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Africa North
UNICEF says 26 children killed in Yemen protests
2011-04-20
[Arab News] The UN children's fund says 26 children have been killed during violent protests in Yemen over the last two months.
What kind of parents bring children to violent protests instead of finding a babysitter?
UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said Tuesday that most of the children killed in festivities between security forces and anti-government demonstrators died of wounds from live ammunition.

Opposition groups in Yemen have staged a series of protests demanding the ouster of longtime President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ...
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