At least four Yemeni demonstrators were injured, one seriously, by shots fired by soldiers during a protest near the office of the governor of Taiz, 257 miles southwest of Sanaa, according to medical sources. The doctor Sadeq al Shugaa, director of the hospital on the main square of Taiz Al Horreya, told Efe that among the victims found a seriously injured as a result of bullet wounds in the head.
In the square Al Horreya (Freedom, Arabic), where for weeks the opposition camp, have gathered about three thousand demonstrators opposed to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The shooting occurred when the demonstrators passed through a checkpoint on their way to a place of concentration where they appear every day to demand the resignation of Saleh as could be confirmed.
During the protest, about 500 demonstrators began chanting slogans against the opposition groups, who accepted an initiative of the Gulf countries for a peaceful transfer of power in Yemen. The soldiers opened fire when protesters refused to leave the place where they were gathered. Yemeni opposition has accepted all the terms of the initiative put forward last week by the Gulf countries for a transfer of power.
The proposal, unveiled Thursday by a mission of the Gulf Cooperation Council states that Saleh cede power to Vice President Rabo Mansour Hadi Abdi within thirty days and two months later parliamentary and presidential elections. Saleh is president of Yemen since unification between north and south of 1990 but since 1978 was the ruler of North Yemen.
In Taiz, as in other cities in Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa, develop demonstrations since late January, the heat of the riots in the Arab world. In these protests, which intensified in mid-February, first calling for political reform and shortly after the resignation of Saleh, in power in Yemen since unification between north and south of 1990 but since 1978 was the ruler of Yemen North. 
In the square Al Horreya (Freedom, Arabic), where for weeks the opposition camp, have gathered about three thousand demonstrators opposed to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The shooting occurred when the demonstrators passed through a checkpoint on their way to a place of concentration where they appear every day to demand the resignation of Saleh as could be confirmed.
During the protest, about 500 demonstrators began chanting slogans against the opposition groups, who accepted an initiative of the Gulf countries for a peaceful transfer of power in Yemen. The soldiers opened fire when protesters refused to leave the place where they were gathered. Yemeni opposition has accepted all the terms of the initiative put forward last week by the Gulf countries for a transfer of power.
The proposal, unveiled Thursday by a mission of the Gulf Cooperation Council states that Saleh cede power to Vice President Rabo Mansour Hadi Abdi within thirty days and two months later parliamentary and presidential elections. Saleh is president of Yemen since unification between north and south of 1990 but since 1978 was the ruler of North Yemen.
In Taiz, as in other cities in Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa, develop demonstrations since late January, the heat of the riots in the Arab world. In these protests, which intensified in mid-February, first calling for political reform and shortly after the resignation of Saleh, in power in Yemen since unification between north and south of 1990 but since 1978 was the ruler of Yemen North.
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