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Yemeni gunmen shoot five dead after president agrees to step down


November 24, 2011 - Pro-government gunmen shot five people dead in the Yemeni capital on Thursday, a day after the president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, signed a deal agreeing to end his 33-year rule in exchange for immunity from prosecution. The bloodshed coincided with a bout of fierce clashes between youth activists and opposition leaders, casting doubt over whether the US-backed transition plan signed on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia would succeed in easing tensions in the country. A brief spell of jubilation gave way to fury on Thursday as thousands of young men and women stormed past government buildings stamping their feet and shouting, "The revolution continues" and, "No immunity for the murderers"...



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Yemeni gunmen shoot five dead after president agrees to step down

Tom Finn in Sana'a

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Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Photograph: Hani Mohammed/AP

November 24, 2011

Jubilation following Ali Abdullah Saleh's resignation gives way to fury as protesters are attacked and anti-Saleh camp splits

Pro-government gunmen shot five people dead in the Yemeni capital on Thursday, a day after the president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, signed a deal agreeing to end his 33-year rule in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

The bloodshed coincided with a bout of fierce clashes between youth activists and opposition leaders, casting doubt over whether the US-backed transition plan signed on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia would succeed in easing tensions in the country.

A brief spell of jubilation gave way to fury on Thursday as thousands of young men and women stormed past government buildings stamping their feet and shouting, "The revolution continues" and, "No immunity for the murderers".

Witnesses said that as the crowd neared the foreign ministry a group of gunmen dressed in traditional Yemeni garb flung rocks and fired automatic weapons directly at the demonstrators. Among the dozens laid out on blood-soaked stretchers in a nearby field hospital was a six-year-old boy named Abuldrahman, his head split open by a stray rock.

Saleh, who is currently in Saudi Arabia as a guest of the king, "condemned the violence that left casualties today in the capital Sana'a" and ordered the ministry of interior to "carry out an immediate and full investigation and to bring those responsible for this crime to justice, whatever party they belong to", the Saba state news agency reported.

With the president currently out of the picture and no common enemy to rally against, cracks are emerging within the anti-Saleh camp. A rift has developed between Yemen's formal opposition, dominated by the highly organised Islamist Islah party, and a group that refers to itself as the "independent youth" which is demanding that Saleh be put on trial and his family removed from positions of power.

Speakers from the Islah party, members of which countersigned the deal in Riyadh on Wednesday, were forced to flee for cover in Change Square after a group of youth activists launched a co-ordinated attack on the main stage, pelting it with stones, eggs and plastic bottles and shouting: "Our stage, our revolution, down with the opposition!" Fistfights and shouting matches raged on throughout the morning as the two sides fought for control of the microphone.

"We will not allow our revolution to be hijacked. The parties should leave the square," said Sami Atfari a 22-year-old English student, shoving a middle-aged opposition politician who had told protesters that "the youth should work with the parties, not against them".

Yemenis are waiting nervously to see how Saleh's chief rivals, Major General Ali Mohsen, who defected from the army, and the powerful Ahmar clan respond to the violence. For months the sandbagged streets of downtown Sana'a have witnessed running street battles as the Republican Guard — an elite force headed by Saleh's son Ahmed – battle with the well-armed supporters of the general and the Ahmars, who lead the country's most powerful tribal federation. "A further attack on protesters may reignite the fighting," said Mohammed al-Qahtan, a spokesmen for the JMP.

It was still unclear when, or if, Saleh, who still retains the honorary title of president, intends to return to Yemen. A government official speaking on condition of anonymity told the Guardian that Saleh plans to travel to New York for further medical treatment for chest injuries sustained in a June assassination attempt but declined to comment on when or if he would return to Yemen. Saleh's son and three nephews still retain powerful posts in the military and intelligence service.

There was been no word from the vice-president, Abd al-Rabb Mansour al-Hadi, who will oversee the formation of a national unity government and military commission to restructure the country's fractured armed forces in preparation for elections in three months. For years a politically weak figure, Hadi, now endowed with presidential powers, is widely tipped to be the only candidate in the upcoming presidential elections. Both the opposition and the ruling party are expected to make bids for him as their candidate.

Meanwhile, protest leaders from the co-ordinating council at Change Square said on Thursday that they were planning to burn their electoral ID cards and would refuse to vote in any elections until all of Saleh's family had been removed from power.



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