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Arabia
2 Dead in Spreading Violence in Yemen
2011-05-13
[Yemen Post] At least two antigovernment protesters were killed and a dozen others injured when the security forces fired live bullets at thousands of people demanding an immediate ouster of the regime in Yemen's province of Baidha'a.

Witnesses said that at the protest, which coincided with the escalating protests faced with deadly crackdown in many cities, the people rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud condemning the killing of the protesters and calling for the resignation of President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
and opening trials for the officials responsible for crimes including the protester killings.

The demonstrators also tried to break into the provincial headquarters of the ruling party, the witnesses said, a day after at least 19 had been killed and thousands injured in some cities including the capital Sana'a.

Recently, the youth-led protesters at the month-long street sit-ins squares have started an escalation plan calling for marches on the presidential palaces across Yemen, at a time when the political parties are trading accusations over derailing the GCC West-backed power transition proposal.

The ruling and opposition parties officially accepted the GCC initiative and both sides should have finalized it last month.

Apart from the topic, independent sources said that festivities started between the tribes and the elite republican guard in Al-Haima Al-Kharigeyah, but the reason was not clear.
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