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The
Yemeni American Anti-terrorism Center (YAATC)
The Yemeni American
Anti-terrorism Centre has despatched a letter to the Secretary General
of United Nation calling for pressure on the Yemeni regime to stop
oppressing Yemeni people and to discontinue off caring for the
international terror. Tajaden has received a copy of that letter here is
the full text:
Date: 04/27/2007 From: The
Yemeni American Anti-terrorism Center (YAATC) To: The United Nations
Subject: perspective of
the (YAATC) on the international war on terror and how to dry its
sources in Yemen.
Dear Honourable Mr. Ban
Ki-Moon General Secretary of the United Nations.
Greetings, We would like
to thank the United Nations in the person of its former General
Secretary Mr. Kofi Annan for all the relief efforts and assistance that
he and his teams gave to the people of the world. This is especially
true in the ease of the Republic of Yemen, where we have found real and
serious action by the United Nations and other human service
organizations, specifically on the problems of human trade and the
problem of kidnapping and selling of Yemeni children to neighbouring
countries. We thank the United Nations for all the work being done to
return these children safely to their parents, provide them with
shelter, and to rehabilitate the psychologically, socially,
educationally and health wise so that they become productive citizens.
All thanks are due to the good people of the world who spend from their
wealth and efforts toward achieving these noble goals.
Thanks are due to you Mr.
General Secretary for all the concrete efforts that you done to serve
humanity through the great role of United Nations by resolving conflicts
through peaceful means; efforts to end wars, violence, terrorism and
through helping the poor, children, refugees and the victims of
dictatorial regimes.
Your Excellency, Mr.
General Secretary…. We would like to present to you the perspective of
the Yemeni American Anti-terrorism Center (YAATC) on terrorism for the
following reasons:
First, we believe that
these views are going to help all of us to get rid of terrorism or at
the very least limit a major portion of it in Yemen for the coming
years.
Second, we in the YAATC do
accuse the current regime in Yemen of producing terrorism and exporting
it to the world. We believe that dictatorship on one side and terrorism
on the other are two faces of the same coin, they live together and die
together.
Third, We in the YAATC, do
believe that our views will help limit the wars that are based on the
ideologies of hate, hostility, the physical elimination of the other,
and the use of sacred religions to justify the killing of political
opponents and civilians in general.
Fourth, the YAATC have had
previously sent a letter to the United Nations on July 07, 2006 titled:
The Seventh of July 1994: The day of victory for the powers extremism
and terror against the forces of good and modernity in Yemen ". That
letter pointed out events, facts and suggestions to the International
body.
Fifth, the YAATC believes
that it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Dear honourable
secretary…. We believe that terrorism finds in wars, bloodletting and
the deliberate maintenance of poverty and ignorance its safe refuge. The
Yemeni people have suffered from chronic wars, poverty, ignorance, and
disease for more than fifty years and its suffering has increased in the
past 30 years.
The YAATC views the
dictatorial regime in Yemen as the main cause of the increase of wars,
poverty, fear, ignorance, and disease in Yemen due to the mentality of
the regime. The regime views itself as having a divine right to rule the
land as representative of God; people count for little unless they show
support to the regime. The regime sees that it is permissible to do
anything to stay in power regardless of the possible results such as
wars, plundering of public wealth, the formation of mafia groups and
gangs that kills political opponents and kidnap children, smuggle
weapons and launder money to outside the country, exporting problems to
the neighbours for the purpose of extortion, running of prostitution
rings (the crimes that are not in the public view are much worse). The
regime tops all of that by violations of human rights. All of these
crimes and practices lead at the end to production of terrorism and its
export to the outside world. As a result the world becomes less safe
including our country, the United States of America (May God protect it
from any harm).
Dear honourable Sir,
The best summary of the
YAATC views on the war against terror is that knowing the disease will
lead to the finding the cure.
Any objective analysis of
the situation in Yemen and the events that Yemen went through will lead
to one conclusion; that the ruling regime in Yemen is a dictatorial,
racist, sectarian and oppressive regime. This regime wrestled power from
the people by use of army and lead Yemen from one war to the next under
flimsy excuses that has nothing to do with realities of people's lives
and their conditions. This regime has established an empire of
corruption for the corrupt in the country. As a consequence, this
directly has led to the poverty, humiliation, ignorance and disease
among ordinary people. Inevitably, this has led to the creation of one
of focal points of terrorism. Silence for a long time in the face of
such swamps of terror has led to numerous terrorist incidents; chief
among them was the attack on the USS Cole in the port of Aden and
culminating in the events of 9/11.
We believe that the world
has to assume the responsibility of finding the cure for the disease of
terrorism. The YAATC believes that pursuing the following will be part
of the cure for terrorism:
1. Doing whatever it takes
to compel the regime in Yemen to respect its citizens and achieve equity
among them and integrating blacks and others who suffer from class
differences in the Yemeni society. This way all citizens of Yemen will
become equal in their rights and responsibilities regardless of colour,
race, sex, language, religious or political belief.
2. Doing whatever it takes
to compel the regime in Yemen to distribute the national wealth among
Yemenis in an equitable manner; and away from benefiting and enriching
its own supporters and pillars.
3. Doing whatever it takes
to compel the regime in Yemen to let freedom and democracy flourish and
to stop arresting journalists and closing newspapers. The regime should
let civil society organizations become more active and exercise their
full power to defend human rights.
4. Doing whatever it takes
to compel the regime in Yemen to arrest all terrorists including
Abdulmajid Alzindani and extradite them to the US to be questioned in
matters related to terrorism. Also the Eman University, which we
consider as a factory for producing terrorists, should be closed. The
fact that this University is attached to the camp of the First Armoured
Division, under the command of Brig. General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar [The
President's brother] raises more than one question.
5. Doing whatever it takes
to freeze the assets of Yemeni officials in Yemen and abroad since these
assets were acquired illegally. These assets should be returned to the
people of Yemen through the United Nations in well laid-out and
transparent procedures. The regime also should be compelled to take
corrupt officials to trial and in public.
6. Doing whatever it takes
to compel the regime in Yemen to stop mixing religion with politics by
encouraging Sheiks of religion to issue fatwas that legitimize the
killing of political opponents. This is what happened in the last thirty
years whether it is on the war of the mid-regions, the war of 1994, the
occupation of the South or the current war in Sa’ada.
7. Doing whatever it takes
to compel the regime in Yemen to eliminate armed militias that are armed
by the regime, which is known as the Army of Osaimat. These militias,
when called by the regime, conduct killings, looting, rape and
enslavement of women. These activities are done to assist the regime in
its wars and in support of the official Army. The regime follows this
method to instil terror and fear in the hearts of the people to insure
loyalty and impose what the regime calls as legitimacy. What kind of
legitimacy does this regime has that is based on killings, terror,
pillage, looting and rape.
8. Doing whatever it takes
to compel the regime in Yemen to put the national wealth in the service
of better education, health, human services and development.
9. Doing whatever it takes
to compel the regime in Yemen to respect the independence of the
judiciary as an independent power. The regime should not interfere in
the business of courts and obstruct justice.
10. Doing whatever it
takes to compel the regime in Yemen to reveal the names of Yemeni
officials who are involved in the human trade scandal and arrange for
their public trials.
11. Doing whatever it
takes to compel the regime in Yemen to reveal the true terrorists behind
the attack on the USS Cole and those behind the killing of the three
American doctors in the city of Jibla as well as other terrorist
operations in Yemen .
12. Doing whatever it
takes to compel the regime in Yemen to control its borders and to stop
facilitating the travel of Mujahedeen from and to Yemen which amounts to
a policy of production and export of terrorism abroad.
Dear honourable Sir,
We hope that we have been
successful in laying the truth with objectivity in front of you so that
this may help you see a clearer picture of the war on terror drying its
swamps in Yemen. This in turn will help the people's of Yemen and the
world move on toward a prosperous and terror-free future.
Thanks.
President of the Centre
Ahmed Banama Email com.yahoo@3yaatc 1404-957(313) Ph Executive Director
Mused Ali
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