Affrontements à Sanaa : quatre morts – 13 mars 2011

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Police fire on protesters in Yemen, injuring at least 100

boston.com

14 03 2011

SANA, Yemen — Police on rooftops fired bullets and tear gas at protesters yesterday, wounding at least 100 people camping out near Sana University. The day’s violence was the latest evidence that monthlong protests demanding the resignation of Yemen’s longtime leader were spiraling out of control.

Embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh has resorted to increasingly violent tactics to try to put down the burgeoning uprising against his 32-year rule, deploying dozens of armed supporters on the streets in an attempt to intimidate protesters.

Wielding clubs and knifes, police and regime supporters — described by protesters as government-sponsored thugs — attacked activists, said Mohammed al-Abahi, a doctor in charge of a makeshift hospital near the university.

Among the wounded yesterday, more than 20 suffered gas inhalation, and one was in critical condition after being struck with a bullet, the doctor said.

In the main square and in surrounding streets, eyewitnesses spoke of people being beaten up and threatened, as well as disappearing. The violence came a day after security forces killed seven demonstrators in protests around the country. Read more…

Five protesters killed, 105 injured in Yemeni clashes with police

English.news.cn

2011-03-13

SANAA, March 13 (Xinhua) — Five protesters died and 105 others were injured Sunday in clashes with the police in Yemen, eyewitnesses and official sources said.

Thousands of demonstrators demanding the immediate end of the 33-year rule of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh stormed and burned the police station of Dar Saad district in Aden Sunday, in protests against « the use of force by police against Saturday’s overnight peaceful demonstrators, » eyewitnesses said.

Five protesters got wounded in Aden, according to police sources.

In the capital Sanaa, about 100 protesters were wounded Sunday by tear gas and shots of live ammunition in clashes with the riot police outside Sanaa University, Nadia Mohamed, a resident near the scene, told Xinhua.

Ten of the injured were in critical condition, she said, adding that armored vehicles of security forces were deployed in front of the protest sit-ins in al-Kuwait Street, where around 100,000 demonstrators have been camping out for around three weeks.

An official of the Interior Ministry who requested anonymity told Xinhua that 140 riot policemen have been hospitalized due to injuries by stones from protesters outside Sanaa University since Saturday.

Ali al-Fakih, a senior protest organizer, told Xinhua Sunday evening that small skirmishes were going on between protesters and riot police near the university as the latter were trying to break up the sit-in.

Another five protesters were injured by gunshots in clashes in Al-Ma’afir district in the southern province of Taiz, about 200 km south of Sanaa, according to the opposition media outlet al-islah. net. Read more…