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TAIZ,
Yemen (Reuters) - Forces loyal to outgoing Yemeni President Ali
Abdullah Saleh shot dead a woman in a protest march in Taiz on Monday,
witnesses and activists said, despite tanks withdrawing under a
ceasefire pact.
Anti-Saleh tribesmen brandishing Kalashnikov rifles and members of
the Republican Guard, led by Saleh's son Ahmed, were still on many of
Taiz's streets, witnesses said.
Tanks, armored vehicles and opposition fighters left some areas of
Taiz, a hub of 10 months of unrest against Saleh's 33-year rule, but
gunmen and snipers remained and had fired on demonstrators, witnesses
said.
"Both sides violated the ceasefire agreement. We were marching
peacefully and they (Saleh's forces) shot at us yet again," medical
student Hamoud al-Aklamy told Reuters.
Both sides had pulled out of parts of the city on the orders of a
committee of lawmakers, set up by acting head of state Vice President
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi this weekend, to try to end fighting that has
killed at least 20 since Thursday.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the centre of Taiz, some 200
km (120 miles) south of the capital Sanaa, to protest against attacks on
peaceful protesters.
At least eight people in the anti-Saleh march were injured by gunmen
seen shooting from rooftops, including a 20-year-old woman who died at a
hospital after she was shot in the chest, doctors said.
Elsewhere in the country's south, government forces on Monday shelled
sites held by Islamist militants near Zinjibar, killing four of them, a
local official said.
The official said the shelling came after the militants ambushed
pro-government tribal fighters and wounded two of them. Islamist
militants have seized three cities in Yemen's south since March,
including Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province.
The attempts to end clashes in Taiz came less than two weeks after
Saleh signed a deal to hand over power to his deputy as part of a Gulf
initiative by Yemen's wealthy Arab neighbors to end protests there.
The United States has been worried that the protests, which have
weakened central government control in Yemen, could allow al Qaeda to
take advantage of the security vacuum and threaten the world's number
one oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, next door.
Activists blamed Monday's attacks on Saleh, who they say was
determined to assert his control over the army despite the accord that
made him a ceremonial president with no real powers.
"Saleh said he transferred his authority to the vice president, but
this is a game. We won't have a new government until half of Taiz is
dead," said Aklamy.
Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Basindwa, an opposition leader who
is to form a unity government with Saleh's General People's Congress
party, has said he would rethink his commitments under the deal if
fighting in Taiz did not stop.
Although the violence had eased since Sunday, witnesses heard at least six explosions in the city on Monday.
Political crisis has frequently halted the modest oil exports Yemen
uses to finance imports of basic foodstuffs, and ushered in what aid
agencies deem a humanitarian crisis.
More than 100,000 people have been displaced by military conflicts in both the north and south.
(Writing by Nour Merza; Editing by Louise Ireland and Sami Aboudi)
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TAIZ,
Yemen (Reuters) - Forces loyal to outgoing Yemeni President Ali
Abdullah Saleh shot dead a woman in a protest march in Taiz on Monday,
witnesses and activists said, despite tanks withdrawing under a
ceasefire pact.
Anti-Saleh tribesmen brandishing Kalashnikov rifles and members of
the Republican Guard, led by Saleh's son Ahmed, were still on many of
Taiz's streets, witnesses said.
Tanks, armored vehicles and opposition fighters left some areas of
Taiz, a hub of 10 months of unrest against Saleh's 33-year rule, but
gunmen and snipers remained and had fired on demonstrators, witnesses
said.
"Both sides violated the ceasefire agreement. We were marching
peacefully and they (Saleh's forces) shot at us yet again," medical
student Hamoud al-Aklamy told Reuters.
Both sides had pulled out of parts of the city on the orders of a
committee of lawmakers, set up by acting head of state Vice President
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi this weekend, to try to end fighting that has
killed at least 20 since Thursday.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the centre of Taiz, some 200
km (120 miles) south of the capital Sanaa, to protest against attacks on
peaceful protesters.
At least eight people in the anti-Saleh march were injured by gunmen
seen shooting from rooftops, including a 20-year-old woman who died at a
hospital after she was shot in the chest, doctors said.
Elsewhere in the country's south, government forces on Monday shelled
sites held by Islamist militants near Zinjibar, killing four of them, a
local official said.
The official said the shelling came after the militants ambushed
pro-government tribal fighters and wounded two of them. Islamist
militants have seized three cities in Yemen's south since March,
including Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province.
The attempts to end clashes in Taiz came less than two weeks after
Saleh signed a deal to hand over power to his deputy as part of a Gulf
initiative by Yemen's wealthy Arab neighbors to end protests there.
The United States has been worried that the protests, which have
weakened central government control in Yemen, could allow al Qaeda to
take advantage of the security vacuum and threaten the world's number
one oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, next door.
Activists blamed Monday's attacks on Saleh, who they say was
determined to assert his control over the army despite the accord that
made him a ceremonial president with no real powers.
"Saleh said he transferred his authority to the vice president, but
this is a game. We won't have a new government until half of Taiz is
dead," said Aklamy.
Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Basindwa, an opposition leader who
is to form a unity government with Saleh's General People's Congress
party, has said he would rethink his commitments under the deal if
fighting in Taiz did not stop.
Although the violence had eased since Sunday, witnesses heard at least six explosions in the city on Monday.
Political crisis has frequently halted the modest oil exports Yemen
uses to finance imports of basic foodstuffs, and ushered in what aid
agencies deem a humanitarian crisis.
More than 100,000 people have been displaced by military conflicts in both the north and south.
(Writing by Nour Merza; Editing by Louise Ireland and Sami Aboudi)