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Student killed by Security force in Hadramout province - March 12, 2011

Raise the southern's flags in Hadramout Province

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Students demon in Shahr districts - Hadrmout province - Feb24,2011

Shahr's March in the province of Hadramout - Feb 24, 2011

Demonstration of Mukalla in Hadramout province - Feb 18,2011

Shahr district Demonstrations in solidarity with what is happening in Aden, Hadramout Province - Feb 18,2011

Three people injured in Yemen clashes

Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam

Three people were injured as police dispersed a rally of separatists who gathered in Hadhramaut Province in the south of Yemen on Thursday.

The police used service rounds and tear gas grenades to break up the crowds.

Anti-government protests in southern Yemen have been organized by local groups who want independence for Yemen’s southern provinces.

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Gunmen kill 5 in Yemen robbery, al Qaeda blamed

Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam

Gunmen killed four Yemeni soldiers and a postal official and stole some $50,000 (£31,489) in an attack in the south of the impoverished Arab state on Wednesday, a local official said.

The gunmen, suspected of being from a local al Qaeda unit, ambushed an army-escorted postal truck carrying cash in a town in the southern province of Hadramout, said the official.

Militant attacks have been frequent in the south, where Yemen is trying to quell a resurgent wing of al Qaeda and growing separatist militancy.

Al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing has stepped up attacks on Western and regional targets in the poor Arabian peninsula state, a neighbour of oil giant Saudi Arabia.

Yemen is also trying to maintain a truce with Shi'ite rebels in the north of the country, which is a focus of Western security concerns after two U.S.-bound parcel bombs were intercepted in Britain and Dubai in October, a plot claimed by al Qaeda's local wing.

(Reporting by Mohammed Mokhashaf; Writing by Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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Researcher Arrested in Hadrmout and Nightly Protests in Aden

Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam

A security patrol ran over a soldier on Wednesday afternoon, in the city of Shehr (60 km east of Mukalla) in Hadramout province, where many areas of it were deployed by soldiers, including the coastal cities of the provinces of Abyan and Aden, to prevent and suppress the continued protest demonstrations those are proceeded spontaneously, without planning or invitations.

In the city of Shahr students launched a demonstration this afternoon, blocking a main road, burning tires and throwing stones at the security vehicles.

This event comes after a similar demonstration this morning suppressed by security forces in the city, that witnessed widespread heavy security measures, including security officers in civilian clothes to search for political activists in their homes and who asked to surrender themselves to police stations in their neighborhoods.

In the city of Dees-Alsharkia (120 km east of Mukalla) a military patrol stormed Arwa girls school and caused panic among female students when members of the patrol altercated with the school principal, who protested against the storming the school.

The researcher, Salem Faraj Muflih, was arrested in Dees-Alsharkia, and then transferred to the city of Mukalla, according to reports by media sources in the Southern Movement.

Dees has seen angry demonstrations in the evening of Wednesday, while the city of Shahr witnessed similar demonstrations.

In Aden, the largest city in the south and the former capital of the former state of South Yemen held several demonstrations in various districts including Mansoura, and Arish, the security forces suppressed them causing at least two wounded and a southern soldier when demonstrators threw stones at him in response to the firing of live bullets.

A security patrol was seen in the street of Tawila in Crater, security the area from any possible protests.

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Day of Rage Burns 33 Southern Yemeni Districts with Protests

Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam

On Jan 18, 2011 Security force suppressed a student demonstration organized by a number of school boys in the city of Shahr in Hadrmout, to censure the arrest of their director who was arrested, on Monday for refusing to submit the names of students participating in demonstrations in of the Southern Movement.

Students chanted slogans of solidarity with the director of school and raised banners of solidarity with person wounded on Monday in a demonstration in the city, and others condemning the military actions carried out by the Yemeni army in the areas Radfan of the southern Yemeni province of Lahej in order to control it.

The protest was later suppressed by security forces, and turned to hit and run.

Reportedly, a person was seriously injured in his back, caused by random live ammunitions by the Yemeni security.

Al-Mukalla, center of Hadrmout province, also witnessed clashes between the security, while the commercial activity stopped in the neighborhoods of Mukalla, Dees, and Sharj.

In Shuheir town in the district of Ghail Bawazir (40 miles northeast of Mukalla) a joint march of women and youth was suppressed by security forces fired live bullets towards, injuring the activist Ali Bin Shuhna, a leader in the Peaceful Movement of Youth and Student. Sources in the Southern Movement said that the injurity is in his head, while he has been succored to hospital.

In the city of Ghail Bawazir, angry protesters burned the headquarters of the General People's Congress in the district.

In Shabwah, the Southern Movement organized 7 different demonstrations in the province, in Jardan, Haban, Musaina'a, Khura, Bihan, Nisab, and Azan.

A number of Southern Movement activists in Shabwah, declared collective resignations from the Yemeni Socialist Party, calling the rest of the activists to abandon the party memberships.

In the province of Abyan the Southern Movement staged a demonstration of anger in Shukra, in addition to a rally procession in Jaar, while the participants raised green flags and the former flags of South Yemen, and banners condemning the military siege on the Radfan and the killing of an elderly woman in Hadramout last Thursday.

People of Al Mahfed in Abyan launched a massive march raising banners condemning the events of Radfan and Hadramout, and the militarization of the southern cities.

Speakers expressed their unlimited solidarity with the people of Radfan against the military and supply siege which is implemented by the Yemeni army at the entrances to the city of Habilyn, the major city of Radfan districts, province of Lahej.

Al Wdie also witnessed a massive demonstration attended by several Southern Movement leaders.

Center of Lahej province, al Houta, witnessed acts of violence and clashes between protesters and the security, that used live ammunitions and tear gas to suppress the protesters who blocked the main roads with burning tires.

Tur-Albaha, Halimin, and Habilyn as well witnessed other angry demonstrations, in which the chanted against the central government demanding the restoration of the former state in southern Yemen.

A huge march was staged in Al Dhalie, attended by several Southern Movement leaders including Shalal Ali Shaie and others.

The demonstrations today come after a joint call by the two southern leaders, Ali Salem Al Beidh, and Hassan Ahmed Ba'oum, to stage "a day of rage." In southern Yemen to censure the military operations in Radfan.

Nightly protests were staged in Aden, the former capital of South Yemen, in the districts of Al Mansoora, Al Areesh, Khormaksar, Twahi, and Al Bureikh, some of them were quelled by security.

Hadrmout also witnessed nightly protests in several districts, including Shehr, Mukalla, Qutun, and Al Hami, some of them were also quelled as well as Aden's.

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Demonstrations of Anger Continue in Hadrmout

Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam

On Jan 16, 2011 Students of Bamatraf High School demonstrated in the city of Shehr this afternoon to censure the killing of an elderly woman called "Masada Saleh Makhtof" in the city of Mukalla last Thursday, when she was hit and crushed by a security vehicle during a female demonstration attended by some young people and students to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the southern reconciliation forgiveness.

The students raised flags of former South Yemen and photographs of some leaders and dead killed by security forces during previous confrontations, chanting anti-unity slogans and others condemning the last incident.

On the other hand, another student protest was launched in Mukalla, in which the students reiterated slogans demand an independent state in southern Yemen.

Both of the protests had not recorded any confrontations between the security and the protesters, while media sources assured the injury of a person called "Mohammed Fhadel Al Swailmi" in another student protest in Ghil Bawazeer district in Hadrmout, after suppressing the demonstration by security forces.

The security arrested several Southern Movement activists and citizens yeasterday, among them: Saleh Aboud Al Swid, Omer Awad Al Hadadi, in addition to other were in a bus, they are: Saeed Ali Ba'hshwan, Salem Mohammed Ba'oum, Yaser Hajj Baharis, Omer Hussein Al Habani, Abdullah Ba'ghwida, Salem Bin Ghanim.

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Protests in Abyan Express Solidarity with Hadrmout and Lahej

Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam

On Jan 15, 2011 Two protests were organized in al-Mahfed and al-Ayn districts of Abyan province in southern Yemen to protest against the last events in the provinces of Lahej and Hadrmout.

The protests were organized in conjunction with the protesting schedule in the districts, those include protests on Saturdays.

Protesters raised flags of the former South Yemen in addition to green flags were asked to be raised in the protests by the former South Yemeni president, Ali Salem al-Beidh, who lives in exile. While speeches of several southern leaders censured the events that caused death and injuries in both Lahej and Hadrmout

In Lahej, the Yemeni army continued shelling the mountains overlooking the city of al-Habilyn, where militants become known as "the people's resistance," gathering in order to halt the attempts of the Yemeni army to enter the city, considered one of the Southern Movement's stronghold.

Shelling the mountains around the city continued today, while it was concentrated on Jamal Mountain that is near to the city, while a state of panic spread in the city, causing school girls to faint, what caused students from the Faculty of Education to launch a spontaneous march procession, wandering around the city and chanting against the shelling

The communications are still suspended in the districts of Radfan, while it is believed that the Yemeni government is trying to take control over the strongholds of the Southern Movement in order to set up the anticipated elections in them.

And in Hadrmout province, the protests continued for the third day in al-Mukalla, center of Hadrmout province, where a funeral procession was launch to burry an elderly woman killed by a security patrol in the city, on Thursday. The funeral was followed by violent clashes between the security and the citizens

And in al-Hami town in al-Sher district other protests were organized for the same purpose. The protesters blocked the streets with tires and rocks, and the security tried to suppress the angry crowds, arresting a number of people among them: Fahd Khamis Koni, Mohammed Omer Bin Irua, and Asad Awad Saad, according to Southern Movement sources.

Yesterday the coastal cities of Hadrmout witnessed angry protests about the murder of the elderly lady, while a state of tension is lived in the province.

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Demonstrations in 12 Southern Yemeni Cities on the Day of Reconciliation and Forgiveness

Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam

Southern Yemenis protested in 12 cities and towns in order to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the reconciliation and forgiveness launched in 2006, in the twentieth anniversary of the bloody events of January 13, 1986, in which the two wings in the former ruling party in southern Yemen, the Socialist Party, struggled each other causing the death of thousands of people after provincial alignments.

In al-Mukala district, center of Hadrmout province, an elderly woman was killed when she was hit by a security patrol in the city, while she was demonstrating with several other women and young people.

Reportedly, a person was shot in his leg and another woman was seized by the neck by a Yemeni soldier when she chanted slogans against the Yemeni unity.

According to sources in the city of al-Mukalla, a state of tension is lived in the city till the moment, while soldiers were deployed in the city in anticipation for any protests against about the death of the elderly woman.

In al-Shr city (60 miles east of Mukalla), security forces dispersed a student demonstration, this morning, launched by school boys to revive the memory of the reconciliation and forgiveness, chanting the usual slogans of the Southern Movement that demand an independent state, and raising flags of the former state of South Yemen.

The demonstration turned into a hit and run between the security and the students, who hurled stones on the security patrols. However no casualties recorded among the students.

To the west of Hadrout, in Shabwah province, different demonstrations were staged, the biggest of them were in the districts of Nisab and Mayfa'a, where many Southern Movement leaders attended to participate in the demonstrations and to renew the "principles of the reconciliation and forgiveness."

It was noticeable the participation of school boys and secondary schools who raised flags of former South Yemen.

Two other demonstrations were staged in Khora and Azan areas of the same province. Both of the demonstrations were attended by Southern Movement leaders, who bid the people "to stick to the reconciliation and forgiveness," and "to continue the peaceful struggle."

Sheikh Lahmar Bin Ali Lasuad in Azan's demonstration attacked the Yemeni opposition, represented by the Joint Meeting, saying that "the Joint Meeting comes out from the womb of the GPC," he said, adding "there is a tight relationship between them, and whatever happens, they will never live apart."

In Abyan province to the west of Shabwah, southerners staged at least five demonstrations in Shukra, al-Mahfed, Je'ar, Rusud, and the largest one of them was in Lawder, the largest city in the central region of Abyan.

The demonstration was attended by several Southern Movement leaders, including leaders from outside the province of Abyan.

Lahej province witnessed two demonstrations, the first was staged in Tur al-Baha, and the second in al-Habilyn, the largest city of Radfan area that has a main road links the city of Aden with Sana'a, the Yemeni capital.

In al-Habilayn's demonstration, the participants gathered in the arena known as "the Martyrs Square," raising flags of South Yemen and banners with statements glorifying the principle of reconciliation and forgiveness, and invite the people of the south to establish the high value of its principles, in addition to others condemning the shelling and the blockade imposed by the Yemeni military forces on the cities of Radfan and its villages, and cutting off communications and prevention of the entry of food supplies, gas, and pharmaceutical industries to the region since last Saturday.

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Woman dies in south Yemen protest

Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam

A woman was run over and killed by a police vehicle and two other people were wounded in south Yemen on Thursday during a demonstration demanding the release of militants, witnesses and a medic said.

The woman was fatally injured when she was hit by the vehicle in Mukallah, the main town in Hadramawt province in the southeast of the country, when police intervened to disperse protesters, they said.

A second protester was wounded by gunfire and a third by tear gas, witnesses said.

A medical source confirmed that the dead woman and the two wounded had been taken to hospital in Mukallah.

During the demonstration, protesters chanted slogans demanding the release of jailed members of the secessionist Southern Movement.

In addition to grappling with an increasingly violent southern separatist movement, the Sanaa government is struggling against a growing presence of Al-Qaeda fighters in the south.

South Yemen was independent from the 1967 British withdrawal from Aden until the region united with the north in 1990. The south seceded in 1994, sparking a short-lived civil war that ended with it being overrun by northern troops.

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