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| Four Killed in South Yemen Clashes |
| 2014-01-18 |
| [An Nahar] lashes between Yemeni troops and secessionist faceless myrmidons killed four people Friday in southern Yemen, two of them soldiers, sources on both sides said. The fighting broke out when the faceless myrmidons ambushed a military vehicle, killing the soldiers and wounding four others, a military source told Agence La Belle France Presse. Two faceless myrmidons died in the fighting in the town of Daleh, said Abderrahim al-Naqib, from the Southern Movement, accusing the army of bombing residential areas and a hospital. Naqib said a third krazed killer was "clinically dead" and 21 fighters maimed. Tensions have soared in southern Yemen following deadly festivities at the end of December in which secessionists stormed a governor's office to raise the flag of the former South Yemen. Two coppers and a civilian died in that fighting. The following day, 19 people were killed when the army shelled a funeral tent, according to faceless myrmidons and medical sources. After British colonial rule ended in 1967, southern Yemen was independent until union with the north in 1990. A secession attempt four years later sparked a brief civil war that ended with northern forces taking over the south. Southern grievances have hindered the political transition following the 33-year rule of President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , who stepped down last year following Arab Spring-inspired protests. |
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