October 13, 2007
Alert: Three Protesters Killed in South Yemen
Three killed and ten injured in South Yemen when Yemeni security forces open fire on a crowd
Dispatch from Yemen, Saturday, October 13, 2007
A large demonstration is scheduled for tomorrow in South Yemen, where protests have been growing since May 2007. Today Yemen's Central Security Forces descended on the main square that is the designated location for the demonstration and opened fire on protesters who had gathered in advance. The public gathering is being held to commemorate the revolution of October 14 in the city of Alhabaylin in Rdvan.
The security forces tried to evict citizens from the square where the protesters had been having a sit-in for more than a week, but the protesters refused to leave their places. The security forces opened fire into the crowd, killing three and wounding ten. Some are in a critical condition.
The massive demonstration scheduled for tomorrow is in protest of the Yemeni regime's brutal and institutionalized discrimination against residents of the former South Yemen after the 1994 civil war. The military has been deployed in advance of tomorrow's demonstration including a large number of tanks.
Names of the people who were killed:
Shafiq Haitham Hassan
Mohammed Nasser Haitham Alhalmi
Abdel Nasser Kassem Hamadi,
The wounded are:
Thabet Nasser Mohammed
Haitham Mohamed Saleh
Haitham Mohamed Cmsan
Said Muthanna Naji
Gran Nasser Mohammed
Saad Nasser Nasser
Thabet Mohamed Dkic
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Zaid Abdul Illah Muzahim
Fahmi Mohammed Hussein
Muhammad Ahmad Khomeini
Hussein Bin Hussein
Abdel Bari firm
Mohsen Abdel-Hamid Rajeh
Atef Haitham Nasser
That citizens took over the podium in advance of the demonstration that is scheduled for tomorrow.
