Tell Obama and Tell the GCC: If They Think Saleh Should Be Immue Then They Can Have Him

By Hassan Al-Haifi
30 My 2011

"Saleh must be put on the Top Terrorist List of the World". That is how one keen observer saw it after learning of the holocaust that Ali Saleh perpetrated in the proud and patriotic City of Ta'ez. As of last count there were 20 fatalities at the hands of Saleh's murdering thugs as they literally burned the entire encampment of the protesting citizens of Ta'ez, as well as hundred of wounded, 37 of whom are in critical conditions, according to the correspondent of Al-Masdar Online. The epitome of Saleh's streak of vengeance against the City of Ta'ez, which has produced at least one hundred martyrs since the peaceful protests against Saleh began in Mid February of this year, was perpetrated by armored vehicles, tanks, artillery and every type of ordnance that burns kills, wounds and destroys. Every weapon, fixed or mobile available to Saleh's Republican Guards was used to burn the Freedom Square protester's camp out of existence.
Saleh is certainly showing that he does not want to leave in peace. It is unbelievable that the GCC, led by Saudi Arabia and the United States should think that a man like Saleh should not be made accountable for the crimes he perpetrated against his people. The scorched Earth policy has been come the rule of thumbs in the way Saleh maintains his stranglehold on his people. Keeping the electricity off, will not dampen the anger of Yemenis at the horrendous crimes this barbaric dictator has inflicted on his people. Saleh and his criminal backers in the regime believe that the less the people know the better and faster they can carry out their ugly work in Ta'ez and elsewhere. They are bombing villages by the tens and destroying life and limb everywhere in the country. Yet still the resolve of the Yemeni people to end this cruel dictatorship of this unforgivable autocrat, who has given Yemen misery after misery, almost from the very first day of his rule. Now he is supposedly bombing Zangibar to counter the very same, so called "Qaeda" elements he himself sent to try to convince the world that he is an anti terrorist leader. He is in fact the manifestation of terror and sly and sleazy tactics of repression he pulls out from his sleeve. He created Al-Qaeda in Yemen and has always used it as a tool of repression. Do not worry about the soldiers that die in the escapades of his fictional "war on terror" that is part of the adage by which all dictators go by, "the ends justify the means".