24 Dead in Fresh Yemen Violent Repression

24 Dead in Fresh Yemen Violent Repression

Juan Cole 04/06/2011

Violent repression of Yemen’s protesters led to 24 deaths on Tuesday in Sanaa and Taizz.

Demonstrations were put down near Sanaa university, and dissident Gen. Ali Mohsen Ahmar maintains that an assassination attempt was made on his life by members of the presidential guard.

Aljazeera English reports on the renewed protests and violence.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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