Talk:People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

Motto
Is it really true that the motto of the country is "There's more than one way to skin a cat"? It doesn't sound credible enough for me, and I couldn't find any proof on Google. Furthermore, it was added by an anon. --J&#363;zeris | say what? | 19:50, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I've removed the motto. --J&#363;zeris | huh? 08:59, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * No, it was added by my brother as a joke. Funny that it stayed for so long, and people even corrected its grammar. Sorry for the vandalism.

Query
"It was the only Communist state to ever exist in the Middle East and Islamic world"

Surely when Afghanistan was under communist rule it qualified as a communist state in the Islamic world.
 * Good point, changed it from Only to First --ThrashedParanoid 21:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Palmiro put that it was the only "Arab communist state" to have existed, i think that works better so long as Afganistan isnt counted as arab.--ThrashedParanoid 21:03, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Most of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakstan etc) was Socialist since the 1920s and were part of the USSR. South Yemen is the only Arab Communist State to exist, not the only or first in the Islamic world.
 * Yes, but they weren't states. Was Azerbaijan maybe? Palmiro | Talk 10:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Somalia was Marxist from about 1969-1991 under the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party of Siad Barre. Professing Marxism and obviously then, Communism. Somalia is considered Arab, at least since it is in the Arab League I assume it is. Thus, I believe it is incorrect to say it is the only Arab Communist State since Somalia was also one and this is the reason I have edited the page.

Human rights
Why is there a special section on human rights? Very few country articles have such sections, was human rights abuse in the PDRY exceptional? From reading the Amnesty International reports, it does not seem exceptional compared to other 3rd world countries, including the former YAR.--128.139.226.36 08:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Voting
Was universal sufferage actually proscribed by the constitution? That seems very odd. The country claimed to be democratic --Descendall 05:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Common but uncorrect
The problem with PDRY's page is that todays Internet people are young and have no reliable information of PDRY's times. I mean the official information issued by the PDRY's (PRSY's) officials themselves and respected as such all over the world. For instance, there never was such term as "Marxist" or "Communist" State in PDRY's official documents, but there was a "scientific socialism" clamed as an official ideology of the State by Constitution. There never was such a State as "South Yemen" - it was only a commonly used in speach reduced first official name of this State - the People's Republic of the South Yemen. In fact, the geographic name Yemen was used befor 1967 only for the Northern part of the country - not for 24 little separated States and regions under the British supervision - each one with its own historical name. The common name for all of them was South Arabia (so it was on its currency units of South Arabia Currency Authorithy dated 1964). In the same time the idea of a Yemeni Unity was promoted by Yemeni young revolutionaries from both the North and the South from 1930s-1940s when they were forming the united movement against the Imam in the North and the colonial administration in the South. They clamed that Yemen should be re-united, the struggle for Yemeni Unifiqation became their slogan: "li-nuna:Dil min 'agl taHqi:q 'al-waHdah 'al-yemeniyya!" The Government posts of Ministers for the Unification accured first in the YAR, then in the PRSU/PDRY, too. The right Arabic name of PDRY began with adeni-prononced word "Gumhiriyya" = the Republic not "Jumhuriyya" (G not J)as in the North. The word South = "Ganub/Ganubi" is also with "G" not "J" because it is was a literated norm. In general, this article need some serious corrections without any dependency of ideologically determined or little informed motivations. Mutargim (talk) 01:19, 27 July 2008 (UTC)