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| Subject: Statists murder 26 demonstrators in Yemen Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:34 am | |
| Government forces and fighters backing protesters seeking President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ouster clashed anew with rocket and machine gun fire in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday a day after 26 demonstrators were shot dead.
Sunday's violence, jolting an uneasy, weeks-long stalemate, was the worst in recent months. Hundreds of people in an anti-government march were wounded as well when security forces fired on protesters who charged police lines.
Opposition organizers called for more action on Monday, rousing sleeping protesters who have been camped in Sanaa's Change Square for eight months to demand an end to 33 years of autocratic Saleh rule in impoverished Yemen.
Shouting over loudspeakers, organizers urged protesters to head back to a junction they had taken on Sunday night, known locally as Kentucky roundabout, and hinted they planned to push further into territory held by government forces.
The area had previously marked the dividing line between the parts of Sanaa held by loyalist troops and defected forces.
"Come on everyone, we will have breakfast at Kentucky roundabout and later we will have lunch somewhere else further down!" the speaker shouted.
But blocking the way of protesters trying to move forward were troops belonging to defected General Ali Mohsen, who threw his support behind the anti-Saleh movement some months ago but now seemed to be trying to defuse the situation.
In Geneva on Monday, Yemeni Foreign Minister Abubakr Abdullah Al-Qirbi said Sunday's bloodshed would be investigated and perpetrators would be prosecuted.
In a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council, he said: "The government of Yemen expresses its sorrow and condemnation for all acts of violence and bloodshed as those that happened yesterday in Sanaa. The government will investigate and hold accountable all those in charge of these acts."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/19/us-yemen-idUSTRE78H0YS20110919 _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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