Friday, March 18, 2011

Police fire: more than 40 deaths Obama: "Let them show"

Sana'a - Yemen The police fired on a crowd who were demonstrating in the central square of the change in the capital Sana'a, causing over 40 deaths and hundreds of wounded, medical sources told him. President Saleh has declared a state of emergency. Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets again today in the center of the Yemeni capital, to demand the fall of the regime of President Ali Abdallah Saleh, in power for 32 years, while thousands of loyalists have announced a similar demonstration.

The demonstration of anti-regime was opened under the name of "Friday the warning," while the loyalists responded by convening a counter-demonstration called the "Friday of Concord." Sana'a correspondent of pan-Arab Al Arabiya TV announced today that they were provided fresh violence between the two sides, following the wounding of at least twenty people in the capital and in southern Yemen.

Since last Sunday, about 300 demonstrators and police officers were injured during the protests. The escalation in Sana'a, remain high while the fires of Libya, the U.S. worries. Obama today expressed "strong condemnation" of the authorities of Yemen, President Saleh and invited "to meet its public commitment to allow peaceful demonstrations." "Those responsible for the violence of today are held accountable" for their actions - he added - The United States is on the side of universal rights, including that of freedom of expression and assembly, as well as on the side of a policy change that meets the aspirations the people of Yemen.

"" It 's more important than ever that all parties participate in an open and transparent process that takes into account the legitimate concerns of the Yemeni people, and allow a peaceful, orderly and democratic way to a stronger and more prosperous nation ". It would be at least one person dead and dozens wounded the provisional report of clashes today in Syria, according to the social networks and local sources, including security forces and anti-regime demonstrators in Dara, a village south of Damascus to the border with Jordan .

tensions remain high in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, where the population has always called for today, at the end of Friday prayers, new protests against their government. In Bahrain, in particular, the demonstrators called on the population take to the streets today to demand the deposition of the Al Khalifa dynasty, dominating a Sunni minority to majority Shiite country for nearly two centuries.

E 'in mid-February that thousands of anti-government protest in the streets demanding an end to the despotic regime. The protests were harshly repressed, with a death toll that comes to more than 12 dead and thousands injured. Today, protesters will also make their voices heard against the invasion of the country and Saudi participation in Riyadh in the brutal repression of peaceful protests.

In Saudi Arabia, however, opposition representatives have held a 'march of a million people' in defiance of the ban on street protests. Yesterday, more than four thousand demonstrators in Qatif, in the east, have asked the government reforms and the release of political prisoners. Today, however, ask your executive to recalibrate its troops from Bahrain.

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