{"id":1759,"date":"2011-09-19T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2011-09-19T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:38:57","slug":"street-clashes-resume-in-yemeni-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/09\/19\/1759\/","title":{"rendered":"Street clashes resume in Yemeni capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/yemen_protest_killing.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>At least 21 people have been killed and over 100 injured in fresh clashes on the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, a day after 26 anti-government protesters were shot dead and hundreds wounded by troops and gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.  <!--more-->  <br \/>According to reports, Monday&#8217;s deaths occurred as snipers fired upon passers-by and peaceful protesters demonstrating at Change Square.<br \/>&#8220;Help me, oh my God look at his slaughter!&#8221; said the father of a boy who died from a gunshot wound to the head.<br \/>&#8220;We were just in the car on Hayel Street (near the fighting). I stepped out to get some food and left my two boys in the car and I heard the older one scream. The little one was shot straight through the head.&#8221;<br \/>The clashes came as protesters tried to push further into territory held by government forces after extending their camp overnight.<br \/>The opposition had earlier vowed to press ahead with demonstrations despite Sunday&#8217;s crackdown.<br \/>A freelance journalist stationed in Yemen, told Al Jazeera, &#8220;Everything points to more protest&#8221;.<br \/>Meanwhile, Abdu al-Janadi, Yemen&#8217;s deputy information minister, rejected accusations that the regime had planned attacks on the protesters and accused what he described as &#8220;unknown assailants&#8221; of carrying out the acts.<br \/>&#8220;This attack was prepared so as to kill as many people as they could. &#8230; This is a plot against all the Yemeni people,&#8221; al-Janadi told a British television station.<br \/>Also on Monday, two people were killed and 10 injured when security forces loyal to the president opened fire on protesters in the city of Taiz.<br \/><strong><br \/>Sanaa in &#8216;darkness&#8217;<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Tens of thousands of protesters calling for an end to president Saleh&#8217;s 33-year rule took to the streets of the capital on Sunday.<br \/>Mohammad al-Qadhi, a Yemeni journalist, said government snipers had fired on demonstrators from rooftops.<br \/>&#8220;I talked to one of the protesters. He told me shots were fired on chests, legs, and other parts of the body,&#8221; he said.<br \/>Witnesses said security forces and armed civilians opened fire on protesters who left Change Square, where they had camped since February demanding regime change, and marched towards the city centre.<br \/>&#8220;I spoke to a doctor yesterday who said that one of the wounds he&#8217;d seen in someone&#8217;s back was far bigger than could have been a rifle,&#8221; said a freelance journalist. &#8220;It was a big circle in the man&#8217;s back suggesting it was, you know, it was either anti-aircraft or RPG that was used.&#8221;<br \/>The journalist said he counted at least 16 bodies piled up in a mosque and most of them were shot in the head.<br \/>&#8220;Most of them are under 22. I saw one that was 16 years old,&#8221; he said.<br \/>&#8220;There are three hospitals in Sanaa filled to the brim with the injured. One doctor said he expects the death toll to rise over to 50 by tomorrow morning.&#8221;<br \/>Munir al Mawri, a Yemeni analyst, said the US was making a big mistake by taking a neutral stance and dealing with the crackdown as if it were a political crisis that could be solved by the opposition and the government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Power transfer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The renewed crackdown on protesters came amid reports that Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen&#8217;s vice-president, would sign a Gulf Arab initiative to arrange for a transfer of power in Yemen &#8220;within a week&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;Within a week, the vice-president will sign the Gulf Initiative in the name of the president,&#8221; a high-ranking Saudi official, who requested anonymity, told reporters.<br \/>Last week, Saleh authorised Hadi to negotiate a power transfer with the opposition.<br \/>The initiative was proposed by the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council and sets the path for a peaceful transition of power from Saleh, who has ruled Yemen since 1978.<br \/>According to the Saudi official, &#8220;among the guarantees demanded by Saleh are that his son be kept in the next government&#8221;.<br \/>Saleh left the country three months ago for Saudi Arabia where he has been recovering from a June 3 attack on his presidential compound.<br \/>The president has since January faced protests over nepotism and corruption from reform activists inspired by the Arab Spring.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 21 people have been killed and over 100 injured in fresh clashes on the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, a day after 26 anti-government protesters were shot dead and hundreds wounded by troops and gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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