إعلان حالة الطوارئ بمحافظة الضالع بجنوب اليمن

27/02/2010 12:08:35



خدمة راديو بانيت -


أعلنت الهيئة الإدارية واللجنة الأمنية لمحافظة الضالع بجنوب اليمن السبت حالة الطواريء في المحافظة، وذلك بهدف منع التظاهرات والمسيرات.

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وجاء في بيان صادر عن الهيئتين " سيتم إغلاق كافة المنافذ والمداخل المؤدية للضالع الرئيسية والفرعية ومنع أي تظاهرات، أو مسيرات أو اعتصامات أو ما شابه غير مرخصة حسب النظام والقانون".
وتشهد محافظة الضالع منذ مارس / آذار 2006 أعنف مواجهات بين قوات الأمن ومحتجين يطالبون بانفصال جنوب اليمن عن شماله ،أدت إلى مئات القتلى والجرحى والمعتقلين. وكان من المقرر السبت تنظيم تظاهرات بالمحافظات الجنوبية تزامناً مع انعقاد مؤتمر المانحين بالرياض ،لمطالبة المؤتمرين بالانفصال عن الشمال اثر دعوات أطلقها الرئيس الجنوبي السابق على سالم البيض الخميس الماضي.
ودعا البيان المسؤولين في المحافظة إلى التأكد "من سير العمل بالشكل المطلوب دون غياب أو تهاون ". كما شمل القرار "منع الخارجين عن القانون من دخول المديرية". وتضمن القرار تحويل طريق المسافرين عبر طريق الضالع – عدن نحو طريق آخر "منعا لحدوث عمليات اعتداء تطال مسافرين وخاصة المنحدرين من المحافظات الشمالية". وأكدت الهيئتان أن القرار "اتخذ بعد أن أصبح من العيب السكوت على ممارسات تظهر عجز الدولة واستفحال أعمال الشغب، والخروج عن القانون بشكل استفزازي".

( لارسال مواد وصور لموقع بانيت – عنواننا [email protected] )

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Thousands rally for south Yemen independence
جمع الآلاف من أجل استقلال جنوب اليمن
خرج آلاف اليمنيين الى شوارع في المحافظات الثلاث لليوم الثاني على التوالي يوم الاحد للمطالبة باستقلال جنوب البلاد ، كما افاد شهود اعيان

احتجاجات في محافظات أبين والضالع ولحج أجريت بالتزامن مع اجتماع المانحين الدوليين في المملكة العربية السعودية لمساعدة هذا البلد في شبه الجزيرة العربية

" الآلاف من الرجال والنساء خرجوا في محافظة لحج يحملون صورا لنائب الرئيس السابق علي سالم البيض وأعلام الجنوب" ، حسب افادات شهود الاعيان

البيض ، الذي قاد الجنوب إلى الوحدة مع الشمال في عام 1990 ولكنه الآن وهو زعيم انفصالي كبير ، قد دعا يوم الجمعة الى "يومين من الغضب الجنوبي" ليتزامن مع اجتماع المانحين

وقال شهود ان الاحتجاجات يوم الاحد كانت سلمية ، ودون أي مواجهات واسعة مع قوات الامن التي انتشرت بكثافة في انحاء الجنوب.

لكن الشرطة اطلقت الغاز المسيل للدموع لتفريق المتظاهرين في مدينة الضالع و
أبين ثلاثة مدنيين اصيبوا بالرصاص يوم السبت عندما تحركت الشرطة لمنع المتظاهرين الى قطع الطريق بين العاصمة الاقليمية زنجبار وجنوب الرئيسي في مدينة عدن

اللواء غازي علي محسن ، مدير الامن في محافظة الضالع ، قال أن 21 "مثيري الشغب" اعتقلوا في الضالع.

"إن عناصر تخريبية كانت تنقل أسلحة والأعلام ويدعو" لانفصال الجنوب عن الشمال ، وقال محسن.

المظاهرات المؤيدة للاستقلال ، قد تضاعفت في جنوب اليمن الاشهر الاخيرة وسط تدهور الحالة الاقتصادية والشكاوى المتعلقة بالتمييز لصالح الشماليين من قبل حكومة صنعاء

جنوب اليمن كانت مستقلة من عام 1967 حتى عام 1990 ، عندما كان متحدا مع الشمال. الجنوب انفصلت في عام 1994 ، مما أدى الى نشوب صراع لم يدم طويلا والتي انتهت عندما الجنوب بعد اجتياحه من قبل القوات الشمالية

Thousands rally for south Yemen independencehttp://www.france24.com/en/20100228-...n-independence

South Yemen call for independence
ترجمة العنوان: جنوب اليمن يطالب بالاستقلال
http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems...30841580_5.jpgBrandishing flags from the old southern Yemeni republic, thousands took part in protests [AFP]Thousands have rallied across southern Yemen after an appeal from the last president of the independent south to re-establish the state that ceased to exist twenty years ago.
Ali Salem al-Baid, who led the south to unity with the north in 1990, called for a second day of "southern anger" on Saturday, to coincide with a meeting of international donors to Yemen in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
"I call on you ... to send a message to our Arab brothers and to the representatives of the international community gathered in Riyadh underlining your rejection of the occupation and your commitment to self-determination," Baid said.
"Our only weapon is our determination to recover our rights, whatever the cost ... we will succeed in regaining our independence."
Brandishing flags of the former south and of Saudi Arabia, crowds took to the streets in the major towns of the provinces of Dhaleh, Lahij, Abyan and Hadramawt.

Businesses in these areas remained closed for fear of clashes with security forces, witnesses and local officials said.
In Abyan, three civilians suffered bullet wounds when police moved to stop demonstrators cutting the highway between the provincial capital of Zinjibar and the south's main city, Aden, witnesses said.

'Yemeni occupation'
Tareq al-Fadhli, a prominent southern secessionist, called on demonstrators in the centre of Zinjibar "to continue your struggle until the south is freed from Yemeni occupation".
Fadhli, a former Islamist who rallied to the southern cause, promised "victory soon" over the Sanaa government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president.
Protesters also demonstrated in the town of Lauder further northeast, while in Dhaleh, thousands gathered in defiance of a curfew which had been imposed overnight.
In Lahej, thousands demonstrated in the towns of Hutah and Al-Habilain, and rallies were held in Mukallah, the main city of Hadramawt.
Pro-independence demonstrations have increased in the south in recent months amid a worsening economic situation and complaints of discrimination in favour of northerners by the Sanaa government.
Western governments have been pushing for a sharp increase in aid to Yemen to help Sanaa tackle multiple sources of dissent.

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28 February 2010 - 11H45


Thousands rally for south Yemen independence
ترجمة العنوان: تجمع الآلاف من أجل استقلال جنوب اليمن
http://www.france24.com/en/files/ima...739944-1-0.jpg Southern Yemeni women and girls hold pictures of former south Yemen leader Ali Salem al-Beidh during a protest in Radfan in Lahj province. Thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets of three provinces for a second successive day to demand the independence of the country's south


AFP - Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of three provinces for a second successive day on Sunday to demand the independence of the country's south, witnesses said.
The protests in Abyan, Daleh and Lahj provinces were conducted in tandem with a two-day international donors' meeting in neighbouring Saudi Arabia on aiding the Arabian peninsula country.
"Thousands of men and women went out in Lahj province carrying pictures of former vice president Ali Salem al-Bidh and southern flags," a witness said.
Bidh, who led the south to unity with the north in 1990 but is now a major separatist leader, had called on Friday for "two days of southern anger" to coincide with the donors' meeting.
Witnesses said the protests on Sunday were peaceful, without any major confrontations with security forces, which are heavily deployed across the south.
But police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the city of Daleh, witnesses said.
Three Abyan civilians suffered bullet wounds on Saturday when police moved to stop protestors cutting the highway between the provincial capital Zinjibar and the south's main city Aden, witnesses said.
General Ghazi Ali Mohsen, head of security in Daleh province, said 21 "rioters" were arrested in Daleh.
"The subversive elements were carrying weapons and flags and calling" for the secession of the south from the north, Mohsen said.
Pro-independence demonstrations have multiplied in the south in recent months amid a worsening economic situation and complaints of discrimination in favour of northerners by the Sanaa government.
South Yemen was independent from 1967 until 1990, when it united with the north. The south seceded in 1994, sparking a short-lived conflict that ended when the south was overrun by northern troops.
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Yemen arrests 21 suspected separatists
Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:51 AM

Yemeni forces detain separatists

Sunday, 28 February 2010 15:30
Security forces arrested 21 separatists trying to provoke rioting during demonstrations in a southern provincial capital as Yemen increased security to guard against attacks.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Dalea yesterday against earlier arrests, with some carrying the flag of the former South Yemen, which united with the North in 1990, residents and pro-southern websites said.
'The chief of security in Dalea said security forces were able to prevent and disperse a number of 'elements' attempting to cause chaos, riot, and who were chanting slogans aiming at spreading hatred and causing division,' the defence ministry said in its online newspaper today.
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Yemen, the poorest Arab country, struck a truce on 11 February with rebels who have been fighting over religious, economic, and social grievances in the north.
Yesterday it imposed tougher security measures in Dalea, where separatist tensions have been rising.
These included a ban on carrying weapons in public, two days after a policeman was shot dead in an ambush in a nearby province.
The policeman's death on Thursday brought to four the number of people killed in attacks on security personnel in the south in a week as authorities mounted arrest sweeps targeting separatists.
People in the south, home to most Yemeni oil facilities, complain that northerners have abused the 1990 agreement uniting the country to grab resources and discriminate against them.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0228/yemen.html

South Yemenis demand independence 28 Feb 2010 18:51http://www.einnews.com/graphics/logo/einnews.jpg

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Men in Habilain, Yemen, chewed qat, a mild narcotic, under a depiction of the flag of the formerly independent South Yemen. Under it was written “The South.”
By ROBERT F. WORTH

Published: February 27, 2010

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ADEN, Yemen — Less than an hour’s drive outside this dilapidated port town, the Yemeni government’s authority is scarcely visible, and a different flag appears, that of the old independent state of South Yemen.

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Signs of the legacy of British rule are visible around Aden.


The flags are one sign of a rapidly spreading protest movement across the south that now threatens to turn into a violent insurgency if its demands are not met. That could further destabilize Yemen, already the poorest and one of the most troubled countries in the Arab world, and create a broader haven for Al Qaeda here.
The movement’s leaders say the Yemeni government — based in the north — has systematically discriminated against the south, expropriating land, expelling southerners from their jobs and starving them of public money. They speak with deep nostalgia of the 128-year British occupation in South Yemen, saying the British, who withdrew in 1967, fostered the rule of law, tolerance and prosperity. The north, they say, respects only the gun.
In recent months, calls for secession have grown louder after a harsh government crackdown on demonstrations and opposition newspapers. The movement’s leaders say that they believe in peaceful protest, but that their ability to control younger and more violent supporters is fraying.
“It is too late for half measures or reforms,” said Zahra Saleh Abdullah, one of the few Southern Movement leaders who agreed to be identified in print. “We demand an independent southern republic, and we have the right to defend ourselves if they continue to kill us and imprison us.”
Another movement leader, sitting across the room, held up a coin minted under the British in 1964 and pointed to the words engraved on it: South Arabia.
“This is our true identity, not Yemen,” he said. “A southern republic or death.”
Public outrage swelled last month after Yemeni security forces laid siege to the house of a prominent newspaper editor in Aden, setting off a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire as the editor and his young children cowered inside. (The government said he was stockpiling weapons.) They were not injured, but the clash left at least one of the family’s guards dead and others wounded, fueling more demonstrations. All told, more than 100 people have been killed in clashes with the police since the movement began in 2007, its leaders say, and about 1,500 supporters remain in prison.
In some rural areas of South Yemen, police officers refuse to wear their uniforms for fear of being shot, according to several accounts from local residents.
The Yemeni government has largely dismissed the movement as a small band of malcontents and has repeatedly accused its leaders of being affiliated with Al Qaeda.
The movement’s leaders call that an outrageous perversion of the truth: they say that they stand for law, tolerance and democracy, and that it is the north that has a history of using jihadists as proxy warriors. But some human rights workers say a shared hatred of the government could be creating a sense of unity between some members of the movement — which is broad and very loosely organized — and members of Al Qaeda.
Perhaps a greater danger, some say, is the spread of lawlessness across the south if the movement’s demands for greater equity are not addressed and it grows more violent. The movement’s own internal contradictions also pose a real threat.
“There is no clear leadership, everyone wants to be the boss,” said Afra Khaled Hariri, a lawyer here who has represented arrested members of the movement. The movement’s leaders include socialists and Islamists with wildly different goals and unresolved disputes dating to internal conflicts between socialist factions that left thousands of southerners dead during the 1980s.
“If the movement succeeds in making a separate state, I expect disaster because of our bloody past,” Ms. Hariri said. And Aden — the heart of the British protectorate and the base of the south’s intelligentsia — would be the chief victim, she added.
For that reason, some in the south say, the best solution is not secession, but a political accommodation in which the north agrees to address some of the movement’s main grievances about land expropriation and job discrimination. Many also say that moving away from Yemen’s highly centralized system of government and granting the provinces more power to govern themselves would ease tensions.
So far the government has shown little sign it intends to do that.

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Thousands in South Yemen rally for independence



http://www.bt.com.bn/en/files/images...8/an0zq_c7.jpg Protesters shout anti-government slogans while holding up flags of former South Yemen and posters of its former president Ali Salem al-Beidh during a rally in the southern town of al-Habileen yesterday. Picture: Reuters



SANAA

Sunday, February 28, 2010
THOUSANDS rallied across south Yemen yesterday after an appeal from the last president of the independent south for them to send international donors a message they want their state back.

Ali Salem al-Baid, who led the south to unity with the north in 1990, called on Friday for "two days of southern anger" to coincide with a major Yemen donors' meeting in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

Brandishing flags of the former south and of Saudi Arabia, crowds took to the streets of the major towns of the provinces of Dhaleh, Lahij, Abyan and Hadramawt where businesses remained closed for fear of clashes with security forces, witnesses and local officials said.

In Abyan, three civilians suffered bullet wounds when police moved to stop demonstrators cutting the highway between the provincial capital Zinjibar and the south's main city Aden, witnesses said.

Southern Islamist leader Tareq al-Fadhli called on demonstrators in the centre of Zinjibar "to continue your struggle until the south is freed from Yemeni occupation."

Fadhli promised "victory soon" over the Sanaa government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Protestors also demonstrated in the town of Lauder further northeast, witnesses said.

In Dhaleh, thousands gathered in defiance of a curfew which had been imposed overnight. Police stopped only vehicle traffic from circulating, residents said.

In Lahej, thousands demonstrated in the towns of Hutah and Al-Habilain, and rallies were held in Mukallah, the main city of Hadramawt.

In his appeal from exile, the former southern leader had called for mass protests to coincide with the two-day meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, which gathers Yemen's wealthy Gulf neighbours and its other major donors.

"I call on you over the next two days to send a message to our Arab brothers and to the representatives of the international community gathered in Riyadh underlining your rejection of the occupation and your commitment to self-determination," Baid said.

"Our only weapon is our determination to recover our rights whatever the cost," he said, adding: "We will succeed in regaining our independence."

Pro-independence demonstrations have multiplied in the south in recent months amid a worsening economic situation and complaints of discrimination in favour of northerners by the Sanaa government. AFP
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Yemen arrests 21 in south, protests go on
28 Feb 2010 14:24:25 GMT
Source: Reuters

</SPAN> * Demonstrations across south for second day
* Protests coincide with donors meeting in Riyadh
* Security forces arrest 21 protesters in Dalea
(Updates with protests, previous DUBAI)
By Mohammed Mokhashaf
ADEN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Separatists demonstrated in southern Yemen on Sunday after security forces arrested 21 people accused of rioting, residents and officials said.
People travelling to Aden said demonstrations continued for a second day in the main southern city and in the provinces of Abyan and Dalea, also in the south of the poorest Arab country.
Demonstrators, some carrying the flag of the former South Yemen which united with the north in 1990, blocked the main road linking Aden with Dalea, they said.
Security forces arrested 21 people in the provincial capital of Dalea on Saturday as hundreds protested against earlier arrests, a Defence Ministry website said.
The protests were timed to coincide with a two-day meeting of Yemen donors in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Marchers and speakers at rallies called on the meeting to address the unresolved conflict in the south.
"The chief of security in Dalea said security forces were able to prevent and disperse a number of elements attempting to cause chaos, riot, and who were chanting slogans aimed at spreading hatred and causing division," the website said.
On Saturday, authorities imposed tougher security measures in Dalea, where separatist tensions have been rising. These included a ban on carrying weapons in public, two days after a policeman was shot dead in an ambush in a nearby province.
The policeman's death brought to four the number of people killed in attacks on security personnel in the south in a week as authorities mounted arrest sweeps targeting separatists.
People in the south, home to most Yemeni oil facilities, complain that northerners have abused the 1990 agreement uniting the country to grab resources and discriminate against them.
On Feb. 11, Yemen struck a truce with Shi'ite rebels in the north of the country who have been fighting over religious, economic and social grievances, a conflict that had drawn in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
Western nations and Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, fear al Qaeda is using the chaos in Yemen to recruit and train militants for attacks in the region and beyond.
The Yemeni arm of al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a failed attempt to bring down a U.S. airliner in December. (Additional reporting by Jason Benham in Dubai; Editing by Janet Lawrence)


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Boys dressed in flags of former South Yemen stand on the roof of a buliding during a rally in the southern city of Dalea February 28, 2010. Security forces arrested 21 separatists trying to provoke rioting during demonstrations in a southern provincial capital as Yemen increased security to guard against attacks, the government said on Sunday. REUTERS/Stringer (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Girl holds up AK-47 rifle as she takes part in protest in al-Habileen town in the southern Yemeni province of Lahj
28 Feb 2010

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A girl holds up an AK-47 rifle as she takes part in protest in al-Habileen town in the southern Yemeni province of Lahj February 28, 2010. Security forces arrested 21 separatists trying to provoke rioting during demonstrations in a southern provincial capital as Yemen increased security to guard against attacks, the government said on Sunday. REUTERS/Stringer (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Prostesters shout slogans during anti-government rally in Zinjibar city in the soutnern Yemeni province of Abyan
28 Feb 2010

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Protesters shout anti-government slogans and hold up flags of former South Yemen and posters of its former president Ali Salem al-Beidh as they take part in a rally in Zinjibar city in the soutnern Abyan province February 28, 2010. Security forces arrested 21 separatists trying to provoke rioting during demonstrations in a southern provincial capital as Yemen increased security to guard against attacks, the government said on Sunday. REUTERS/Stringer (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Protesters rally in the southern Yemeni town of al-Habileen
28 Feb 2010

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Protesters shout anti-government slogans as they hold up flags of former South Yemen and posters of its former president Ali Salem al-Beidh during a rally in the southern town of al-Habileen February 28, 2010. Security forces arrested 21 separatists trying to provoke rioting during demonstrations in a southern provincial capital as Yemen increased security to guard against attacks, the government said on Sunday. REUTERS/Stringer (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Yemeni separatist leader al-Fadhli and his sons wave to supporters during an anti-government rally in Zinjibar city in the southern Abyan province
28 Feb 2010

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Yemeni separatist leader Tariq al-Fadhli and his sons wave to supporters during an anti-government rally in Zinjibar city in the southern Abyan province February 28, 2010. Security forces arrested 21 separatists trying to provoke rioting during demonstrations in a southern provincial capital as Yemen increased security to guard against attacks, the government said on Sunday. REUTERS/Stringer (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Thousands rally across South Yemen for independence

Kuwait Times - 28 February, 2010
كويت تايمز: الالاف الجنوبيين يطالبون بالاستقلال

Thousands rallied across south Yemen yesterday after an appeal from the last president of the independent south for them to send international donors a message they want their state back. Ali Salem Al-Baid, who led the south to unity with the north in 1990, called on Friday for "two days of southern anger" to coincide with a major Yemen donors' meeting in neighboring Saudi Arabia. Brandishing flags of the former south and of Saudi Arabia, crowds took to the streets of the major towns of the province
s of Dhaleh, Lahij, Abyan and Hadramawt where businesses remained closed for fear of clashes with security forces, witnesses and local officials said.

In Abyan, three civilians suffered bullet wounds when police moved to stop demonstrators cutting the highway between the provincial capital Zinjibar and the south's main city Aden, witnesses said. Southern Islamist leader Tareq Al-Fadhli called on demonstrators in the centre of Zinjibar "to continue your struggle until the south is freed from Yemeni occupation." Fadhli, a former jihadist who rallied to the southern cause, promised "victory soon" over the Sanaa government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Pr
otestors also demonstrated in the town of Lauder further northeast, witnesses said.

In Dhaleh, thousands gathered in defiance of a curfew which had been imposed overnight. Police stopped only vehicle traffic from circulating, residents said. In Lahej, thousands demonstrated in the towns of Hutah and Al-Habilain, and rallies were held in Mukallah, the main city of Hadramawt. In his appeal from exile, the former southern leader had called for mass protests to coincide with the two-day meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, which gathers Yemen's wealthy Gulf neighbors and its other major donor
s.

I call on you over the next two days to send a message to our Arab brothers and to the representatives of the international community gathered in Riyadh underlining your rejection of the occupation and your commitment to self-determination," Baid said. "Our only weapon is our determination to recover our rights whatever the cost," he said, adding: "We will succeed in regaining our independence." Pro-independence demonstrations have multiplied in the south in recent months amid a worsening economic situati
on and complaints of discrimination in favor of northerners by the Sanaa government.

Western governments have been pushing for a sharp increase in aid to Yemen to help Sanaa tackle multiple sources of dissent. Zaidi Shiite rebels in the far north waged a seven-year uprising against government troops before a tenuous truce came into force on February 12. Yemen is also Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland and the West fears growing Islamic militancy.
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Thousands rally for south Yemen independence

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Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of three provinces for a second successive day on Sunday to demand the independence of the country's south, witnesses said.
The protests in Abyan, Daleh and Lahj provinces were conducted in tandem with a two-day international donors' meeting in neighbouring Saudi Arabia on aiding the Arabian peninsula country.
"Thousands of men and women went out in Lahj province carrying pictures of former vice president Ali Salem al-Bidh and southern flags," a witness said.
Bidh, who led the south to unity with the north in 1990 but is now a major separatist leader, had called on Friday for "two days of southern anger" to coincide with the donors' meeting.
Witnesses said the protests on Sunday were peaceful, without any major confrontations with security forces, which are heavily deployed across the south.
But police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the city of Daleh, witnesses said.
Three Abyan civilians suffered bullet wounds on Saturday when police moved to stop protestors cutting the highway between the provincial capital Zinjibar and the south's main city Aden, witnesses said.
General Ghazi Ali Mohsen, head of security in Daleh province, said 21 "rioters" were arrested in Daleh.
"The subversive elements were carrying weapons and flags and calling" for the secession of the south from the north, Mohsen said.
Pro-independence demonstrations have multiplied in the south in recent months amid a worsening economic situation and complaints of discrimination in favour of northerners by the Sanaa government.
South Yemen was independent from 1967 until 1990, when it united with the north. The south seceded in 1994, sparking a short-lived conflict that ended when the south was overrun by northern troops.
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Thousands rally for south Yemen independence: witnesses

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SANAA, Feb 28, 2010 (AFP) - Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of
three provinces for a second successive day on Sunday to demand the independence of the country's south, witnesses said.
The protests in Abyan, Daleh and Lahj provinces were conducted in tandem with a two-day international donors' meeting in neighbouring Saudi Arabia on aiding the Arabian peninsula country.
"Thousands of men and women went out in Lahj province carrying pictures of former vice president Ali Salem al-Bidh and southern flags," a witness said.
Bidh, who led the south to unity with the north in 1990 but is now a major separatist leader, had called on Friday for "two days of southern anger" to coincide with the donors' meeting.
Witnesses said the protests on Sunday were peaceful, without any major confrontations with security forces, which are heavily deployed across the south.
But police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the city of Daleh, witnesses said.
Three Abyan civilians suffered bullet wounds on Saturday when police moved to stop protestors cutting the highway between the provincial capital Zinjibar and the south's main city Aden, witnesses said.
General Ghazi Ali Mohsen, head of security in Daleh province, said 21 "rioters" were arrested in Daleh.
"The subversive elements were carrying weapons and flags and calling" for the secession of the south from the north, Mohsen said.
Pro-independence demonstrations have multiplied in the south in recent months amid a worsening economic situation and complaints of discrimination in favour of northerners by the Sanaa government.
South Yemen was independent from 1967 until 1990, when it united with the north. The south seceded in 1994, sparking a short-lived conflict that ended when the south was overrun by northern troops.
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Yemen arrests 21 in south

By Mohammed Mokhashaf
ADEN (Reuters) - Separatists demonstrated in southern Yemen on Sunday after security forces arrested 21 people accused of rioting, residents and officials said.

People travelling to Aden said demonstrations continued for a second day in the main southern city and in the provinces of Abyan and Dalea, also in the south of the poorest Arab country.

Demonstrators, some carrying the flag of the former South Yemen which united with the north in 1990, blocked the main road linking Aden with Dalea, they said.

Security forces arrested 21 people in the provincial capital of Dalea on Saturday as hundreds protested against earlier arrests, a Defence Ministry website said.

The protests were timed to coincide with a two-day meeting of Yemen donors in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Marchers and speakers at rallies called on the meeting to address the unresolved conflict in the south.

"The chief of security in Dalea said security forces were able to prevent and disperse a number of elements attempting to cause chaos, riot, and who were chanting slogans aimed at spreading hatred and causing division," the website said.

On Saturday, authorities imposed tougher security measures in Dalea, where separatist tensions have been rising. These included a ban on carrying weapons in public, two days after a policeman was shot dead in an ambush in a nearby province.

The policeman's death brought to four the number of people killed in attacks on security personnel in the south in a week as authorities mounted arrest sweeps targeting separatists.

People in the south, home to most Yemeni oil facilities, complain that northerners have abused the 1990 agreement uniting the country to grab resources and discriminate against them.

On February 11, Yemen struck a truce with Shi'ite rebels in the north of the country who have been fighting over religious, economic and social grievances, a conflict that had drawn in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

Western nations and Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, fear al Qaeda is using the chaos in Yemen to recruit and train militants for attacks in the region and beyond.

The Yemeni arm of al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a failed attempt to bring down a U.S. airliner in December.

(Additional reporting by Jason Benham in Dubai; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

South Yemen calls for independence

Thousands have rallied across southern Yemen after an appeal from the last president of the independent south to re-establish the state that ceased to exist twenty years ago.

Ali Salem al-Baid, who led the south to unity with the north in 1990, called for a second day of "southern anger" on Saturday, to coincide with a meeting of international donors to Yemen in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

"I call on you ... to send a message to our Arab brothers and to the representatives of the international community gathered in Riyadh underlining your rejection of the occupation and your commitment to self-determination," Baid said.

"Our only weapon is our determination to recover our rights, whatever the cost ... we will succeed in regaining our independence."

Brandishing flags of the former south and of Saudi Arabia, crowds took to the streets in the major towns of the provinces of Dhaleh, Lahij, Abyan and Hadramawt.

Businesses in these areas remained closed for fear of clashes with security forces, witnesses and local officials said.

In Abyan, three civilians suffered bullet wounds when police moved to stop demonstrators cutting the highway between the provincial capital of Zinjibar and the south's main city, Aden, witnesses said.

'Yemeni occupation'

Tareq al-Fadhli, a prominent southern secessionist, called on demonstrators in the centre of Zinjibar "to continue your struggle until the south is freed from Yemeni occupation".

Fadhli, a former Islamist who rallied to the southern cause, promised "victory soon" over the Sanaa government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president.

Protesters also demonstrated in the town of Lauder further northeast, while in Dhaleh, thousands gathered in defiance of a curfew which had been imposed overnight.

In Lahej, thousands demonstrated in the towns of Hutah and Al-Habilain, and rallies were held in Mukallah, the main city of Hadramawt.

Pro-independence demonstrations have increased in the south in recent months amid a worsening economic situation and complaints of discrimination in favour of northerners by the Sanaa government.

Western governments have been pushing for a sharp increase in aid to Yemen to help Sanaa tackle multiple sources of dissent.(1)

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http://l.yimg.com/t/ng/in/reuters_id...KRA3mlr7CbLg-- Enlarge Photo Protesters shout anti-government slogans and hold up flags of former South Yemen and posters of... Separatists demonstrated in southern Yemen on Sunday after security forces arrested 21 people accused of rioting, residents and officials said.
People travelling to Aden said demonstrations continued for a second day in the main southern city and in the provinces of Abyan and Dalea, also in the south of the poorest Arab country.
Demonstrators, some carrying the flag of the former South Yemen which united with the north in 1990, blocked the main road linking Aden with Dalea, they said.
Security forces arrested 21 people in the provincial capital of Dalea on Saturday as hundreds protested against earlier arrests, a Defence Ministry website said.
The protests were timed to coincide with a two-day meeting of Yemen donors in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Marchers and speakers at rallies called on the meeting to address the unresolved conflict in the south.
"The chief of security in Dalea said security forces were able to prevent and disperse a number of elements attempting to cause chaos, riot, and who were chanting slogans aimed at spreading hatred and causing division," the website said.
On Saturday, authorities imposed tougher security measures in Dalea, where separatist tensions have been rising. These included a ban on carrying weapons in public, two days after a policeman was shot dead in an ambush in a nearby province.
The policeman's death brought to four the number of people killed in attacks on security personnel in the south in a week as authorities mounted arrest sweeps targeting separatists.
People in the south, home to most Yemeni oil facilities, complain that northerners have abused the 1990 agreement uniting the country to grab resources and discriminate against them.
On Feb. 11, Yemen struck a truce with Shi'ite rebels in the north of the country who have been fighting over religious, economic and social grievances, a conflict that had drawn in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
Western nations and Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, fear al Qaeda is using the chaos in Yemen to recruit and train militants for attacks in the region and beyond.
The Yemeni arm of al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a failed attempt to bring down a U.S. airliner in December.
(Additional reporting by Jason Benham in Dubai; Editing by Janet Lawrence
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South Yemen Launches Intifada For Independence
By Aljazeera
28 February, 2010
Aljazeera
Yemeni security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse protesters in the southern city of Daleh, sources tell Al Jazeera.
Residents of three provinces -Abyan, Daleh and Lahij - took to the streets on Sunday for the second day in a row to press their demand for the independence of the country's south.
Witnesses said police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Daleh city.
The protests are taking place in tandem with a two-day international donors' meeting in neighbouring Saudi Arabia on aiding Yemen.
Ali Salem al-Baid, a politician who led the south to unity with the north in 1990, had called on Friday for "two days of southern anger".
General Ghazi Ali Mohsen, head of security in Daleh, said 21 "rioters" were arrested in the city.
"The subversive elements were carrying weapons and flags and calling" for the secession of the south from the north, he said.
Message to donors
In his speech calling for the two days of protests, Baid said: "I call on you ... to send a message to our Arab brothers and to the representatives of the international community gathered in Riyadh underlining your rejection of the occupation and your commitment to self-determination.
"Our only weapon is our determination to recover our rights, whatever the cost ... we will succeed in regaining our independence."
In response, crowds brandishing flags of the former south and of Saudi Arabia have been taking to the streets in the major towns of Daleh, Lahij, Abyan and Hadramaut.

Businesses in these areas remain closed for fear of clashes with security forces, witnesses and local officials say.
In Abyan, three civilians suffered bullet wounds when police moved to stop demonstrators cutting the highway between the provincial capital of Zinjibar and the south's main city, Aden, witnesses said.
Tareq al-Fadhli, a prominent southern secessionist, called on demonstrators in the centre of Zinjibar "to continue your struggle until the south is freed from Yemeni occupation".
Fadhli, a former Islamist who rallied to the southern cause, promised "victory soon" over the Sanaa government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president.
In Lahij, thousands demonstrated in the towns of Hutah and al-Habilain, and rallies were held in Mukallah, the main city of Hadramaut.
Pro-independence demonstrations have increased in the south in recent months amid a worsening economic situation and complaints of discrimination in favour of northerners by the Sanaa government.
Western governments have been pushing for a sharp increase in aid to Yemen to help Sanaa tackle multiple sources of dissent.
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اعتقال 21 شخص في الجنوب
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Yemeni separatist leader al-Fadhli and his sons wave to supporters during an anti-government rally in Zinjibar city in the southern Abyan province


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By Mohammed Mokhashaf
ADEN (Reuters) - Separatists demonstrated in southern Yemen on Sunday after security forces arrested 21 people accused of rioting, residents and officials said.
People traveling to Aden said demonstrations continued for a second day in the main southern city and in the provinces of Abyan and Dalea, also in the south of the poorest Arab country.
Demonstrators, some carrying the flag of the former South Yemen which united with the north in 1990, blocked the main road linking Aden with Dalea, they said.
Security forces arrested 21 people in the provincial capital of Dalea on Saturday as hundreds protested against earlier arrests, a Defense Ministry website said.
The protests were timed to coincide with a two-day meeting of Yemen donors in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Marchers and speakers at rallies called on the meeting to address the unresolved conflict in the south.
"The chief of security in Dalea said security forces were able to prevent and disperse a number of elements attempting to cause chaos, riot, and who were chanting slogans aimed at spreading hatred and causing division," the website said.
On Saturday, authorities imposed tougher security measures in Dalea, where separatist tensions have been rising. These included a ban on carrying weapons in public, two days after a policeman was shot dead in an ambush in a nearby province.
The policeman's death brought to four the number of people killed in attacks on security personnel in the south in a week as authorities mounted arrest sweeps targeting separatists.
People in the south, home to most Yemeni oil facilities, complain that northerners have abused the 1990 agreement uniting the country to grab resources and discriminate against them.
On February 11, Yemen struck a truce with Shi'ite rebels in the north of the country who have been fighting over religious, economic and social grievances, a conflict that had drawn in neighboring Saudi Arabia.
Western nations and Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, fear al Qaeda is using the chaos in Yemen to recruit and train militants for attacks in the region and beyond.
The Yemeni arm of al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a failed attempt to bring down a U.S. airliner in December.
(Additional reporting by Jason Benham in Dubai; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
© Copyright 2010, Reuters

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Yemeni separatist leader Tariq al-Fadhli and his sons wave to supporters during an anti-government rally in Zinjibar city in the southern Abyan province February 28, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer (Reuters)
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28/02/2010




مقتل مدير مكتب الزراعة
ثلاثة جرحى في تظاهرات الجنوب اليمني الداعية للانفصال



صنعاء-اف ب، كونا- تظاهر آلاف الاشخاص امس مطالبين بانفصال جنوب اليمن حيث اصيب ثلاثة اشخاص بجروح في مواجهات مع الشرطة ..بينما قتل مسؤول محلي في اشتباك مسلح.
وسار المتظاهرون رافعين اعلام جمهورية جنوب اليمن سابقا واخرى خضراء، في محافظات الضالع ولحج وابين وحضرموت (جنوب) حيث اغلقت المتاجر ابوابها تخوفا من اعمال العنف، قبل ان يتفرقوا عصرا.
وكثرت التظاهرات المطالبة بانفصال جنوب اليمن الذي كان قبل 1990 يشكل دولة مستقلة،خلال الاشهرالاخيرة، لان سكانه يعتبرون انهم ضحايا اجحاف وانهم لا يستفيدون من مساعدة اقتصادية كافية.
نداء علي سالم البيض
وجرت تظاهرة امس غداة نداء دعا فيه رئيس جنوب اليمن سابقا علي سالم البيض من منفاه، سكان الجنوب الى «يومي غضب جنوبي» بمناسبة انعقاد اجتماع مانحي اليمن السبت والاحد في السعودية.وقال «انتم مدعوون في هذين اليومين لتوجيه رسالة الى الاشقاء العرب وممثلي المجتمع الدولي المجتمعين في الرياض تعيدون فيها التأكيد على رفضكم للاحتلال وعلى تمسككم بحقكم في تقرير مصيركم».
واضاف ان «صدى هذه الرسالة سيكون كبيرا ومعبرا (...) انني اهيب باهلنا في الجنوب (...) ان يؤكدوا لحكام صنعاء من خلال وحدتهم الجنوبية انهم متمسكون حتى الرمق الاخير باستعادة دولتهم وعاصمتها عدن».
وفي الضالع على بعد مائة كلم شمال عدن كبرى مدن الجنوب، تجمع آلاف الاشخاص سلميا رغم حظر التجول. وافاد بعض السكان ان بعض السيارات فقط منعت من الدخول او السير في الضالع.

الفضلي: مواصلة النضال
وفي محافظة ابين سار المتظاهرون في كبرى شوارع زنجبار. ودعا القيادي في الحراك الجنوبي طارق الفضلي في كلمة القاها امام المتظاهرين الجنوبيين الى «مواصلة النضال حتى تحرير الجنوب من الاحتلال، وبشرهم بنصر قريب على نظام الرئيس علي عبد الله صالح».
وجرح ثلاثة مدنيين برصاص الشرطة التي فرقت مجموعة من المتظاهرين حاولت قطع الطريق بين زنجبار وعدن كما افاد شهود.
كذلك تظاهر آلاف الاشخاص في مناطق اخرى من محافظة لحج.

وفاة مدير مكتب الزراعة
الى ذلك، توفي امس مدير مكتب الزراعة بمديرية الأزارق في محافظة الضالع متأثرا بجراحه التي أصيب بها في كمين نصبه مجهولون الجمعة قبل الماضية وقتل فيه مدير مباحث مديرية الضالع.
وقال مصدر امني لوكالة الانباء الكويتية ان مدير مكتب الزراعة توفي في أحد مستشفيات عدن حيث كان يرقد هناك في غيبوبة منذ اصابته بأكثر من سبع طلقات نارية في الرأس والرقبة في الكمين الذي قامت به عناصر تابعة للحراك
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صحيفة الجريدة..مانحي اليمن يُختَتم من دون مقررات ملموسة