Demonstrations and labour strikes escalated throughout the Yemen on Wednesday, leaving at least 12 people dead on one of the most violent days of the country in a month, then even the opposition and representatives of the Government have been towards an agreement to inaugurate the Office President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a month.
Local doctors, said that at least 10 demonstrators Sana, the capital, were killed when armed supporters of the Government attacked a protest against the agreement of resignation by the Gulf Cooperation Council. The demonstrators walk to the building of the Yemen TV belonging to the State when they were attacked near a major stage where there is a pro-Government protest camp small. According to witnesses, the battle lasted about an hour and several cars burned, although it was difficult to see who they were set on fire.
"" We organized a March of the Hasaba television station, and people of the stadium began firing live bullets, said Adel al-Suraby, a student leader of the protest. "."While they began to draw again from Al Iman University. It was a very large walk in response to the c.c.g. initiative because we refuse it. ?
Wednesday was the deadliest day in the capital since 52 demonstrators were killed on March 18.
Meanwhile, two people, a protester and a soldier, were killed in the South of the port of Aden on Wednesday morning when a conflict broke out between demonstrators and security forces, doctors said.
A number of provincial capitals held general strikes as part of civil disobedience to maintain pressure on the Government of Mr. Saleh.
"It is important to put pressure in peaceful protest against our requests such as youth, said Hussein al-Suleily, 28, a leader of protest in the Centre of the city of Taiz." "" This is part of our Pacific method. Yet, the regime continues to use violence against us. It is a series of violence that has only intensified by the 80 days of demonstrations. ?
"It is a youth revolution, political not a crisis," he added while mentioning that youth in Taiz rejects the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council, that the parties to the power of the Yemen and opposition officials have now accepted. The proposal would grant the President and his family immunity from prosecution, only a point vehemently rejected by many young leaders of protest and of the human rights of groups.
It about a month ago residents in Aden, which has a history of civil disobedience, that extends from long before the current uprising by its separatist movement in the South, has begun to close their shops and not to go to work every Wednesday and Saturday.
"It is total civil disobedience, said a local journalist who did not want his name used for fear of reprisals that." "" All the shops were closed. The closure of all offices of the Government. "Demonstrators blocked all the roads."
He added that there was also a southern separatist protest in two districts of the city to mark the date where the North declared war to Yemen of the South in 1994. Thousands walk, he said.
A Government spokesman, said that step of all government offices were closed in Aden, but he declined to comment further on the issue.
Regular strikes have also taken off in Taiz, where residents say about half of the stores are closed every day. Stores are closed in cities including Ibb, Mukalla and Ataq Beidha thus Wednesday and Saturday a few hours in the morning. But in Sana, one of the most of the regions of the country, pro-Saleh demonstrators say that a general strike would be more difficult.
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