Tensions simmer in southern Yemen
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
As the Yemeni army hunts down al-Qaeda-linked groups across the country and struggles to maintain peace with a Zaydi Shia insurgency in the north, political tensions in the south are driving a new wedge into the already fractured country. At least 17 protesters have been killed and 864 arrested since the unrest erupted in the summer of 2007.
During the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, I traveled around southern Yemen and interviewed the leaders of groups that have been calling for independence. Read the story at Aljazeera.net.
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