Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 2:54:00 PM CET
People should never be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 2:33:00 PM CET
West hits Libyan defences as Gaddafi vows to fight
Western air strikes pounded Muammar Gaddafi's defences and allied warplanes patrolled Libyan skies on Sunday, lifting the siege of Benghazi and allowing rebels to surge forward and retake lost ground.
The aerial assault stopped in its tracks the advance by Gaddafi's troops into Benghazi and left the burnt and shattered remains of his tanks and troop carriers littering the main road outside the rebel stronghold. The charred bodies of at least 14 government soldiers lay scattered in the desert.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Fotos Bombing Gaddafis Positionen - Operación 'Odisea del Amanecer' en Libia
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 1:20:00 PM CET
Bodies of fighters, civilians crowd Benghazi morgue
At least 24 bodies of fighters and civilians, many burnt beyond recognition, lay in the morgue of Benghazi's main hospital on Sunday.
The hospital's wards were filled with men, women and children wounded in Saturday's assault by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces on the rebels' eastern stronghold.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 1:12:00 PM CET
ANALYSIS - Allied attack tests loyalty of Gaddafi insiders
Fight to the end for Muammar Gaddafi? Or defect and save your skin?
The second question may not occur to most in Gaddafi's inner circle, committed to Libya's longtime leader by blood ties, ideology, business interest or complicity in repression, analysts say.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 1:11:00 PM CET
Yemeni president's own tribe demands he step down
The Yemeni president's own tribe has called on him to step down after a deadly crackdown on protesters, robbing the embattled U.S.-backed leader of vital support in a society dominated by blood ties.
Some of the country's most important religious leaders joined in the call for President Ali Abdullah Saleh's resignation, and his human rights minister announced she was quitting as tens of thousands joined a burial procession for some of the more than 40 protesters slain by government gunmen Friday.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 1:04:00 PM CET
Updated list of Resignations in Yemen
Update: Following Friday's shooting in Sanaa a number of officials in the ruling GPC party have submitted their resignations.
Below is an up-dated list that continues from this earlier post.
I will add more updates as they become available.
Waq al-waq has decided, in keeping with protests in Yemen, to keep a running tally of people resigning from the ruling GPC. It very much looks like people are abandoning ship.
This list only represent those who resigned in protest or to join the protesters, not those who were fired or forced out.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 1:00:00 PM CET
Yemen protests: Evidence snipers shot to kill
Photographs and amateur video footage have provided the first compelling evidence that professional snipers shot to kill when they opened fire on an anti-government demonstration in Yemen that left at least 52 protesters dead.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 12:38:00 PM CET
Yemen's human rights minister resigns after protest deaths
Yemen's minister of human rights, Huda al-Baan, has resigned after a government crackdown on protesters resulted in the deaths of 52 people last week, an official in her office said Sunday.
The official did not want to be identified as he or she is not authorized to speak to the media.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 12:36:00 PM CET
Why is US backing force in Libya but not Bahrain, Yemen? - Yemen in state of emergency after protest massacre
What's the difference between Libya and Yemen or Bahrain?
All three states have been using violence to crush pro-democracy protests.
But only against Libya are the US and its Western allies planning a military response.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 12:35:00 PM CET
In Yemen, eyewitnesses see over 40 Saudi military vehicles & tanks crossing Yemen's border heading towards city of Hodeidah
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 20, 2011 at 12:34:00 PM CET
In Yemen, Opposition Encourages Protesters
For the first time since demonstrators began camping out in front of Sana University calling for an end to the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country’s opposition leaders attended the protest as a group on Saturday afternoon to voice their support. In a sign of widening alarm at the government’s response to the demonstrations, several ministers and officials quit their posts.
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