A person is a reflection of their culture, of what they believe and how they live their lives. A bridge between the past and the future, between time and space and needs to try to keep them in harmony, less they become unbalanced. Not to be aware of the past and give it due consideration in the building of the future can distort the future. Neither is it wise to sacrifice your future because you choose to live in or as if you are in the past. One World One Human Race One Destiny (OWOHROD)
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
JUST A THOUGHT - THE KILLING OF FORMER YEMENI PRESIDENT ALI ABDULLAH SALEH; A TRAGIC SACRIFICE TO PEACE IN YEMEN? PART 1.
'The living of humans are of limited duration, and knowing or not knowing when it is to be ended can be both a curse and a blessing. Those of us who bring about justice and peace to the world, are more likely to leave it in credit, than those who bring death and destruction.'
I am still in shock, from having turned on my TV and saw the tragic and shocking news, on Aljeezera. Announcing the killing of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, former ally of the Houthis fighting the Saudi coalition forces in Yemen.
It was only the day before that I saw the former President on TV, berating and condemning the Houthis, with whom he had been fighting for the past nearly 3 years.
I was surprised that he should have been condemning the Houthis so resolutely. And seemed to be blaming them for things which he should have been aware of, even if he had not been actively a party to them.
And now, here he was, conditionally offering the hand of peace and cooperation to the Saudi coalition.
Which has been so busy destroying Saleh's country, killing and maiming tens of thousands of its people, starving millions and displacing many millions more.
So, what might it have been, that caused the former President, schemer and, it is argued, machiavellian manipulator.
To turn against his own country people, and try to embrace the Saudi aggressors?
What might it have been that caused former President Saleh to think that the enemy of his people, of the Yemenis, the destroyer of Yemenis, would be preferable to his own people, including the Houthis?
Had he been bought by the Saudis, or the Americans, or the British? Had they promised him something or threatened him?
Had they made him an offer he felt he could not refused? One which has brought about his untimely death?
To be continued.
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