200 held in Yemen 'to placate US' (A breach of the country's own laws)

[papau]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/yemen/Story/0,2763,1048570,00.html

200 held in Yemen 'to placate US'

Brian Whitaker Wednesday September 24, 2003 The Guardian

The US-led "war on terror" has caused a worsening of human rights in Yemen, with the authorities there holding almost 200 people without trial in an effort to placate the Americans, says a report published today.In the months following the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, Yemen embarked upon mass arrests, detentions, and the secret deportation of foreign nationals, Amnesty International reports. <snip>

...Kate Allen, Amnesty's UK director, said: "The Yemeni authorities have tried to defend the indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial of nearly 200 people as unavoidable in its efforts to stave off US pressure. "The US's role in Yemen has been deeply questionable, with the FBI allegedly involved in mass arrests, the CIA conducting illegal killings with a 'drone' last year, and US authorities blocking trials of suspects in the sinking of the USS Cole three years ago." The detentions in Yemen mirror those in Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, ....Yemeni authorities acknowledge that some of the measures breach the country's own laws but say they are obliged to "fight terrorism" to avert the risk of US military action.

[rocktivity]

1. Does Yemen have oil?

And are them memberbs of the Coalition of the Billing?


rocknation

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. Yemen

All Yemen has is chaos. The central government doesn't even control all of the nation.

[AndyTiedye]

3. The Actions of "Our" Government Destabilize The Whole Middle East

Which is what PNAC wants, of course, to prepare the way for the US and Israel to take it all over.

[Muddleoftheroad]

4. Yemen again

They don't need PNAC of the U.S. or the old Soviet Union or anyone to destabilize them. They do it fine on their own.