saleh militants who were without positions but not without means. Over the course of the last 18 years, these people have reorganized themselves and now present a major threat to the “unity” of Yemen.

• The Houthi Insurgency in the North: The Zaydi Shiite “Believing Youth” movement of northern Yemen was originally an organization supported as well as exploited by Saleh, who used it as a check against the spread of the Salafist movement in the North. Others, more cynically, suggested it was a means of occupying the energies of his cousin, Ali Muhsin al-Ahmar, the most powerful military man in Yemen (Al-Arabiya, April 7, 2007, Nashwannews, May 11). This organization, however, grew out of its intended role and assumed its own agenda, holding its own in five rounds of serious armed conflict against Saleh (Nashwannews, May 11). A sixth round is not an unlikely event at this point, but it could very well spread from the provincial environment to larger areas, including even the capital of San’a (Alahali, April 7). The insurgency is named after the late Shi’a cleric Hussein al-Houthi, who led the Believing Youth’s first major military campaign against San’a in 2004.

• Al-Qaeda and other militant Jihadist groups: The recent announcement by al-Qaeda’s ****** in Yemen, Nasir al-Wuhayshi that he is throwing his support behind the secessionist movement in the South received little approval in the jihadi *****s (Alboraq, May 2009). Some political analysts believe the statement is an indication that Saleh is “engaging in dangerous games with the terrorists” (Al-Majalis, January 28). Al-Wuhayshi (transferred to Yemen by Iran in 2003) was one of the 23 al-Qaeda prisoners who “escaped” from a well-guarded Yemeni jail in 2006 (al-Jazeera, January 26). Since a public pronouncement of political support like this is not common al-Qaeda practice, it appears to be a transparent and manipulative act designed to mislead someone. The secessionist movement being socialist and secular, there is no apparent reason for al-Qaeda support to suddenly materialize.

Regional observers may conclude that none other than Saleh’s political agents arranged the statement of support, using al-Qaeda operatives who owe him favors to create a political theater that can be presented to the West (al-Jazeera, May 14). The goal, of course, is to have the South aligned with inimical forces so they can be discredited by a gain in defensive allies for Saleh’s regime. But this dangerous game could lead to actual war crimes being committed against Southern secessionist ******s, all in the name of “fighting terror” (Marebpress, May 3).

• Popular grievances and grassroots movements: The U.S. Justice Department recently indicted Latin Node Communications Company, an American contractor accused of bribing one of President Saleh’s sons and members of the Ministry of Telecommunications (Yemen Post, May 20). Latin Node eventually entered a guilty plea. [1]

The news immediately plastered the front pages in Yemen, causing President Saleh to shut down eight independent newspapers, claiming they were guilty of “anti-unity” conduct. The origin of this retribution against the press is as follows: Saleh appointed a whole generation of his family members to high positions in the military and the government, placing them in control of the government’s foreign investments committee (Bilakoyood, April 10; Al-Masdar, April 14). These individuals, including his son, Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, were charged with profiting from corrupt practices that used foreign investments for private gain by running fairly primitive “protection scams” wherein they were bribed to not do damage (Al-Masdar, April 28). While the president’s son was cleared by the U.S. Justice Department, the general public in Yemen is not fooled by these corrupt practices, and as poverty levels and unemployment soar (both at 35% of the population) public resentment soars as well (Yemen Times, December 20, 2007; Yemen Post, April 25; May 7). The state of corruption in Yemen is not lost on the average citizen of Yemen who sees $80,000 Rolls Royce and Porsche automobiles being driven around the capital by clerks and mid-level personnel while he or she is commonly found standing in the bread line (Alhadath Yemen, April 24). The result has been a generalized and ever present anger within the population that could be galvanized in a form of an uprising, should some precipitating event come along.

• Conflicts within the regime: Even within the regime, there are high-ranking members of the military or the ruling General People’s Congress party who prefer their own candidacy for president to that of Saleh’s son, Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, ****** of Yemen’s Republican Guards and the Anti-Terrorism Special Forces. Many of these top officials are family members appointed by Saleh. Over the last decade a series of car accidents, helicopter crashes and illnesses have claimed the lives of many figures in Saleh’s inner circle (Hadramut.net, March 3, 2006; Marebpress, April 30, 2008; Yemen Times, May 24). The frequency of fatal car crashes involving regime members and opposition figures (even in a country where 1,000 road fatalities a month is not uncommon) is a matter of public comment and has led to anxiety at the highest levels of the national ******ship (Marebpress, April 30, 2008).

Conclusion

The policies and actions of the Saleh Regime have, in the course of 31 years, led to a critical situation that can be resolved by the Yemeni people only if Saleh is not supported by outside forces. A factor that does not often find its way into the press in this country—that the ordinary Yemeni citizen is armed—is of enormous importance in assessing the near future of Yemen. Among a population of 22 million, there are between 40 to 50 million weapons (al-Sharq al-Awsat, January 9, 2007). No matter who supports or opposes Saleh, he still lives in the middle of an armed camp. Saleh’s hope is that his son takes over for him, not simply to consolidate power within his family, but also to prevent the opening of countless files about the methods used to ensure his 31 years in control. In the meantime he may find that the many armed camps within Yemen are unwilling to agree to this plan.

Notes:
1. “Latin Node Inc., Pleads Guilty to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violation and Agrees to Pay $2 Million Criminal Fine,” usdoj.gov. April 7, 2009; Department of Justice Press Release, Miami.fbi.gov., April 7, 2009.

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التغطية الأخبارية التي أجريتها و التي تضمنت بحث في الصحف و المواقع الأخبارية الناطقة بالإنجليزية, الفرنسية و الألمانية التي كتبت عن القضية الجنوبية في خلال هذا الأسبوع تعكس حقيقة أن الحديث عن الحصار الإعلامي في الوقت الحالي على الأقل غير دقيق. فهذا العدد الكبير من المقالات التي إبتعدت عن النقل الآلي للخبر كما كان في السابق إلى عرض و تحليل القضية الجنوبية و محاولة سبر أغوارها. هذا العدد الكبير من المواضيع الطويلة التي و جدتها تعكس إزدياد الإهتمام العالمي بما يحصل في الجنوب و محاولة معرفة إلى أين تتجه الأمور و هو نصر كبير يحسب للحراك الجنوبي الذي يحق لنا و بكل فخر أن نصفه بالحراك العنيد الذي لم ييأس من الدق على جدار الحصار الإعلامي حتى سمع صوته العالم.

فليعذرني القارئ من ترجمة هذه المواضيع و ذلك لضيق الوقت و صعوبة الترجمة... و لكني سأضع هنا بعض الملاحظات التي يمكن أن توضح بعض الأشياء عن طبيعة التغطية الإعلامية:


-التغطية في مجملها موضوعية تكشف كذب و زيف نظام صنعاء عن الحرية و الديمقراطية.

- المواضيع في معظمها لا تنسب الحراك للمعارضة و لا يتم فيها ذكر المعارضة اليمنية على الإطلاق كما كان في السابق أو كما لا تزال تفعل بعض الصحف العربية!!.

- كما أوضحت أعلاه... التغطية لم تعد مجرد نقل آلي للأحداث كما كان في السابق من نوعية... قامت مظاهرة في مدينة كذا و أدت إلى سقوط كذا قتيلا... بل أن المقالات تحاول أن تحلل ما يجري في الجنوب و تتعرض بالنقد للوحدة و للحكومة اليمنية كما في مقال قناة دوتشه فيله الألمانية التي تذكر أن الوحدة لم تقم حقيقة.

- يبدوا من خلال قراءة المواضيع أن مصادر المعلومات تأتي في الغالب للصحفيين من شخصيات شمالية... كما في المقال المنشور في الدوتشه فيله حيث الحديث عن رسام عدني إسمه كمال المقرمي و الذي يبدوا لي أنه من تعز. هذا الشخص لم يحد ما يذكره من السلبيات التي جلبتها لنا الوحدة إلا أن "نسائنا أصبحن يرتدين النقاب"!!!

- التغطيات و رغم تميزها بكثير من الموضوعية و تحدثها بإحترام عن الحراك الجنوبي إلا أن وجهة نظر نشطاء الحراك و قادته مغيبة تماما و لم يحدث أن قرأت في أي مقال لقاء أو حتى ذكر إسم لأحد رموز الحراك سواء في الداخل أو الخارج... و بهذا يفتقد القارئ فهم أسباب هذا الحراك الجنوبي و تختلط عليه المطالب الحقوقية بالسياسية.

- مقال الصحفي منير الماوري هو أكثر مقال أثار حنقي لأنه بالرغم من أنه مكتوب بالإنجليزية و منشور في موقع أمريكي و إعتمد فيه الماوري على مصادر متنوعة بذل فيها جهدا يستحق الإشادة عليه إلا أن المقال يبقى مقالا يمنيا بإمتياز. المصادر التي إعتمدها الماوري ليس فيها مصدر جنوبي واحد و كأنه لا يقرأ صحيفة الأيام ولا يتابع أي مواقع جنوبية و حتى عند إشارته لموضوع حظر الصحف الثمانية لا يذكر أسماء الصحف و لا يشير حتى إلى حقيقة أن معظمها جنوبية و لا إلى أن سبب منعها هو نقلها لما يحدث في الجنوب بل يدعي أن السبب هو نشرها لموضوع فضيحة إبن الرئيس اليمنى. أما كتابته عن الحراك الجنوبي فمبهمة و إعتمد فيها على مصادر لا تمثل توجه الحراك الإستقلالي مثل الإشتراكي نت و يمن تايمز.

- هذه التغطية تكشف حقيقة أن على نشطاء و قادة الحراك أن يسعوا للتواصل مع الإعلام الخارجي و ذلك عن طريق تشكيل فريق إعلامي في الخارج مهمته تعريف رجال الصحافة و الإعلام العرب و الأجانب بوجهة نظر أبناء الجنوب من ما يحصل في بلدهم و شرح أهداف الحراك و التركيز على حق تقرير المصير كحق تكفله كل الشرائع و القوانين.

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اقتباس   المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة Ganoob67 One Yemeni paper facing government wrath Al-Ayyam finds itself in hot water in troubled Yemen but the 50-year-old paper is no stranger to pressure. By Christian Chaise - ADEN, Yemen Published 2009-06-05 High calibre bullets have peppered the place -- a wall in the children's room on the first floor, in shattered windows and on the facade of the building. The compound in downtown Aden housing the office of Al-Ayyam, the biggest daily newspaper in southern Yemen, was the scene of a deadly shootout on May 13 between security forces and armed guards. One man was killed and three were wounded in the hour-long battle. Police and soldiers had arrived to arrest Al-Ayyam owner Hisham Basharaheel, 66, in connection with a killing more than a year ago in Sanaa, the capital, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Aden. But Basharaheel and those close to him say the arrest warrant was a direct result of the secessionist unrest that erupted in southern Yemen in late April that has claimed 16 lives. South Yemen, then run by a socialist government allied to the former Soviet Union, was an independent state until unification with the north on May 22, 1990. Al-Ayyam is one of eight publications that were forced by the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to cease publication early last month for allegedly working against Yemeni unity. The violence broke out in Radfan district in Lahaj province north of Aden. Eight people, including four soldiers, were killed between April 27 and May 3 in clashes between protesters and security forces. For several days in a row, pictures of the dead and wounded featured on Al-Ayyam's front page. "When Al-Ayyam stopped publishing we were printing 78,000 copies a day," a huge number for Yemen, "and we were selling 100 percent," said Basharaheel Basharaheel, one of the owner's three sons, who heads the foreign desk. He said average daily circulation was normally around 50,000, although it has not been possible to verify these figures independently. After a spate of incidents early last month, when delivery trucks were stopped by armed civilians or security forces and thousands of copies seized and destroyed, Al-Ayyam decided to suspend publication on May 5 as it could no longer distribute, he says. On May 6, the paper's Internet site was blocked, and the next day the government announced the publishing ban on Al-Ayyam and seven weeklies. For Al-Ayyam the situation was about to get even worse. A prosecutor issued an arrest warrant against Hisham Basharaheel in connection with a shooting on February 12, 2008 in Sanaa between armed men and a security guard at the newspaper's office there. One person was killed and the guard was arrested. Basharaheel stood accused of encouraging the guard to open fire. Basharaheel's son said his father was prepared to appear in an Aden court to answer the charge, but not in Sanaa where he would fear for his life. The authorities and Al-Ayyam offer conflicting versions of what happened next -- the gun battle at the newspaper's Aden compound. Police said Al-Ayyam guards opened fire first, but Basharaheel Basharaheel is adamant to the contrary. "They (the security forces) just opened fire all of a sudden," he said. The security guards "fired back. That's their job." The building is also home to the Basharaheel family. "There were twenty women and children in the compound at the time," the younger Basharaheel said. His wife and two children, aged five years and just six months, were among them. "By a miracle, my wife and two kids had left the room a few seconds before," he said, pointing to bullet holes in the wall just above a child's bed. Hundreds of Al-Ayyam supporters rushed to the scene after the shooting, and they now take turns to keep vigil outside the building which has become a fortress. "Basically, we're trapped," the young Basharaheel said. The security forces may have pulled back, but they are still doing their utmost to keep the family isolated. They tried to prevent an AFP reporter from visiting Al-Ayyam, and also forced an AFP photographer to delete pictures he had taken. It is not the first time Al-Ayyam has found itself in hot water. Established in 1958, the paper was suspended for 23 years between 1967 and 1990, during socialist rule in the south. "They told us 'You should suspend the publication for one week pending licensing procedures'," the younger Basharaheel recalled with a smile. "The licence came 23 years later..." [فقط الأعضاء المسجلين والمفعلين يمكنهم رؤية الوصلات . إضغط هنا للتسجيل]

الترجمة: الإنجليزية » العربية
One Yemeni paper facing government wrath Al-Ayyam finds itself in hot water in troubled Yemen but the 50-year-old paper is no stranger to pressure. By Christian Chaise - ADEN, Yemen Published 2009-06-05 High calibre bullets have peppered the place -- a wall in the children's room on the first floor, in shattered windows and on the facade of the building. The compound in downtown Aden housing the office of Al-Ayyam, the biggest daily newspaper in southern Yemen, was the scene of a deadly shootout on May 13 between security forces and armed guards. One man was killed and three were wounded in the hour-long battle. Police and soldiers had arrived to arrest Al-Ayyam owner Hisham Basharaheel, 66, in connection with a killing more than a year ago in Sanaa, the capital, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Aden. But Basharaheel and those close to him say the arrest warrant was a direct result of the secessionist unrest that erupted in southern Yemen in late April that has claimed 16 lives. South Yemen, then run by a socialist government allied to the former Soviet Union, was an independent state until unification with the north on May 22, 1990. Al-Ayyam is one of eight publications that were forced by the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to cease publication early last month for allegedly working against Yemeni unity. The violence broke out in Radfan district in Lahaj province north of Aden. Eight people, including four soldiers, were killed between April 27 and May 3 in clashes between protesters and security forces. For several days in a row, pictures of the dead and wounded featured on Al-Ayyam's front page. "When Al-Ayyam stopped publishing we were printing 78,000 copies a day," a huge number for Yemen, "and we were selling 100 percent," said Basharaheel Basharaheel, one of the owner's three sons, who heads the foreign desk. He said average daily circulation was normally around 50,000, although it has not been possible to verify these figures independently. After a spate of incidents early last month, when delivery trucks were stopped by armed civilians or security forces and thousands of copies seized and destroyed, Al-Ayyam decided to suspend publication on May 5 as it could no longer distribute, he says. On May 6, the paper's Internet site was blocked, and the next day the government announced the publishing ban on Al-Ayyam and seven weeklies. For Al-Ayyam the situation was about to get even worse. A prosecutor issued an arrest warrant against Hisham Basharaheel in connection with a shooting on February 12, 2008 in Sanaa between armed men and a security guard at the newspaper's office there. One person was killed and the guard was arrested. Basharaheel stood accused of encouraging the guard to open fire. Basharaheel's son said his father was prepared to appear in an Aden court to answer the charge, but not in Sanaa where he would fear for his life. The authorities and Al-Ayyam offer conflicting versions of what happened next -- the gun battle at the newspaper's Aden compound. Police said Al-Ayyam guards opened fire first, but Basharaheel Basharaheel is adamant to the contrary. "They (the security forces) just opened fire all of a sudden," he said. The security guards "fired back. That's their job." The building is also home to the Basharaheel family. "There were twenty women and children in the compound at the time," the younger Basharaheel said. His wife and two children, aged five years and just six months, were among them. "By a miracle, my wife and two kids had left the room a few seconds before," he said, pointing to bullet holes in the wall just above a child's bed. Hundreds of Al-Ayyam supporters rushed to the scene after the shooting, and they now take turns to keep vigil outside the building which has become a fortress. "Basically, we're trapped," the young Basharaheel said. The security forces may have pulled back, but they are still doing their utmost to keep the family isolated. They tried to prevent an AFP reporter from visiting Al-Ayyam, and also forced an AFP photographer to delete pictures he had taken. It is not the first time Al-Ayyam has found itself in hot water. Established in 1958, the paper was suspended for 23 years between 1967 and 1990, during socialist rule in the south. "They told us 'You should suspend the publication for one week pending licensing procedures'," the younger Basharaheel recalled with a smile. "The licence came 23 years later..." [فقط الأعضاء المسجلين والمفعلين يمكنهم رؤية الوصلات . إضغط هنا للتسجيل]
ورقة واحدة تواجه الحكومة اليمنية غضب

صحيفة الايام على صفيح ساخن المضطربة في اليمن ولكن من العمر 50 عاما ورقة ليست غريبة عن الضغوط.

بقلم كريستيان شيز -- عدن (اليمن
نشر 2009-06-05

مقدرة عالية من الرصاص قد اضفى على المكان -- جدار الطفل في غرفة في الطابق الأول ، وأدى الى تحطم النوافذ وعلى واجهة المبنى.
مجمع السكن في وسط مدينة عدن مكتب قناة الأيام ، أكبر صحيفة يومية في جنوب اليمن ، وكانت مسرحا لقاتلة خلال تبادل لاطلاق النار في 13 ايار / مايو بين قوات الأمن وحرس مسلحين.
وقتل رجل وأصيب ثلاثة آخرون في المعركة التي استمرت ساعة.
رجال الشرطة والجنود وصلوا الى لإلقاء القبض على صاحب صحيفة الايام Basharaheel هشام (66 عاما) فيما يتعلق قتل قبل أكثر من عام في صنعاء ، العاصمة ، على بعد 400 كيلومترا (250 ميلا) إلى الشمال من عدن.
Basharaheel ولكن القريبين منه يقولون مذكرة التوقيف هو نتيجة مباشرة للقلاقل الانفصالية التي اندلعت في جنوب اليمن في أواخر نيسان / أبريل الذي اودى بحياة 16 شخصا.
جنوب اليمن ، التي تديرها حكومة اشتراكية متحالفة مع الاتحاد السوفياتي السابق ، وكانت دولة مستقلة حتى الوحدة مع الشمال يوم 22 مايو 1990.
صحيفة الايام واحد من ثمانية من المنشورات التي أجبرت حكومة الرئيس اليمني علي عبد الله صالح لوقف نشر في مطلع الشهر الماضي لاتهامه بالعمل ضد الوحدة اليمنية.
واندلعت أعمال العنف في منطقة Radfan في محافظة لحج شمال عدن. ثمانية اشخاص بينهم اربعة جنود قتلوا في الفترة بين 27 ابريل و 3 مايو في اشتباكات بين المتظاهرين وقوات الامن.
لعدة ايام متتالية ، وصور القتلى والجرحى ظهر صحيفة الايام في صدر صفحاتها.
وقال "عندما توقفت صحيفة الايام كنا النشر والطباعة 78،000 نسخة يوميا" عدد هائل من أجل اليمن ، "وكنا بيع 100 في المئة" Basharaheel Basharaheel ، وهو واحد من ثلاثة اولاد المالك ، الذي يرأس مكتب الخارجية.
وقال ان المتوسط اليومي لتداول عادة حوالي 50،000 ، على الرغم من أنه لم يكن من الممكن التحقق من هذه الارقام بشكل مستقل.
بعد سلسلة من الحوادث في مطلع الشهر الماضي ، عندما توقفت الشاحنات تسليم المسلحين المدنيين أو قوات الأمن وآلاف من النسخ تم الاستيلاء عليها وتدميرها ، الأيام قرر تعليق نشر في 5 ايار / مايو حيث لم يعد في امكانها توزيعها ، ويقول :
يوم 6 مايو ، طبقا للصحيفة على الانترنت منع ، واليوم التالي اعلنت الحكومة فرض حظر على نشر صحيفة الايام السبعة والأسبوعية.
لصحيفة الايام ان الوضع على وشك أن يزداد سوءا.
وقال المدعي العام أصدر مذكرة توقيف بحق هشام Basharaheel فيما يتعلق باطلاق النار على 12 فبراير 2008 في صنعاء بين مسلحين وحارس أمن في مكتب الصحيفة هناك.
قتل شخص واحد واعتقل حرس. وقفت Basharaheel اتهم تشجيع الحرس الى اطلاق النار.
ابن Basharaheel ان والده مستعد للمثول في عدن امام المحكمة للرد على هذا الاتهام ، ولكن ليس في صنعاء حيث كان يخشى على حياته.
السلطات و آل الايام عرض روايات متضاربة ما حدث بعد ذلك -- في معركة الصحيفة مجمع عدن.
وقالت الشرطة ان صحيفة الايام الحراس فتحوا النار أولا ، ولكن Basharaheel Basharaheel تصر على العكس.
وقال "إنهم (قوات الأمن) وعادل للجميع فتحت النار فجأة". حراس الامن "باطلاق النار هذا وظائفهم".
المبنى ايضا الى Basharaheel الأسرة.
"كانت هناك والعشرين من النساء والأطفال في المجمع في ذلك الوقت ،" الاصغر Basharaheel. زوجته وطفليه ، والذين تتراوح أعمارهم بين خمس سنوات وستة اشهر فقط ، كان من بينها.
"معجزة ، زوجتي وطفلين قد غادر القاعة قبل بضع ثوان" ، مشيرا إلى ثقوب رصاص في الجدار فوق سرير الطفل.
المئات من انصار صحيفة الايام هرع الى مكان الحادث بعد إطلاق النار ، وتحول الآن الى اليقظة امام المبنى الذي أصبح القلعة.
وقال "نحن محاصرون" Basharaheel الشباب.
قوات الامن قد انسحبت ، لكنها لا تزال تبذل كل ما في وسعها للحفاظ على الأسرة المعزولة.
حاولوا منع مراسل وكالة فرانس برس عن زيارة صحيفة الايام ، واضطر ايضا مصور وكالة فرانس برس على حذف الصور التي اتخذها.
انها ليست المرة الاولى صحيفة الايام وجدت نفسها في ورطة كبيرة. أنشئت في عام 1958 ، ورقة علقت لمدة 23 عاما بين 1967 و 1990 ، وخلال الحكم الاشتراكي في الجنوب. "قالوا لنا' يجب تعليق نشر لمدة أسبوع واحد في انتظار إجراءات الترخيص ، "الاصغر Basharaheel أشارت وهو يبتسم. "وجاءت الرخصة بعد 23 عاما..."

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