Written by: Hassan Mohammed Al-Bayti
While I was browsing Facebook, I found a Yemeni university student posting: Do you know of a crime punishable by exile from Yemen?
This is the case for students from inside Yemen. As for those outside of it, I remember some colleagues who graduated from Saudi and Canadian universities. In any case, congratulations to them on their graduation. When you say to some of them: Welcome back to your country and family, they say: So we've finished the first half!
So what's left after that half? You'd certainly say the second half, but with those games, there are more periods and penalty kicks due to the ongoing war in Yemen since 2015.
Some of them are seeking to complete their postgraduate studies, and they believe that using their time to seek knowledge is better for them than following the World Cup in Yemen, which has not yet been decided. However, there is another group that has been affected by the crisis, and these are members of the working class who went abroad to seek knowledge, then became workers abroad immediately after graduation due to the difficult living conditions their families are experiencing in Yemen.
The third group is the one searching for a homeland to protect and to which they can live in loyalty. These individuals are often found among those sent abroad to Western countries that allow them to obtain citizenship in exchange for certain conditions.
With these three, bright minds are absent from the country’s renaissance because everyone is preoccupied with their own situation and the situation of their families, and everyone has forgotten the higher goal of sending students abroad, which is to bring in competent individuals capable of rebuilding the country after the current state it is suffering from.
But how can they return under a government that supports failures and eliminates successful ones?
How can they return when their country is being destroyed by death and terror gangs and there is a lack of security in some areas?
But on the other hand, shouldn't an expatriate student who has not returned to his homeland plan for that return, even if it takes some time, by making every effort materially and morally to help him develop his country, with God's help?
But between the government and the students is a community that must recognize its responsibility and help its children achieve empowerment on the ground, hand in hand for the renaissance of the country and its people.
