RakyatYaman mahu Tun M jadi Presiden Yaman

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Sana'a: Itu adalah hari pertama Muhammad Ahmad untuk Tahrir Square untuk bergabung dengan para demonstran anti-kerajaan.

Dan penjahit 28 tahun outdid sendiri. Dia memasukkan sejumlah bendera Yaman kecil di kepalanya dan mengenakan bandana protes sebagai tali leher.

Usaha menjahit telah agak lambat akhir-akhir ini kerana orang tidak yakin apa yang akan terjadi di masa depan sehingga mereka telah berpegang pada wang mereka.

Anti-kerajaan pengunjuk rasa meneriakkan slogan-slogan dan memegang plakat selama demonstrasi di Tahrir Square menuntut pengunduran diri Presiden Ali Abdullah Saleh di Sana'a, Yaman, kelmarin. - Guan Glenn / Star The

Jadi Muhammad memutuskan untuk datang ke alun-alun dan menjual bandana anti-kerajaan, topi, pelekat dan bendera negara.

"Protes yang berasal dari curahan hati. Jadi orang yang membeli semua hal sebagai kenang-kenangan untuk mengingat saat ini, "katanya.

Salah satu dari mereka dengan souvenir protes anti-kerajaan 29 tahun Marwan Amery.

"Ini adalah revolusi pemuda. Kami ingin membuat Yaman seperti Malaysia.

"Dalam hanya 10 tahun, kita telah melihat bagaimana Malaysia telah berkembang pesat ekonomi, pendidikan, kewangan, pelancongan, dan industri.

"Malaysia sudah di seluruh dunia untuk belajar dan datang ke negara mereka dengan pemikiran yang baik dan idea baik 'untuk menyumbang.

"Kami telah menyaksikan mekar Malaysia dan kami ingin bahawa untuk masa depan kita sendiri. Apakah itu terlalu banyak untuk bertanya, "katanya.

Marwan percaya Malaysia berhutang kepada semua Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, yang selama masa jawatannya 22 tahun sebagai Perdana Menteri, berubah Malaysia untuk kedudukan sekarang ini.

"Apakah nenek moyang Dr Mahathir Mohamad dari Yaman kebetulan? Mungkinkah mereka datang dari Hadramont (di Yaman)? Banyak Malaysia mempunyai hubungan darah di sana, "tanya Marwan harapan.

Yaman secara keseluruhan telah menjunjung tinggi Malaysia dan di Dr Mahathir tertentu.

Marwan keinginan presiden sendiri, Ali Abdullah Saleh, yang memerintah Yaman selama 32 tahun, akan melakukan setengah banyak untuk negaranya.

"Saleh telah melakukan apa-apa bagi kita," katanya.

Bagi dia, Saleh dan pemimpin Libya Muammar Gaddafi adalah dua sisi mata uang yang sama.

"Tapi sekurang-kurangnya Gaddafi konsisten sehingga orang itu tahu apa yang mereka hadapi.

"Tapi Saleh licik. Dia mengatakan satu hal dan melakukan sesuatu yang lain dan ia mengubah firman-Nya sepanjang masa.

"Saya fikir jika Saleh dibiarkan berterusan, di masa depan ia boleh sama brutal Gaddafi adalah untuk umat-Nya. Itulah sebabnya mengapa kita harus membuatnya keluar sekarang, "katanya.

Sudah tujuh minggu sekarang sejak demonstrasi anti-kerajaan telah berkhemah di alun-alun dengan tujuan menendang presiden mereka keluar.

Dan mereka nampaknya lebih dekat untuk mencapai matlamat mereka sebagai menteri, duta besar, dan tokoh-tokoh kunci tentera sekarang menyokong protes mereka, selepas serangan 18 Mac mematikan ketika penembak tepat di atas atap, setia kepada rejim, menembak demonstran tak bersenjata, menewaskan 56 dan mencederakan beratus-ratus orang lain.

Amar Attam juga tertarik melihat akhir Saleh.

Dia mengatakan semua konsesi Saleh berusaha untuk membuat sekarang termasuk keluar awal, pemilihan awal, menawarkan dialog, membuat yakin dia tangan kuasa kepada "tangan yang selamat" adalah sia-sia.

"Dia tidak berbuat baik di masa mudanya dan memerintah negara selama 32 tahun ... Jadi saya tidak berharap dia untuk berubah dan berbuat baik sekarang pada tahun-tahun berikutnya.

"Dia adalah pembohong dan pembunuh. Kenapa kita tidak boleh punya presiden seperti Dr Mahathir Mohamad? "

Ketika menunjukkan bahawa Dr Mahathir mempunyai sedikit toleransi untuk protes jalanan anti-kerajaan, Amar membalas: "Jika kita mempunyai negara demokratik dan seorang pemimpin seperti Dr Mahathir yang peduli bagi umatnya dan memastikan negara dan rakyatnya makmur, maka kita akan tidak perlu untuk protes jalanan! "

Petikan asal the star

SANA'A: It was Mohamed Ahmad's first day to Tahrir Square to join the anti-government protesters.

And the 28-year-old tailor outdid himself. He stuck a number of small Yemeni flags on his head and wore a protest bandana as a tie.

The tailoring business has been a bit slow of late because people are uncertain of what would happen in the future so they have been holding on to their money.


Anti-government protesters chanting slogans and holding up placards during a demonstration at Tahrir Square demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a, Yemen, yesterday. - Glenn Guan/The Star

So Mohamed decided to come to the square and sell anti-government bandanas, caps, stickers and the country's flags.

“The protests are outpourings coming from the heart. So people are buying all these things as keepsakes to remember the moment,” he said.

One of those with anti-government protest souvenirs is 29-year-old Marwan Amery.

“It is a youth revolution. We want to make Yemen just like Malaysia.

“In just 10 years, we have seen how Malaysia has developed rapidly economically, in education, finance, tourism, and industries.

“Malaysians have gone all over the world to study and have come to their country with good thinking and good ideas' to contribute.

“We have watched Malaysia blossom and we want that for our own future. Is that too much to ask,” he said.

Marwan believed Malaysians owed it to all Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who during his 22-year tenure as Prime Minister, transformed Malaysia to the position it is today.

“Are Dr Mahathir Mohamad's ancestors from Yemen by any chance? Could they have come from Hadramont (in Yemen)? A lot of Malaysians have blood ties there,” asked a hopeful Marwan.

Yemenis as a whole have high regard for Malaysia and in particular Dr Mahathir.

Marwan wishes his own president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 32 years, would have done half as much for his country.

“Saleh has done nothing for us,” he said.

For him, Saleh and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are two sides of the same coin.

“But at least Gaddafi is consistent so his people know what they are dealing with.

“But Saleh is sly. He says one thing and does something else and he changes his word all the time.

“I think if Saleh is left to continue, in the future he can be as brutal as Gaddafi has been to his people. That is why we must get him out now,” he said.

It has been seven weeks now since the anti-government protesters have camped out at the square with the aim of kicking their president out.

And they seem to be closer to reaching their goal as ministers, ambassadors, and key army figures have now backed their protest, after the March 18 deadly attack when snipers on rooftops, loyal to the regime, shot at unarmed protesters, killing 56 and injuring hundreds of others.

Amar Attam is also keen on seeing the end of Saleh.

He said all the concessions Saleh was trying to make now including an early exit, early elections, offers of a dialogue, making sure he hands over power to “safe hands” were pointless.

“He didn't do good in his younger years and ruling the country for 32 years ... So I don't expect him to change and do good now in his later years.

“He is a liar and a murderer. Why couldn't we have a president like Dr Mahathir Mohamad?”

When pointed out that Dr Mahathir had little tolerance for anti-government street protests, Amar retorted: “If we had a democratic country and a leader like Dr Mahathir who cared for his people and made sure the country and its people prospered, then we would have no need for street protests!”