Republican Guards bomb protesters in Taiz

29/6/2011 - Sahwa Net

Sahwa Net- Republican Guards renewed on Tuesday bombing protesters in Taiz, using tanks , artillery and mortars.

 

Correspondent of Sahwa Net in Taiz said that the Republican Guards has withdrawn its forces in conjunction with the arrival of a UN fact-finding team to Taiz on Sundayt, but the forces deployed once again on Monday.

 

Meanwhile the Republican Guards have continued heavy attacks on some villages in Arhab and Nihm, outskirts of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, local sources told Sahwa Net. 

 

The Republican Guard used all sorts of heavy and medium weapons, focusing severely on a house of a Yemeni opposition leader, Mansour Al-Haniq.

 

He said that a number of casualties fallen down, but there were no precise statistics about that, pointing out that three students were among the wounded persons.

 

Yemen opposition alliance, the Joint Meeting Parties, has cautioned the Yemeni regime against committing crimes against Yemeni people.

 

In a press statement, JMP accused the Yemeni regime of punishing the Yemeni people through provoking economic crises, blockading roads, surrounding cities, breaking down electricity and   cutting supplies of oil derivatives.

 

JMP intensively denounced committing mass crimes with the aim of punishing those people who have been asking President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

 

Massive crowds of Yemenis have been taking to the streets across various Yemeni cities demanding the son of the wounded president leave the country and forming a transitional ruling council.