Sana'a. .- A protester was killed and another wounded when police fired on hundreds of people protesting against the Yemeni regime in the port city of Aden in southern Yemen, said a medical source. The fatality is a 17-year-old was shot in the head, told Efe a hospital source in the neighborhood of Sheikh Othman in Aden.
Witnesses to the incident said hundreds of protesters burned tires and erected barricades in the streets of the neighborhood before being dispersed by police who opened fire and threw tear gas. Also in the Yemeni capital, thousands of opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh today gathered around the University of Sana'a.
The opposition parties had announced that mobilized their supporters to join the protests on this site, the scene of demonstrations in recent days. These protests came despite the fact that today the Yemeni president reiterated his invitation to the opposition to participate in a dialogue with the ruling party and expressed his willingness to meet the demands of the opposition.
"We have already invited to converse and sit at the negotiating table and are ready to meet their demands, if they are legitimate," Saleh said in a speech before thousands of supporters in Sana'a. The pressure of the opposition groups forced the president last day 2 to commit to freezing the constitutional reforms that would make for not limiting the number of presidential mandates and open a dialogue with the opposition.
Clashes between protesters and security forces in Aden today are not the first to be recorded in this city, where last Friday there was at least three people in a protest in which thousands of people calling for political reform and the fall of president. Yemen, like other countries in the region, scene of numerous political protests, which escalated from 12 February, a day after the resignation of then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. 
Witnesses to the incident said hundreds of protesters burned tires and erected barricades in the streets of the neighborhood before being dispersed by police who opened fire and threw tear gas. Also in the Yemeni capital, thousands of opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh today gathered around the University of Sana'a.
The opposition parties had announced that mobilized their supporters to join the protests on this site, the scene of demonstrations in recent days. These protests came despite the fact that today the Yemeni president reiterated his invitation to the opposition to participate in a dialogue with the ruling party and expressed his willingness to meet the demands of the opposition.
"We have already invited to converse and sit at the negotiating table and are ready to meet their demands, if they are legitimate," Saleh said in a speech before thousands of supporters in Sana'a. The pressure of the opposition groups forced the president last day 2 to commit to freezing the constitutional reforms that would make for not limiting the number of presidential mandates and open a dialogue with the opposition.
Clashes between protesters and security forces in Aden today are not the first to be recorded in this city, where last Friday there was at least three people in a protest in which thousands of people calling for political reform and the fall of president. Yemen, like other countries in the region, scene of numerous political protests, which escalated from 12 February, a day after the resignation of then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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- Why Yemen's youths are not bowing to government pressure, violence - Christian Science Monitor (21/02/2011)
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- Yemen complex and unpredictable - ABC Online (22/02/2011)
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