Friday, 25. March 2011
Topic: War and Peace News - on March 25, 2011 at 6:10:00 PM CET
Libya, Yemen, Syria: The hierarchy of despotism
As we stare at screens lit up by another precision-guided Middle Eastern war — and this has already gone far beyond Washington's "humanitarian no-fly zone" euphemism — take a moment and look to Libya's east.
Yemen's increasingly desperate dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has deployed tanks against his own people. Last Friday, government snipers killed about 50 protesters after midday prayers. The sharpshooters, it was reported, targeted their heads.
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