By Mohammed al-Kibsi
Yemen’s revolutionary council and peace Laurent Tawakul
Karman condemned the announcements of the US ambassador Gerald Feierstein that
said the Life March from Taiz to Sana’a was not peaceful.
The revolutionary council demanded that ambassador Feierstein
most apologize while Tawkul Karman in her face book described the announcement as
brutal. “How did he know that the march would turn violent,” she wondered. Some
other youth affiliated to Houthi even demanded the US ambassador to leave
Yemen.
Feierstein had said
in a press conference held at the embassy on Saturday that the march of
life that was approaching Sana'a aimed
to erupt chaos and violence. “It seems
to have the intention not to carry out a peaceful march, but to get access to
Sana'a in order to generate chaos and provoke a violent response by the
security forces”, US ambassador said.
“Peace is not only not to take up arms, for example , if
2000 people decided to protest to the White House in US, we do not consider it a peaceful act and will not allow this,” US ambassador
added.
These announcements provoked controversy and anger among the
youth and opposition activists that organized the march.
According to opposition sources over 9 demonstrators were
killed when some of the demonstrators changed their route and tried to head to
the Presidential complex.
They clashed with the security barriers set ups to prevent
them from reaching to the presidential complex in al-Sabein area in the south
of Sana’a.
The protesters affiliated to the JMP accused the so called
Shabab al-Somoud affiliated to Houthi of derailing the march and of erupting
chaos and violence.
Thousands of protesters who marched from Taiz south of Yemen
entered Yemen's capital Saturday after a 5-day march passing three Yemeni
provinces.
Prior to the march the General People Congress Party (GPC)
that is the ruling party called on the sponsors of the GCC peace deal to
pressure on the Joint Meeting Opposition Parties JMP to respect the deal and
stop provocations accusing them of sponsoring the march of life to temper the
peace deal.
President Saleh in his press conference held on Saturday few
hours before the incidents accused Hamid al-Ahmar of financing the life march.
He also accused him of being in charge of the June 3 assassination
attempt that targeted him and other high rank Yemeni officials that resulted in
killing dozens including the speaker of Yemen Senate late Abdul-Aziz Abdul
Ghani and wounding man others including the president himself, the former prime
minister and the speaker of the parliament.
Saleh called on the opposition parties and all other parties
to commit to the GCC deal as a whole matrix but not to be selective.
The president also said that he would leave Yemen to the
United States not only for medical treatment as was announced by some UN
officials but also for some political affairs.
He said he would leave and stay abroad so as to give chance
for the interim government to organize the early presidential elections.
However he said he would come back to Yemen to lead his ruling party GPC when
in the opposition.
The violence underlined the continuing turmoil in Yemen even
after Saleh signed a GCC brokered deal that
was backed by UNSC resolution last month by which he handed his powers to his
vice president and committed to step down completely within 90 days.
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