Yemeni President wants to deal with effects of tribal revenge acts

The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered the formation of a higher national committee for eliminating revenge acts phenomenon which passively affects foreign investments and the country's tourism movement as well as threatening social peace and security.

The Yemeni official news agency Saba said that Saleh asked in a message he addressed on Wednesday to the prime minister Abdul Qader Bajmal that the committee will limit consequences of revenge related issues, explain its reasons and propose appropriate solutions and deal with its resulted consequences.

The committee will include the ministers of justice, the interior, local administration and finance as well as large number if judges and senior Sheikh chieftains and social figures.

There is, however, no precise statistics on revenge acts issues in Yemen, but this phenomenon is greatly increasing in the northern and eastern governorates where tribal composition is overwhelming at the expense of government's laws.

The spread of weapons in the hands of citizens- estimated at 50 and 60 million pieces of arms in a country where the population does not exceed 20 million- constitutes a main reason for the spread of revenge phenomenon.

Citizens believe that the corruption of most of the judicial departments and governments establishments is another reason to take the law into their own hands.