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Arabia
Students Injured in Hodeida as Opposition Says Saleh Relatives "Roadblock to Transition"
2011-06-22
[Yemen Post] At least ten students were maimed when the security forces broke into Hodeida University to disperse a rally by Art College students demanding a delay to final exams.
"Nobody could study with all the marching and shouting that had to be done. Besides, the security guys stole our crayons -- we can't do art exams without crayons!"
Locals said that the central security forces used live bullets and teargas to break up the rally and attacked students with batons and rifle butts.

Some students were also placed in long-term storage amid continuous protests calling for the ouster of the regime, opening trials for officials responsible for violence and other crimes as well as urging an immediate transitional council.

In Sana'a, a massive demonstration was held today in which thousands of people, who marched from the square of change outside Sana'a University to Hayel Street, urged to from an immediate transitional council and demanded the departure of the remaining officials in the Saleh regime.

The protesters urged Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, the son of President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
being treated in Soddy Arabia and who commands the elite republican guard, and Saleh's nephew, Ammar Muhammad Saleh, chief of the national security system, to leave the country.

Moreover, they refused the mandate of the U.S. and Soddy Arabia on Yemen.

Meantime, the front man for the Joint Meeting Parties, Muhammad Qahtan, has accused the relatives of President Saleh of being as a roadblock to start a practical transitional period in the country.

Saleh's relatives are seeking power inheritance and this must not take place, he said, warning that if reconciliation solutions fail, the youth-led uprising has the final word.
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