Twelve years after Yemen uprising, people’s dreams are shattered
Al JazeeraSanaa University students pass through Change Square every day, heading to lecture halls or back home, or to grab a tea in one of the cafés that line the square. Even the politically minded probably know there’s no point in political action because 12 years ago, in February 2011, thousands of youth filled the square and the streets of the Yemeni capital in unstoppable mass protests that spread like wildfire in many cities, calling for the end of the 33-year rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh. As Yemen marks 12 years since the February 2011 uprising, aspirations remain unfulfilled and the unthinkable has happened as the country slipped into years of strife and then war, which pushed it into the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis. ‘My mind drew beautiful images of Yemen’s future’ Saleem Ghalib sits at a sunny table in a café in Maeen, thumbing through photos of Yemen’s uprising on his mobile phone and remembering the time he spent on Change Square. “Everyone around me in the tent at Change Square assumed that Yemen had started on the path to peace and prosperity the moment Saleh officially stepped down in February 2012.
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