Yemen: Warplanes not Books, Bombs not Food
A military Meg 29 Russian plain crashed in Amran, when its rear engine caught on fire, a military source in the ministry of defense said. The pilot jumped with his parachute after he discovered the fire.Yemen has said lately that it had bought 14 Meg 29 planes from Russia, to be received in batches this year.
Better to bomb your own civilians with. Civilians who are starving I might add. And no one can help them under penalty of law.
Saada: The Yemeni authorities last month closed 21 charitable and private societies in Sa’ada on charge of exploiting their activities in supporting al-Houthi’s insurgency.The Yemeni authorities accused people running these societies, some of whom were arrested, of exploiting activities of their societies to spread political and sectarian thoughts against the law. (yes the mind readers in Yemen arrested them for their thoughts.)
According to the government, these people practice illegal activities and collect money for supporting al-Houthi’s rebellion in the guise of charitable works.
The Sa’ada security forces stormed all the head-offices of these societies, shut them down, invalidated their permissions and froze their assets and financial accounts.
Actually, the people in Saada (Zaidi Shiites) are being subject to ethnic cleansing. The men in whole villages are rounded up for arrest- and they take the little boys too- leaving their families destitute and without financial support. Now other Yemenis are unable to take up collections for food for them. Bombed, arrested, starved, villified in the official media- this is the fate of the Zaidis and many Yemenis, including Sunnis, are very disturbed. But if anyone speaks out (see Lugman, al-Khaiwani, and Yahya Al-Dailami who got the death penalty) they are arrested. This is the whole reason behind the unrelenting targeting of the Popular Forces Union Party: its a party with Zaidi leadership.
A statement by a coalition of opposition parties:
The Joint Meeting Parties reconfirms its position which it has declared before, and drawing attention to the fact that violence is not the correct means to deal with internal issues, which has been proven by the events and developments in Sa’ada.The joint meeting refuses these accusations which say that there will be a rebellion on the republican system.
Its not a rebellion. Its a prolonged attack on civilians, most of whom were armed.
(Everyone in Yemen is armed because there is no law, so you have to protect yourself from the criminals. The police are a private army for the elites and useless to the regular citizens, so every one has an AK. There’s about 20 million weapons in Yemen in the hands of the public.)
