Al-Sahwa [Archives:2006/948/Press Review]

18 may 2006.
Main headlines

– Islah Party congratulates the Yemeni people on the Yemeni unity

– Accusations to the parliament presidency body of violating the law and forgery of voting

– Parliamentary report discloses stop in monitoring bird flu disease

– Al-Siyanni and Salah contain crisis of Infantry Brigade 117 camp crisis

– Educational unions threaten to return to peaceful protests, accuse the government of procrastination

Writer Zaid Al-Shami says in an article the unity is a blessing and grace and disunity is an evil. Although the Yemenis have lived under different and contradicting regimes, the people remained united feeling the affiliation to one homeland and common history. All artificial barriers had failed to weaken the Yemenis determination to unification and communication and the unity remained a goal for the Yemeni revolutions but the historic opportunity came on 22 May 1990 when the Yemeni republic was declared and all chapters of disunity had been folded.

While we are celebrating the national day of the Yemeni republic we should not stop at the boundaries of what had been achieved, which is no doubt great, the more important is how to preserve this accomplishment and every citizen has to feel that he is partner in making the unity and owns a genuine interest in its continuation.

The grievances under which the citizen is groaning are great dangers threatening this accomplishment but we all know that the unity is not the cause but they came from the domination of selfishness and deterioration of values dwelling in sick minds that need to be treated. The injustice is a northern or a southern but rather narcissism practiced by some without estimating its consequences.
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