The military coup against Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has sparked a wave of anger in Yemen. Thousands of Morsi-supporters have rallied in the streets of the Yemeni capital Sana’a to show their support to the ousted president of Egypt. Protesters condemned Morsi’s ouster from power and called for his immediate reinstatement. Yemeni female protesters also joined the pro-Morsi demonstration. This protester believes that Saudi Arabia assisted the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi with hopes of securing its regime.
Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a rally in Sana’a, Yemen. (File photo)
Thousands of Houthi demonstrators have once again taken to the streets in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a to condemn the killing of more than a dozen of Shia Muslims by government forces, Press TV reports.
The protesters chanted on Thursday slogans in condemnation of Yemen’s National Security Intelligence Agency, calling for the suspension of the activities of the agency.
“The nation wants the dismantling of the National Security Intelligence Agency!” they shouted.
The demonstrators also called on the country’s authorities to prosecute those responsible for the latest murders of Houthi protesters.
On Sunday, a large number of the protesters gathered outside Yemen’s National Security Intelligence Agency headquarters in Sana’a under a rally called “Loyalty to the Blood of Our Martyrs.”
On June 9, Yemeni forces killed 13 Shia Houthi protesters and wounded 100 others during a demonstration outside the agency’s headquarters.
Human Rights Watch has demanded an investigation into the killings.
Yemen’s Zaidi population, also known as Houthis, have long been protesting about oppression and discrimination by Yemen’s Saudi-backed government.
Yemen’s Shia Houthi movement draws its name from the tribe of its founding leader Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi.
“The revolution will continue” was the chant which thundered the streets of the Yemeni capital on Thursday, as thousands of angry youth revolutionaries voiced their disapproval of allowing their revolution to fall short in meeting all their demands.
Although the revolution succeeded in ousting former long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh, these protesters say they still got a long way to go before they can declare their revolution a success, as much of their demands remain unmet, two years after the uprising began.
Protesters also condemned the increasing presence of military checkpoints and armored vehicles in the capital Sana’a which they say has raised fear among residence.
Yemen’s opposition held a a sit-in in-front of President Mansour Hadi’s compound in the sixty square of the Yemeni Capital, demanding the army reconstruction and the removal of all remaining remnants of the previous regime.
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Al-Hadi the president of Yemen was elected in Feb after being the only name on the ballot. This is a political struggle not just some strife between religious tribes as the West likes orientalize it. .
“I don’t really agree that this is a conflict between Islamic militants versus the government. Yemen was just unified in 1990; they had a civil war in 1994. South Yemen has had its accession movement since 2007, and it wasn’t about religion or ethnicities, it was about resources. The majority of the oil is on that side of the country, although the majority of the profits have been allocated to the north. These are monetary issues. It has become more of a religious issue because of the press and because the US policy of killing civilians drives people in that direction. They don’t even have to see eye to eye ideologically, they just have a common enemy. “
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