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| Scores Injured as Pro-Regime Forces, Thugs Attack Yemen Protest |
| 2011-07-11 |
| [Yemen Post] Scores of antigovernment protesters were maimed when the security forces and regime supporters intercepted a peaceful demonstration in Yemen's western province of Hodeida on Sunday. Local sources said that the pro-government forces and people intercepted the demonstration, which started the people's square and headed to Sana'a Street, and attacked protesters with live bullets, teargas, batons, rocks and daggers. At the beginning, the regime supporters attacked the protesters with rocks, batons and daggers and then the security forces fired live bullets and teargas at them, they said. At least twenty protesters were seriously injured due to live bullets, beating and stones, and scores of others suffered teargas inhalation, they said. The demonstrators erupted into the streets to reject international and regional interventions in Yemen chanting slogans refusing the U.S. and Saudi mandate. In the past few days, massive demonstrations have been held in Yemeni cities to condemn regional and international positions towards what is happening in Yemen and reject any mandate affecting the popular youth-led uprising. Separately, the Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition coalition, has urged the youth-led protesters at the squares of change and freedom in all Yemeni cities to escalate their revolution to oust the remaining rogue gang of the Saleh regime. Praising the six-month strife of the people, the coalition urged the protesters to unite, align and double their effort to put an end to the continuous aggressions of this rogue gang against the people, pointing to the attacks of the elite republican guard in some cities including Taiz and Sana'a. The elite republican guard is killing, displacing and terrifying thousands of families including children and women in Yemeni cities as the rogue gang of the Saleh regime continues to hold power against the choice the Yemeni people, the coalition said. |
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