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| Massive Demonstration in Sana'a as Protesters Warn of Attempts to Abort Uprising |
| 2011-06-23 |
| [Yemen Post] A massive demonstration was held in Yemen's capital Sana'a on Tuesday in which tens of thousands of protesters called for an immediate transitional council and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud refusing external interventions affecting the implementation of the goals of the popular uprising. They also rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud confirming they will continue their revolution peacefully and condemning all attempts to leave the Yemeni people suffer amid acute shortages and day-and-night power outages. In the last few days, the fuel shortage has worsened with more than a half km long queues of cars seen in main streets in the capital and even there have been hundreds of cars parked on other streets near stations for days. "I am here on Daery Street for a three successive day. I cam here to fill my car but there was not petrol, and when a fuel shipment arrived a military commander came here to fill his car by force triggering the closure of the filling station," said Nabil Tarboosh, a driver. "I was forced to park my car here, because there is not an oil drop in it.....I can't move," he added. Meantime, the youth-led protesters in various squares of change and freedom warned on Tuesday of any attempts to implement any power transfer without their participation. "If such thing happens, we will escalate our protest until all political forces surrender to our demands," they said in a statement. The statement urged the Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition bloc, to meet their commitment towards the popular uprising and stop backing any regional or international initiatives for power transition in Yemen. Furthermore, the youth-led protesters renewed their refusal to inclusion of any of the Saleh regime members in the transitional council, adding," and if the council includes unwelcome opposition figures, the council will be announced illegitimate". |
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