North Yemen Tribesmen Kill Four Soldiers Over Protest Shootings
Another Tribal Leader Slain in Protests the Following Day
Violent crackdowns by the Yemeni government have continued for weeks as protests continue to grow, but they got their first major violent backlash on Monday night, when tribesmen stormed a security forces building in the Jawf Province.
The tribesmen were said to be angry at the troops having opened fire on protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s ouster, and they killed four Yemeni soldiers before they left the scene.
The backlash appears not to have affected the regime’s anti-protest tactics, however, as the following morning it was reported that tribal leader Naji Nasm, who was attending a protest in the Jawf Province, was shot and killed when the soldiers opened fire on the crowd.
Dozens of protesters have been killed and thousands wounded in the daily protests in Sanaa and elsewhere across Yemen. President Saleh has ruled out stepping down early, but has promised not to run for reelection in the next vote.
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Bianca
March 16th, 2011 at 10:59 am
This regime can kill any and all of its population, for as long as the human rights loving West supports him. But in Yemen, people are armed to teeth. The more he resorts to force, the more clearly individual feudal regions will resist, and eventually wrest control from the central government. The army may abandon the regime, as idividuals may find it safer to be with their own kin. Nothing could be better for Yemen then to decentralize. This would be the end of Al-qaeda, as its only recruiting attraction is the oppresion of the regime. But it seems that West is not capable of dealing with such decentralized entities, and needs a strongmen in charge. What a mistake. Let South go, and decentralize the rest. Radicalizing would be over, as nothing is more efficient then the local governance in preventing external influence in its affairs.