| Submit your comments on this article |
| Arabia |
| South Yemen Forms Liberation Council |
| 2008-11-21 |
| Southern Yemenis just elected their own representative body, the Southern Arabian Liberation Council (SALC), which has called for an electoral boycott claiming the central government, not just the election, is illegitimate in the south. Note, article is from a leftist publication. Yemen’s government deploys the institutions, processes and rhetoric of democracy to legitimize its rule and gain western support. In reality, the consolidation of democracy has made little progress since 1994 when Saleh’s forces re-imposed a unified state on southern Yemen by force. At the center of the national dynamic is greed. Saleh’s regime loots the state treasury at every step of administration. Brutal security forces, secret police, corrupt courts and systematic torture are the systems in place for those who do not succumb to bribery, blackmail and threats. While the forms of democracy have spread, the practice has not. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #1 Who knows what the real story is with Yemen. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-21 17:50 |