Sunday, May 8, 2011

One protester killed in clashes in southern Yemen

.- A Yemeni protester was killed and four others wounded in clashes with police during a protest in the southern city of Taiz, medics said. Hamud Aqlan The doctor, who works in a field hospital set up by the opposition, told Efe that the victims were shot by officers against demonstrators. The police fired into the air and used tear gas to break up a concentration of about two thousand people calling for the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in the center of Taiz, 250 miles southwest of Sanaa.

Protests in Yemen began last January 27 and initially demanded democratic reforms, but now require Saleh's regime fell. The possible solution to the political crisis is at an impasse by rejecting a proposal Saleh countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) which provided for peaceful departure from power.

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