Arab regimes fear the power of the masses
Cairo, Sanaa / Damascus - mass protests, violence against protesters - the resistance of the peoples of Arabia against their rulers is continuing. In Syria , theYemen and in Egypt the people go to the streets, everywhere there are eruptions of violence with many dead and wounded.
Alone in the city Taiz in the south of the country about 100,000 people took part in a demonstration. There, four protesters on Friday were killed and about 400 were injured when security forces against protesters precedence over brutal. They had used tear gas and opened fire on the crowd too, as the protesters demanded the resignation Salih .The participants of the protest made the local governor's security chief and leader of the ruling party responsible for the deaths of the demonstrators.
Massive conflict between Yemen and Qatar guide
Meanwhile, growing tensions between Yemen and Qatar. The Gulf state is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which has suggested that Salih passes in return for immunity from prosecution over power to his vice. Yemen then called back its ambassador from Qatar.Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait , Oman and Bahrain had week a proposal for a resignation of the President in creating this. He states that Salih Abdu Rabo and withdraws in a transitional period, to be held responsible Vice President. Salih and his family should be guaranteed impunity. The opponents of the 1978 acting president since his immediate resignation and call for democratic reforms.But Salih refuses to yield. Tens of thousands of his own supporters in the capital Sanaa, he said: "Our power is derived from the power of our great nation, not Qatar or anyone else, this is clearly an interference in the internal affairs of Yemen.."
Syria to bloody suppression of demonstrations
In Syria, went further on Saturday the bloody unrest. In the city of Latakia security forces fired live bullets at demonstrators. Hundreds had gathered in a primarily Sunni-populated district to demand more democracy. There were many injuries and possibly fatalities.Already Friday it was after the Friday prayers in the mosques to bloody riots came in, at least 37 people died. Human rights activists call to daily protests against the government of President Bashar al Assad on. Such appeals appeared on Saturday in social networks on the Internet.Human rights activists and eyewitnesses in the city Daraa said, security forces had fired on tens of thousands of demonstrators. 25 people have died, hundreds more were injured. On the roofs of the city were snipers were stationed, said an eyewitness. State television reported, however, whether from the ranks of the demonstrators have been shot first. 19 officers were killed. Daraa was the starting point of the protests that have spread in the past three weeks on the country. In the western city of Homs five demonstrators were shot. In Deir al-Zor, near the Iraqi border on corny thugs demonstrators. In the port city of Latakia after Friday prayers were also hundreds of opponents to the streets. They cried, "What a shame, shooting at peaceful demonstrators."The Syrian protest movement calls for three weeks of demonstrations every Friday ruled against the government of President Assad, whose family built the country in Western Asia for nearly 40 years. Human rights organizations, died in the violent suppression of the protests so far over 170 people died.
Obama: "Odious violence"
U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the use of "wretched violence against peaceful demonstrators in Syria sharply:" I urge Syrian authorities to the violence against peaceful demonstrators to refrain from further all over. In addition, arbitrary arrests, detentions and the torture of prisoners, The border has been reported now, ". Obama also criticized the violence on the part of protesters.
Details of the events in Syria should be freely accessible to allow independent verification of events was possible, the U.S. president. The regime in Damascus did not meet the legitimate demands of the demonstrators so far, Obama lamented. Assad had announced in recent days, some reforms to stop the protest movement that began in March. He lifted the work restrictions for women with veils and ordered the award of Syrian citizenship to 250,000 stateless Kurds. In the mainly Kurdish populated city Kamischli some demonstrators shouted: "Citizenship is not a substitute for freedom."
Assad belongs to the Alawite religious minority. He had the protests of the opponents of the regime from the revolution in Tunisia and Egypt could have inspired, attempt radical Sunnis represented as, to sow discord between religious groups.In fact, some of the protesters sympathizing with the Muslim Brotherhood, and occasionally at the rallies are also religious slogans called. But the protests are also members of other religious groups.
Egypt: First peace, then broke out the chaos
The protests began in Egypt on Friday, first in peace. In the capital, Cairo, hundreds of thousands called for in one of the largest demonstrations since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak to prosecute the former heads of state. Tens of thousands crowded the symbol of the democracy movement has become Tahrir Square, waving Egyptian flags. They threw in front of the ruling Military Council to slow the corruption of the era of Mubarak's tackle.But then, the mood at the security forces took violent action against the demonstrators. According to doctors, two people were killed. At least 18 more were injured in the early hours of Saturday when military police tried to clear the square of protesters, said doctors. The demonstrators also demanded the resignation of the chairman of the ruling military council, Hussein Tantawi.Whether the deaths and injuries caused by firearms, the doctors could not tell at first. There was no official confirmation of the deaths until Saturday lunchtime it. It would be the first fatality in the Tahrir Square following the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February.
