President Saleh orders resolving of Amr-Qardhan dispute

SANA’A, August 21 (26sepnet)- A government source said Sunday that President Ali Abdullah Saleh has instructed resolving the tribal revenge between Bani Amr of Ibb and Qardhan of Dhamar. The confrontations had renewed last July. Reporter of Dhamar Anti-Revenge Committee Abdul-Karim al-Naqeeb said he had contacted judge Haamoud al-Hitar on the problem and that a mediation team was due to move to the region to patch up the feud. The dispute on tribal borders is said to date back to the early 1980s. The sporadic fighting over the past years claimed the lives of 66 and injured more than 140 people including eight women of both sides. Source: www.26sep.net, in Arabic AA/AA