Yemeni Demonstrators Killed in Clashes with Police

VOA News

07 July 2010

Yemeni officials say police killed two demonstrators in the southern city of Aden, Wednesday, after clashes broke out between protesters and security forces.

Police officials say the clashes erupted after law enforcement authorities tried to prevent demonstrators from holding an unauthorized funeral march for a southern secessionist who died in police custody last month.  The secessionist was among a group of people detained by authorities following a June attack in Aden that left 11 people dead.

At least two other protesters were wounded, Wednesday.  The incident took place after southern secessionists had gathered to mark the « Day of Rage, » the anniversary of a failed 1994 uprising that sought southern independence.

North and south Yemen united in 1990.  However, rebels unsuccessfully tried to secede from the north four years later.

Separately, a Yemeni court has sentenced two suspected al-Qaida militants to death for a series of lethal attacks against military and police targets last year.

Officials say after their verdicts were read Wednesday, 18-year-old Mansour Saleh Dalil and 23-year-old Mubarak Ali Hadi al-Shabwani shouted, « God is great. »  Dalil said he will appeal his verdict, while al-Shabwani rejected the legitimacy of the court.

The Sana’a court convicted the pair of being part of an armed gang that killed nine people in 2009.  Prosecutors said Dalil and al-Shabwani killed three security officials and their two bodyguards in November when they ambushed their vehicle in the southern province of Hadramut.

The two were also convicted of killing a Yemeni solider in eastern Marib province last July when they attacked a military truck carrying weapons and ammunition.

Prosecutors said when police tried to arrest the militants after the attack, the pair killed two security officials and a civilian.  Five soldiers also were wounded in the operation.

Yemen intensified its campaign against al-Qaida after the group’s local branch – al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula – claimed responsibility for the failed bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

Two Yemeni protesters dead in clash with police on ‘day of rage’

thenational.ae

July 07. 2010 7

Two protesters were killed and four others injured today when police opened fire to disperse hundreds of supporters of the Southern Movement, which is demanding the separation of southern Yemen.

The Southern Movement called for southerners to mark a “day of rage” in the tightly patrolled city of Aden on the 16th anniversary of the short-lived civil war in which the South was defeated.

The group had also called for people to attend the funeral of Ahmed Darwish, who died last Friday after he was detained along with dozens of others following a suspected al Qa’eda attack on Aden intelligence headquarters on June 19.

According to local sources, the protesters were marching towards a state hospital to recover Darwish’s corpse when the clashes erupted with police.

2 killed, 4 wounded in clashes between police and separatists in southern Yemen

CP

7 07 2010

SAN’A, Yemen — A Yemeni security official says two demonstrators were killed and four wounded in clashes between separatists and riot police across the troubled south.

Each side blamed the other for the violence.

The security official said the southern Yemeni secessionists opened fire first, and police shot back. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.

Naser al-Khodbugi, a southern movement leader, said the protesters were not armed, but police used gunfire, batons and tear gas to disperse crowds in Yemen’s main southern cities Thursday.

Yemen has been struggling with a secessionist movement in its south, where separatists have clashed with government forces.

~ par Alain Bertho sur 8 juillet 2010.

Publié dans émeutes, riots, الشغب