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Clashes between Southern Movement followers and security forces in Hadramout
2012-02-07
[Yemen Post] Clashes broke out between security force and Southern Movement followers on Sunday in the southeastern Yemeni province of Hadramout, leaving a protester killed and 5 others maimed.

Security forces removed a tent set up by the Southern Movement protesters, who call for boycotting the upcoming presidential election, in Al-Mokalla, the scenic provincial capital of Hadramout, but the protesters tried to hold them back, resulting in festivities between the two sides.

Security forces shot one killed and maimed 5 others in the festivities, eyewitnesses and medics said.

Angry about removing their tent, which was set up in the middle of a main road, Separation supporters broke into a cop shoppe and forcibly released their captured friends.

A lot of indigenous people took to streets, cut off the roads and closed shops to protest against the killing of their fellow protester, Majed al-Hamdi, who died in a local hospital a couple of hours after being shot in the head, according to eyewitnesses.

Separation or Southern Movement refused to be involved in signing the GCC-drawn deal as they refuse to remain part of the unified Yemen. They demand to secede from Yemen and have their own southern independent state.
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