Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, which is still spoken in the Arab world

The high voltage returns to Syria, where army tanks surrounded the town of Dara, theater for two weeks of anti-regime protests. According to rumors, later denied, the security forces had fired on the crowd. The Syrian people expected the speech to the nation that Bashar al-Assad should be taken by Wednesday.

The President has also appealed to Parliament to voice of Prime Minister Mohammed Habash, during a night sitting asked to report early in the classroom to explain the reforms announced on television from his super Councillor Bouthaina Shaaban. Among the measures promised, stand the withdrawal of the state of emergency in force for 48 years, as demanded in a loud voice from the square, and the reform of the law on political parties and the media.

The protests erupted in the country, with clashes between demonstrators and police have claimed, as reported by the associations for the protection of human rights, at least 130 deaths, most of which fell in the town of Dara, 130 km south of the capital, near the Jordanian border. Meanwhile, Egypt's armed forces have announced that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family were placed in house arrest, with the prohibition to leave the country.

Yemen. Despite the relentless protests against the regime and the need for new reforms, President Saleh seems determined to stay in power. This morning, in the explosion of a cache of weapons and ammunition in the southern region of Abyen have died at least 110 people as reported by the satellite TV 'al-Arabiya'.

According to local sources the nearby town of Jaar arrived yesterday in the hands of hundreds of tribal militias, including al-Qaeda militants, who patrol the area aboard armored vehicles stolen army. Shortly before the explosion, the arms depot was finished in the hands of militants. Bahrain.

The hypothesis of a mediation of the Kuwait crisis that is shaking in Bahrain was "totally unfounded". Who said it was the foreign minister of the united archipelago, Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Khalifa, thus rejecting the initiative Kuwaiti emir, Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who had offered to facilitate dialogue between Shiite opposition - to the streets for weeks - and the Sunni minority in power.

The initiative was welcomed by the country's main opposition group, the Shiite Wefaq, and the Gulf Cooperation Council. "Any item on the mediation of Kuwait is totally false, there have been previous efforts that have not received any reply and that ended with the imposition of martial law," the minister wrote about Twitter.

Yesterday, the Gulf Cooperation Council, which brings together Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, had welcomed the mediation, hoping that would lead in the direction of "stability and security" of Bahrain. The small archipelago is united by strong protests rocked the Shiite majority, which accounts for 60 percent of the population against the Sunni Khalifa ruling dynasty.

Earlier this month, the king has declared martial law while the Sunni Gulf allies, primarily Saudi Arabia, Bahrain have sent troops to quell the revolt.

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