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Oppressed Strikes in South Yemen 2
Two dead as Yemen enforces ban on protests
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Compiled by Daily Star staff
Monday, September 03, 2007
Two people were killed and 10 wounded in clashes between Yemeni police and demonstrators protesting rising prices, opposition sources said on Sunday. A provincial government source said one man was killed and several were wounded late on Saturday as the police tried to enforce a government ban on unauthorized protests announced on Friday. The move came after opposition parties staged several protests in recent weeks to demand state measures to curb rising prices of consumer goods.
Government officials say the rise is due to a spike in the prices of commodities such as wheat in global markets.
The government has ordered state bodies to import such goods and provide them to citizens at fair prices and ensure that they are not monopolized by local merchants.
Four out of 10 Yemenis live on less than $2 a day, according to Britan's Department for International Development, which says Yemen's oil, its main earnings source, is expected to dry up by 2015. Yemen's oil production dropped to around 300,000 barrels per day from around 380,000 bpd at the beginning of the year.
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Official: 2 Killed in Yemen Protests
Monday September 3, 2007 2:31 AM
By AHMED AL-HAJJ
Associated Press Writer
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - Riot police opened fire on a demonstration by retired officers and soldiers, killing two people and wounding more than 20 on the second day of protests demanding the right to rejoin the army, the head of an opposition party said.
The Interior Ministry said civilians opened fire on the demonstrators, killing one person and wounding five others. The ministry identified the protesters as ``outlaw rioters'' and said several people were arrested.
The incident followed rallies by thousands in several southern cities on Saturday, which underlined the increasing tensions between northern and southern Yemen 13 years after a civil war. The protesters were largely members of the army of south Yemen who were ousted after being defeated by northern forces.
Demonstrations by disaffected veterans first erupted in early August, when thousands marched through the port city of Aden and clashed with police. One person was reportedly killed and some 1,000 were arrested.
Protesters have complained that the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh is ignoring discrimination at the hands of the northern-dominated ******ship.
North and South Yemen were united in 1990, with Saleh - who had been the north's president - remaining in his post. In 1994, rebels announced the secession of the south, and battled northern forces for several months in a civil war that ended in their defeat.
Yemen was a haven for Islamists from across the Arab world during the 1990s, but after the Sept. 11 attacks, it declared support for the U.S. campaign against terrorism.
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Southern Yemeni ex-soldiers demand jobs
By AHMED AL-HAJJ, Associated Press WriterSat Sep 1, 5:48 PM ET
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Rriot police fired bullets and tear gas Saturday to disperse thousands of retired officers and soldiers in southern Yemen who gathered to demand a place in the country's military again, police and protesters said.
The demonstration, which was the second of its kind in the past month, underlined increasing tensions between southern and northern Yemen 13 years after a civil war. The protesters were largely members of the army of south Yemen who were ousted after being defeated by northern forces.
The Yemeni government deployed dozens of armored vehicles Saturday and sealed off several roads in the southern port city of Aden, 200 miles south of the capital Sana'a, where the protest was taking place, according to a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The security measures were intended to prevent additional people from joining the demonstration. During the first protest in early August, one person was reportedly killed and some 1,000 arrested when thousands of demonstrators marching toward downtown Aden clashed with police.
The government said it had responded to the former military personnel's demands by allowing more than 7,000 of them back into the army, but Abdu al-Muatari, the spokesman for the retired officers, said that was only a partial solution.
"Protests will continue until all demands are met," al-Muatari told The Associated Press. "We want to feel that we are citizens and partners and not followers."
Al-Muatari said police and soldiers rounded up more than 200 people in Aden, adding that the clashes had prevented schools and government institutions from operating Saturday.
A local official in southern Yemen's Hadramawt valley, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, said that the clashes continued late into the night Saturday and that at least 19 protesters were wounded in the southern cities of Aden and al-Mukalla, 350 miles southeast of San'a.
Protesters complain the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh is ignoring discrimination at the hands of the northerner-dominated ******ship.
North and South Yemen were united in 1990, with Saleh — who had been the north's president — remaining in his post. In 1994, rebels announced the secession of the south, and battled northern forces for several months in a civil war that ended in their defeat.
Afterward, about 60,000 southern servicemen were discharged from the army, and many of them fled abroad. Most have since returned, attracted by amnesty and promises they would be allowed to re-enlist.
But many have not been allowed back into the military, which is dominated by northerners. At the same time, southerners complain that they are kept out of government jobs — a main source of employment in the south — in favor of northerners brought in to fill the bureaucracy and security forces.
Northerners also continue to hold large tracts of land in the south granted to them after the civil war.
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Official: 2 Killed in Yemen Protests
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Monday September 3, 2007 2:31 AM
By AHMED AL-HAJJ
Associated Press Writer
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - Riot police opened fire on a demonstration by retired officers and soldiers, killing two people and wounding more than 20 on the second day of protests demanding the right to rejoin the army, the head of an opposition party said.
The Interior Ministry said civilians opened fire on the demonstrators, killing one person and wounding five others. The ministry identified the protesters as ``outlaw rioters'' and said several people were arrested.
The incident followed rallies by thousands in several southern cities on Saturday, which underlined the increasing tensions between northern and southern Yemen 13 years after a civil war. The protesters were largely members of the army of south Yemen who were ousted after being defeated by northern forces.
Demonstrations by disaffected veterans first erupted in early August, when thousands marched through the port city of Aden and clashed with police. One person was reportedly killed and some 1,000 were arrested.
Protesters have complained that the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh is ignoring discrimination at the hands of the northern-dominated ******ship.
North and South Yemen were united in 1990, with Saleh - who had been the north's president - remaining in his post. In 1994, rebels announced the secession of the south, and battled northern forces for several months in a civil war that ended in their defeat.
Yemen was a haven for Islamists from across the Arab world during the 1990s, but after the Sept. 11 attacks, it declared support for the U.S. campaign against terrorism.
Southern Yemeni ex-soldiers demand jobs