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Massive Demonstration Marks New Era of Revolution in Yemen Capital
[Yemen Post] Thousands of Yemeni people poured onto the streets of the capital Sanaa, in a demonstration which marked a new era of the popular uprising amid ongoing demolition of the protest camps across the republic.

For the first time since the uprising erupted in early 2011, the demonstration passed through areas including the presidential zone and other places which have been very dangerous since loyalists of the ex-regime have been stationed there to crack down on revolutionaries.

The people gathered on Taiz Street and walked passing through many streets chanting 'freedom and dignity slogans'.

They carried the flags of Yemen and Syria
Why Syria?
and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud: the people want to prosecute the serial killer, referring to the ex-leader, Saleh; and 'the people want to build a new Yemen'.

They also rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud in solidarity with the Syrian people, who have been struggling to oust the Assad regime for more than one year.
Yes, but the Egyptians have been struggling to...whatever it is. Surely they deserve sympathetic hollered slogans as well.
The Yemeni parties signed in November a West-backed power-transfer deal, which saw Saleh relinquish power after 33 years in office and after almost nine months of protests against his rule.

Saleh signed the deal in return for full immunity from prosecution over administrative and financial corruption and his aides were given immunity from prosecution, but not from terrorism-related issues.

Locals in some areas warmly welcomed the protesters and poured waters and sweets over them, chanting together: corrupt officials must go out and free people must build a new Yemen.

The protesters held a sit-in at the republican palace in downtown Sanaa, not far from the change square, and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud blessing the victory of the forces against Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
 province.

The Yemeni army on Tuesday waged fierce battles against Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons forcing them from their last strongholds in Abyan after months of a US-backed offensive.


Posted by: Fred 2012-06-15
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