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Yemeni officials: 4 killed in clashes with police
By AHMED AL-HAJ
Associated Press
2009-05-22 03:52 AM

At least four Yemenis were killed Thursday and dozens others injured when police reportedly opened fire during a demonstration by thousands of anti-government protesters in the southern port of Aden, officials said Thursday.
They were protesting against discrimination of southern residents by the government located in the north, said police officials.
Hospital personnel and a security official said four died in the clashes with police and seven were reported in critical condition.
Yemen's south has been rocked by violent demonstrations by disgruntled southerners calling for reform and power-sharing. Although north and south Yemen united in 1990, rebels launched a failed bid for independence in 1994.
Ali Salem al-Beidh, the former Yemeni vice president who declared the south independent in 1994 and sparked civil war, urged southerners Thursday to continue the fight. He told reporters in Germany that the international community should force the government to withdraw its army from the south.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a speech broadcast on national television that those who want to secede would fail as they did in 1994 and "unity is solid and is protected by the honest people of Yemen."
A security official in Aden said police fired shots in the air to disperse the demonstrators Thursday. He did not say whether anyone was killed or injured by the gunfire, but indicated the demonstration was not approved in advance by the police.
Police prevented journalists and television stations from covering the event, according to the official, who said at least 120 people have been detained.
He and other officials requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

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