Futile: Saudi’s Decade-Long Attempt to Bottle Up Yemeni Youth Revolution Is Failing
“Saudi Arabia has crushed our revolution, turned our lives into hell because our uprising was interpreted by the ruling family as a threat to [their] influence and because of their fear of the revolution spreading to the Saudi interior.” Yemeni artist Aisha Ali Saeed
By Ahmed ABDULKAREEM
SANA’A, YEMEN A decade has passed since a massive popular uprising was sparked in Yemen by the wave of pro-democracy protests surging across the Middle East and North Africa known as the Arab Spring. The protests called for the overthrow of dictatorial regimes and sought democracy, sovereignty, and the elimination of poverty and unemployment. For Radwan Ali al-Haimi, a Yemeni youth and one of the leaders of the uprising, the hope for a new era of freedom and democracy cannot be crushed by Saudi Arabia and will come true with time.
Futile: Saudi s Decade-Long Attempt to Bottle Up Yemeni Youth Revolution is Failing
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