Official death tolls have varied wildly today, but as violence erupted across Yemen and a massive crackdown on protesters was launched in the capital city of Sanaa, indications are that at least 70 people were slain.
This included security forces bulldozing protest tents in Sanaa and reports of sporadic gunfire and massive explosions across the city. The Saleh regime lost a number of government buildings in Sanaa last week to pro-protester tribal forces, but later chased them off.
But the tribes are still looming over the city, with a growing number of the formidable factions joining pro-democracy protesters in demanding Saleh’s ouster. Saleh has repeatedly ruled out leaving office. The tribes remain on the march.
Meanwhile, pro-regime warplanes also launched a series of air strikes against the city of Zinjibar. The city was lost over the weekend, reportedly to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Does any one knows what are the meaning of Yemeni tribes joining the democratic movment engulfing Yemen today??It is the breaking of a new dawn long awaited by the yemeni people.Saleh has fought hard to keep Yemen close to modern times through strenthening tribal system with close loyalties making the state a tribe of all tribes.Now after 33years of corruption and degenerating policies resulting in total state of chaos, people have finally descided to cry enough is enough and chose to force Saleh's regime out of power in a peacefull way.Young Yemenis ,being the core of the revolt have suffered tremendious loses by Saleh's thugs and his military guardes.Taiz a rather peacefull city and home of intellectual Yemenis,has been devasated by Saleh' wrath, with over 70 young yemenis either burned to death or directly shot to death by thugs and Saleh's military officers,among them 12 cases of special need who were burned in their tents. Wake up world to the madness of tyrants and the bravery youths with strong resolute to fight for their freedom to the end.
Where are the no-fly zones to protect civilians? Oh…that's right. Yemen already has a US puppet in power and no oil. Never mind.