Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Tanks deployed in the capital of General pass with the opposition

SANA'A - More and more high tension in Yemen: Sana'a the capital will see a lot of circular tanks, deployed mostly around the presidential palace, after the announcement of the defection of several senior officers, passed with the opposition. The governor of Aden, the second most important city in the country, has sided with the demonstrators.

UN papers comes an appeal by the Secretary-General for an immediate halt to the violence and start the dialogue. The President, however, does not yield, "the majority of the people with me," said Ali Abdallah Saleh, "resist." LOOK AT THE PICTURES Military and diplomatic step with the rebels.

According to Al Jazeera are several high-ranking generals who joined the protest movement against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose regime is weakening more and more. General Ali Mohsen Al Ahmar, the charismatic leader of the army and brother of Saleh, has announced his defection to the press today: "We support and protect young people who protest in University Square in Sana'a," said the commander of the Yemeni army's first armored division, the first officer of that rank to go with the opposition after last January started the protest movement against the regime.

After his announcement, two other generals were soon joined him. A dozen, including officers of all levels and ranks of soldiers, have publicly announced their transition to the streets in protest of the file. The list, also in the diplomatic field, increases by the hour against the bloody repression of anti-government demonstrations of the opposition, resigned this morning, the Yemeni ambassador to Damascus, after a few hours after the one in Saudi Arabia.

Before he had left the Yemeni ambassador to the United Nations, Kuwait and Lebanon. "The president should resign." The shadow of a military coup reaches across the country, and begin to get explicit demands for the resignation of president. Five ambassadors of Yemen in Europe have called for Saleh be put aside: they are the owners of the representations in Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Berlin and London, in addition to the consul in Frankfurt.

Their appeal was also signed by Ambassador of Yemen in Cuba The head of the main tribes in Yemen, Sheikh Sadek al-Ahmar, urged the president to leave, with a "departure from the scene with honor." "It must go," he says in no uncertain terms the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. According to the owner of the Quai d'Orsay Saleh "is faced with the inevitable transfer of power." From Great Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "extremely concerned" about what is happening in the country, and calls for reform.

For the White House viewed the violence in the capital Sana'a is "unacceptable", and the EU, while condemning the use of force against the protesters, say they are ready to review policies towards Yemen. Saleh: "Resito, the people are with me." While his regime crumbles, Ali Abdullah Saleh promised to "resist" in its place because the "majority of the people with me." Abandoned by politicians, diplomats and the army, the Yemeni president turned to Saudi Arabia for help, asking the authorities in Riyadh to mediate in the crisis that has shaken the country.

"We are still here - said Saleh - the vast majority of people are on the side of safety, stability and the Constitution. Those who want chaos, violence, hatred and sabotage are just a minority." In the afternoon, Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ali announced that the army is on the side of Saleh and defend against any "coup against democracy." "We will not allow in any case, attempts at a coup d'etat against democracy and constitutional legitimacy or security breaches of the nation and citizens," he said.

And 'no doubt, however, that the defections excellent weighing the fate of the president. Increase the victims. Hard in recent days the repression of the square: The latest figures report that 20 deaths following clashes between the military and Shiite demonstrators yesterday in Al-Jawf region, near the border with Saudi Arabia.

Friday's shooting at the crowd gathered at University Square resulted in 52 dead and over a hundred injured. The severity of the budget has prompted the President to dismiss the government and prompted the United Nations in a harsh condemnation by the mouth of Ban Ki Moon UN Secretary-General addressed to the leadership of Yemen and Bahrain - the scene of fighting as serious - because it put an end to violence to quell riots in the square and open dialogue "inclusive." E 'must talk with all parties, said Ban Ki Moon, renewing his disdain for the use of bullets against the demonstrators in Yemen.

Thousands to the streets of Dera, Syria. The protests do not spare even Syria, where today thousands of people took to the streets of Dera in the South. The armed forces are converging around the city and it is feared that new riots and clashes. Thousands attended - chanting slogans for freedom - the funeral of Raed al-Kerad, 23, latest victim on Sunday, the crackdown by security forces.

A Dera five people have been killed since the beginning of the protests. The French government has condemned the violence and demanded the release of arrested demonstrators. Anti-regime demonstrations there were today Jassem, a town south of the capital. Media sources report that demonstrations against the Baathist regime in power for nearly half a century, even in the Duma, a suburb north of Damascus, where ten days ago several students were arrested at a local school as surprised to write slogans on the walls is prohibited.

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