By Prensa Latina
Sanaa : At least 17 people were wounded and dozens were arrested on Monday in new clashes between demonstrators and agents of the anti-riot forces I five southern cities of Yemen, opposition sources reported.
The cities of Ad Dalee, Zanyebar, Al Hebelein, Karash, and Tauz were the scenes of protests against detention of dozens of Yemenis, during demonstrations against unemployment in recent days.
In Aden, the country’s southern capital, the anti-riot forces prevented hundreds of students from demonstrating and arrested 17 people, the sources said.
The demonstrations began peacefully in late March in Ad Dalee, where hundreds of people protested the army’s refusal to employ them, but arrival of security forces unleashed the disturbances, some media said.
Armored and combat vehicles arrived in the country’s southern area in recent days to stop the riots, which according to the government, are encouraged by the opposition to incite to violence and separate Yemen’s southern region, which was reunified in 1994.
Tensions in that region have increased since the past summer, after the local population performed several demonstrations to protest a rise in prices and accuse the government of corruption, the sources recalled.