Emergency Declared in Yemen

[jansky]

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/me...sts/index.html

(CNN) -- At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 hurt Friday in clashes between tens of thousands of anti-government protesters and security forces outside Sanaa University in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, medical officials on the scene said.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced that a state of emergency had been declared, according to one source at the presidential palace and another at the Interior Ministry.
An Interior Ministry official said casualties from the violence were suffered from both sides. The official would not be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
Witnesses said the clashes began after government supporters and anti-government demonstrators threw rocks at each other. Security forces shot into the air and then into the crowd; they also fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowd, witnesses said.



Yemen's youth and social media
"The attacks on protesters are unacceptable and the end of the regime is near," declared Hamid al-Ahmar, a member of parliament and leader of Yemen's opposition Islah Party. "Saleh has brought upon himself a life of disgrace after the killing of innocent protesters."
Yemen has been wracked by weeks of unrest, with thousands protesting Saleh's government.
High unemployment has fueled much of the anger among a growing young population steeped in poverty. The protesters also cite government corruption and a lack of political freedom.
The president has said he will not run for another term in the next round of elections. He also has pledged to bring a new constitution to a vote by the end of the year and transfer government power to an elected parliamentary system.




another problem para sa DFA in case lumala

[chua_riwap]

Yemen naman........

Ano na ba nangyayari sa M.East?

[hondaboot]

one of the four horsemen na yan ...

social media awakens the people of Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen about their plight under so many years of dictatorship

the problem is Egypt is allied with Saudis and Saudis allied with Bahrain, and we all know naman, if it's Saudi it's pro-American

when Obama allowed Mubarak to leave, that started it all. that was the precedent that made most neighboring countries to do an Egypt.

but the problem is Bahrain is pro-American. if America backs the rebels in the small kingdomcountry as in the case of Egypt and Libya, then goodbye Bahrain goodbye Saudi Arabia and therefore, goodbye key ally against Iran

mayayari na talaga ang US dito unless they become accused of double standard. they support democratic reforms and yet they wouldn't do anything with Saudi Arabia / Bahrain which are also dictatorial regimes

tsk tsk tsk ...

dito naman sa atin, a US - Japan rift could be in the making when the US announced that their citizens should flee Japan, thereby implying that they don't back Japan's downplaying of the Japanese nuclear crisis.

hay, if the US losses it's key allies, the dominos will fall. a prolonged Japan-US rift would empower Nokor coz Sokor will not be protected by its big brother Japan.

i think World War III is in the making folks ... the vacuum of power has been set. yan ang mahirap talaga pag hindi ganyan ka-powerful ang nasa posisyon as is now Obama

[hondaboot]

if i'm Obama, i'll let the middle east be. Facebook and Twitter have reached the young Arabs. let them play for awhile, if the respective govt. kill their respective youths, then that's their prerogative.

either way, that will only deepen the desire to remove the dinosaur dictators of middle east in their own way. and all the West had to do was to invent google, facebook and twitter. they don't even have to spend war logistics pa, just guard the gulf area of spill overs to other continents and the world will be safe. safe from WWWIII. sometimes doing nothing is the best recourse

democracy is on it's way in the middle east, that is something that we should all look forward to. though at an early / infant stage, let's all just go with the flow. the price of freemdom /democracy is always riddled with dead young idealists.