Protesters calling for an end to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime gathered massively in the capital Sanaa on Friday, protected by dissident army forces, an AFP correspondent reported.
“The Yemeni people have decided they will not stop until they are free,” chanted the protesters gathered in Sittin Road. “Free people go on with this revolt, it is for good.”
“We will not be broken. We die or win,” chanted the protesters who were protected by troops loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who pledged support for the protesters in March. The soldiers paraded in Sittin Road before the weekly Muslim prayers began declaring themselves as Yemen’s “victory brigades,” said an AFP reporter there. Witnesses said similar protests took place further south in Ibb and Yemen’s second largest city Taez, where security forces opened fire on demonstrators Thursday killing one and wounding 13 others, according to medics.
