SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Residents of Yemen’s second largest city say after 10 days constant protests, security forces have disappeared from the streets, threatening to plunge Aden into chaos.
Residents of thbe port city say groups of men are attacking, looting and burning government buildings and there is no sign of police or armed forces.
In the capital Sanaa, hundreds of Yemenis began demonstrating early in the morning Saturday outside the university demanding the ouster of the country’s longtime ruler as they marched towards the Justice Ministry.
“The people want the ouster of the regime,” they chanted.
Over the past nine days of protests, six people have been killed and more than 150 wounded as police fire tear gas and gunshots.
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When they say that the police forces and the army have disappeared from the streets like Aden and the likes, it means that both of these groups have gone back to their barracks and changed uniforms in order to come back with casual street cloths in order to practice violence and chaos simply to demonstrate to domestic and the international communities as to the absolute necessity and indispensability of the highly authoritarian dictatorial police state being under siege.
“I am tired and bored and would like to resign but I am afraid that my resignation will let the whole country descend in to the bottomless violence and chaos of great magnitude” Contended the x-president of Egypt Hosini Mubarak while his entire security and police force converted themselves in to street gangs and were rampaging around and causing the violence and chaos being acted out to prove the dictator,s contention just before his forced resignation.
People are not idiots since they quickly formed neighborhood vigilantes and guards who chased away any trouble maker in and around their own areas and kept peace, security and order even in the absence of the government’s corrupt security establishment.
Hence, why can’t the people of Aden do like the Tunisians and Egyptians, by establishing neighborhood temporary people’s security guards and keep their neighborhood’s security, peace and order in perfect condition?
This is another sad story that can be told again and again about one of a very unfortunate places that used to be a colonial territory. Aden did have many of the attributes to become a commercial and financial hub well before now. I still have an indelible memory about that city from the every early 60’s where I received my first modern western education. What a vibrant city it was destined to become everything what Singapore is now or for that matter, Hong Kong is nowadays. Its cursed children took her on the wrong path of this ans that of leftist hooliganism that sent the entire city asunder. Those stinking communist and leftist thugs thought they could take their society to the promised land of both political and economic system where everyone would be ‘ever-so-equal’. They blindly believed that Aden and the surrounding territory is industrialized that there was an abject system where labor was being brutally exploited. Freedom!!! they shouted. Freedom to the working class!!! They flapped their wide open mouths with. Then they sold their beautiful city and entire territory to the Kremlin. What a beautiful city it was in the early 60’s and bustling city of commerce. One of my ever-lasting memory was when one of the ships of the then Ethiopian navy stopped by the port and seeing ever-so-elegant Ethiopian naval officers walking in some of the streets. Was I proud to see them!!! Now both Aden and the navy that gave goose bumps are gone and gone for good. That includes the small town I was born and grew up back home in Ethiopia. It was a small well-diverse town and it is also gone for good now since 1991 because of the subtle ethnic cleansing that has been carried out since then. Families of those I spent of my early childhood years with playing marbles, swimming in some of the local seasonal ponds, surfing trains have been driven out of town because they don’t belong to the nationality of the region. Their lives were made miserable and they had to live. See…I have nothing left to go back to. There will be no ‘The Trip to Bountiful’ for me. Now Aden and its people have to deal with more repression and living under barbaric groups such as Al-Qaeda. What a sad ending.