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Yemen troops hit marching protestors

skynews.com.au

Sunday December 25, 2011

Troops commanded by relatives of Yemen’s outgoing president have attacked a crowd of more than 100,000 protesters peacefully marching into the capital, killing at least nine and driving the president to promise to leave the country.

Yielding to pressure to defuse the country’s turmoil, president Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he would leave for the United States after forces overseen by his son and nephew opened fire on the protesters.

They had marched for four days and 300km on foot to pressure the government not to give Saleh immunity from prosecution, in the first march of its kind in the impoverished nation that is home to a dangerous al-Qaeda offshoot.

After protesters arrived at the southern entrances to the capital, forces of the elite Republican Guard fired on them with automatic weapons, tear gas and water cannons, sparking hours of clashes. Read more…