Clashes amid southern Yemen strike

[IndianaGreen]

Source: Al Jazeera


The Southern Movement is calling for the south of
Yemen to secede from the north (Reuters)

Clashes amid southern Yemen strike

UPDATED ON:
Sunday, January 10, 2010
14:30 Mecca time, 11:30 GMT

Residents in the south of Yemen have staged a general strike to protest government policy and claims of oppression.

A security official on Sunday said three policemen had been wounded in clashes related to the strike.

In the provinces of Dhale, Lahaj, Shabwa and Abyan, all shops were shut and transportation halted for six hours.

Witnesses said the clashes broke out in the city of Dhale, 22km south of the capital, Sanaa, when security forces tried to force shopowners to open the doors of their stores.

Other witnesses said armed men had opened fire on police.

A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the policemen had been injured by members of the southern separatist movement.

"The three policemen were wounded in Dhale city. The three assailants are known to us and security forces are chasing them," he told the AFP newsagency.

'Act of disobedience'

Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall, reporting from Sanaa, said the strike had been called by the Southern Movement as an "act of disobedience" in protest of the government not responding to their demands.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/2010110105244977634.html

[BunkerHill24]

1. "clashes broke out when security forces tried to force shopowners to open the doors of their stores"

What on earth is going on over there?

[IndianaGreen]

2. The Saleh dictatorship is trying to put down the general strike

Saleh makes Karzai look like a New York City liberal.