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| Violence mars NDC opening session |
| 2013-03-19 |
| [Yemen Post] Security officials confirmed on Monday a protester in the southern city of Tarim, in the province of Hadhramawt was shot dead by the police in clashes opposing the authorities and Haraki militants (Southern Secessionist Movement). On the very same day as the NDC first ever session, separatist militants staged a series of demonstrations throughout the southern provinces, calling their supporters to join their civil disobedience movement against the central government. Activist Fuad Rashid from Tarim told the press he witnessed the police shooting at protesters. "The protester was killed by police gunfire during clashes with demonstrators protesting against the dialogue." In Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadhramawt, a hot bed for secessionists, residents reported gun fires and commotion as protesters came to oppose the security forces. Sources said several activists were subsequently arrested. In Aden, former capital of South Yemen, Harakis hardliners came out in their thousands, defying President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi calls for calm and restraint. In al-Arood square in Khormaksar, a district of the city not to far from Crater, one of al-Hark main rallying point in the city was turned into a secessionist camp where hundreds of protesters decided to stay over night ahead of the demonstration. Waving portraits of former South Yemen President Ali Salem al-Baidh and Hassan Baoun, a radical leader of al-Harak, protesters chanted "No to dialogue, yes to independence." |
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