Kaleem Washington, Crime
Blog #8
Source: Global Post
Scores dead in Yemen after snipers open fire on protesters
In Sanaa, Yemen Friday March 18, 2011, Yemeni security forces opened fire in a crowd of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters outside Sanaa University in the capital, killing scores and wounding many more. It is said that the shooters wore plain clothes and fired down on the demonstration from rooftops and windows after the protesters rose from their noon prayers. These violent attacks on protesters have sought to be carried out by plainclothes police, in which this becomes a criminal action of unjust murder and violence. This attack has left at least 50 scores dead and more than 100 injured, which is a significant increase in the previous week where 29 people had been reported killed in the unrest violent turn of events. The reason for these violent actions is a direct result of daily anti-government demonstrations in Sanaa and other cities around the country since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ouster on Feb. 11. The Yemeni anti-government does not like how the current President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s laws that he has put in place and how he is running the country.
I believe the Yemen government is directly behind the criminal actions of killing innocent protestors. Because these violent actions continue to take place, more people continue to get injured and many people are killed as a result. Voicing one’s opinion towards the government has long been a re-occurrence in many countries, however; so has the violent reaction that takes place when the governments try to silence and threaten protesters through violent actions of crime or unlawful behavior that is not punished by the government because it is swept under the table. in order for innocent people to stop dying the criminal actions that governmental agencies executes needs to be brought into the public light so that people can see what horrendous actions take place during closed doors.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/110318/yemen-protest-guns-cnn-video
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