Wow Nadia
My very harsh article (Yemen 15) was also published in Yemen in English by the Yemen Times. Wow. She is her brother’s sister, her father’s daughter. I can’t beleive Nadia ran this article. Its very tough. It takes a lot of courage to do that when the Yemeni goverment is so good at targeting anyone who speaks out (arresting people, kidnapping them, kidnapping their little brothers, bombing buildings, defaming them, ect.) Im telling you, the Yemeni journalists are amazing people. Id be honored to stand in their shadow.
Also Nadia is the first female editor in chief in the Middle East. I am not surprised that it is the Yemen Times that made this break through. I was reading the Human Development report and Yemen has the most inequality between men and women. (The govt steals the money and spends it on weapons and terrorists instead of schools.) So Nadia is a real role model. (hmmm so I guess the next article I should tell the US editors about the couragous Nadia too. See post immediately below. But Im sure my friends at the Conservative Woman’s Cotillion with their 30 large websites would all howl with me if the Yemeni govt bothered Miss Nadia. Thirty howling female bloggers, half a million readers, that scares even me. )
Nadia’s editorial today:
History reveals that any acts of violence, especially from the state against citizens who were seen as normal people in the recent past, have lead to greater violence and dismay among the public….Not everything is politically oriented or at least as seen by the normal people. Unless the state gives a valid explanation as to why such schools that the people have been going to and depending on as means for educating their children, are being termed as harbors for terrorism and consequently closed down, they would see this as an attack against the local communities and their inherited right to believe.
What’s worse is that the Yemeni security forces are very tactless and lack professionalism. In the West, cops are always associated with doughnuts and idiotic dialogues, in the east- such as in Yemen, police are associated with corruption, bullying, idiocy and violence. A recent incident was reported last week in Wisab al-Aali near Ibb governorate when a man accused of murdering his wife and son. Since they could not catch the murderer, the security forces arrested his bull instead. I don’t know if bull is being interrogated as we speak now, but I sure feel sorry for the poor animal.
What happens if people lose confidence in their protectors? A well known proverb says “hamiha haramiha” indicating that the one who protects is the one who robs. Being in the security force means more than just bullying people and attacking those who are not wearing the uniform.
nice
