Armies of Liberation

Last week, Central Security forces directly attacked the protesters in Aden with armored vehicles, tanks and artillery with such force that the protesters fled. There were several fatalities and injuries as they cleared the square. The protesters later re-grouped. The earliest reports of distributing weapons to regime loyalists came out of Aden a month ago and the tactic is being repeated in other governorates including Hajjah as document leaks reveal. If its a test run, its going to get bloody very soon. Ali Mohsen (and his expanding force) is committed to protecting the protesters in Sanaa, but those in other governorates like Taiz, Ibb, Hodeidah are more vulnerable. Local sources report a build up of state forces on the Mareb/al Jawf border. Very large protests in Saada are under-reported. State forces were being repositioned as Saleh used several weeks of negotiations with the GCC as a hudna to consolidate and prepare for war. Prospects for a deal are dead as Saleh adds new conditions with every meeting with the GCC’s representative.

Today’s protests in Sanaa are dedicated to remembering the Southerners killed this year which is a nice gesture. (The hundreds of southern fatalities prior to 2011 in Lahj, Dahlie, Radfan etc. received little attention from human rights activists in Sanaa at the time. There’s a bit of schism between Aden and the rest of the south for a century.) Secessionists remain committed to an independent state and non-violence. Former politicians outside Yemen are not speaking for the populist Southern Movement, which remains alienated from northern protesters. There hasn’t been much peel off; the protesters in Aden now were not protesting before.

Statement on the events in Mansoura governorate of Aden

Live the city of Mansoura governorate of Aden since the dawn of the day Saturday, 04/30/2011 situation of an undeclared war, where embarked elements of the central security forces opened fire indiscriminately at Martyrs Square in Mansoura, followed by the process of encircling the yard in various armored vehicles and tanks, resulting in storm and to disperse the protestors inside, has also damaged a number of buildings surrounding the arena, and left scores of dead and wounded.

Faced with this tragic situation and the successor of a state of terror among the civilians, the Youth Coordinating Board of the peaceful revolution – Aden declares its condemnation of the use of violence by the Central Security Forces against the protestors peacefully.

Also declares its rejection of various forms of violence, whatever its source or its owner, and demands that the protesters in the various arenas and fields hold the option of peaceful, and miss the opportunity in front of the local authority and security in the governorate and which will spare no effort towards the introduction of everyone in the midst of the chaos, and that arming citizens to engage in work fire on security forces in an intimidating manner to find a pretext to suppress the protesters.

Council warns of the consequences of those actions authoritarian efforts to create a state of chaos and lawlessness in order to distract the attention of people from the basic requirement that fight for him and in favor of departure and his regime.

Council appeals to the various human rights organizations and local and international humanitarian urgent intervention to stop the war launched by the Authority initiated this morning in the Garden of Eden.

Issued by the Youth Council coordinate the peaceful revolution – Aden

April 30, 2011

Other reporting

Yemen Post

The security forces raided the martyr camp in Yemen’s business capital Aden on Saturday and sources confirmed that four people were killed and others injured, as the protests calling for the ouster of the regime continued in many cities. Some homes suffered damages due attacks by the military vehicles.

Hundreds of people were staging a sit-in in solidarity with the popular uprising in the squares of change and freedom in other cities and in solidarity with the families of the protesters killed while calling for the ouster of President Saleh.

The security forces surrounded the camp from all directions and set fire to it, and tanks and armoured vehicles were seen breaking in, local sources said.

The forces pursued the protesters in alleys, while ambulances rushed to the site, the sources said.

Meanwhile, other sources said that unknown armed groups exchanged gunfire with the forces but the protesters affirmed they had nothing to do with the exchange of gunfire.

Also, security sources said that an officer and two soldiers were killed in the clashes, as they justified the action as carried out after armed people attacked guards at the Mansoura police station.

“The authorities were also afraid that the area will be turned into a square for the separatists who are currently taking advantage of insecurity in Aden amid the continuous unrest,” the security sources said.

The youth revolution of February 16 youth peaceful announce at this time for the restoration of the Martyrs Square in the city of Mansoura, after that could youth revolution and a peaceful way out of the army and security forces that stormed the Central on Saturday, 04/30/2011 Martyrs Square, using all types of light and medium weapons and heavy, and was the result of this barbaric act, the fall of the four martyrs and wounded dozens.
The crimes of this regime against humanity did not stop killing people but rather extended to the destruction of rocks and trees and the violation of the sanctity of houses of God, where troops have control of the yard sit looted the contents of the mosque opposite the Martyrs Square and worked to prevent the mosque’s imam and worshipers from entering it, as they burned all camps and the podium scene and destroyed the medical room and a prayer room for women, and tearing down photos of the martyrs and logos of youth revolution.
Showed effects on the front of houses and hotels nearby the large number of missile launchers and the types of bullets of different, and also the effects of storm the hotel and ransacked its contents and all reached their hands dirty, that such acts do not only reflect the face of this system ugly, which holds only a culture of murder, deceit, looting and vandalism and

The AP is reporting one killed, seven injured in Aden, but the following report on Mallah and al Mansoura indicates two fatalities. The divisions that are responsible for the violence around the country are the two the US had invested so heavily in for CT ops, the Republican Guard and the Central Security.

Since nine O’clock this morning and the city of Aden is facing a brutal attack against the peaceful protesters by the Central Security and the Republican Guard Forces who belong to Saleh’s regime. At least two protesters killed in Al Mu’alla and Al Mansoura districts, but no accurate information on the total number of victims has been confirmed yet. Appeals for rescue been flown by Aden women and men citizens since this morning. Aden now is crying.

Yemenis as calling people of the world, especially people of the Gulf to urge their governments to stop the bloodshed in Yemen, they at the same time holding international and Gulf governments the responsibility and accountability towards the massacres conducting in Yemen for the reason of been supportive to Saleh illegitimate regime. Is Yemeni blood that cheap? What a shameful deed!

The Yemeni security authorities campaigns of mass arrests and torture
And growing persecution of the population of the governorate of Aden and other governorates.

He said a number of activists Thursday that the leader known as Abdullah Al
Ahmed Hassan Aldhalai was severely beaten several times by security officers at a
Prisons in the province of Aden in an attempt to obtain the names of other activists in the province.

وتقوم السلطات الامنية اليمنية بحملات الاعتقالات الجماعية والتعذيب
والاضطهاد المتزايد لسكان محافظة عدن و المحافظات الآخرى.

وقال عددا من النشطاء اليوم الخميس ان القيادي المعروف المهندس عبد الله
أحمد حسن الضالعي تعرض للضرب المبرح عدة مرات من قبل ضباط الأمن في أحد
سجون محافظة عدن في محاولة للحصول على أسماء ناشطين آخرين في المحافظة .

Also protest in Radfan for independence, the regularly scheduled “prisoners day” march

Eight persons were injured when security forces shot at the protesters’ tent in the main road of Maalla city.

The shooting came on the protesters at 9:45 AM when republican guard elements along with armored vehicles stormed the camp to evacuate it and eliminate any manifestations of the events held by the protesters in the city.

Aden and all its districts had witnessed from early morning demonstrations including various departments in solidarity with the protesters in the square of the change in Sanaa after the massacre which committed the Saleh regime when 52 people were killed and more then 200 injured.

After the clashes many of angry protesters in Aden marched to the police station but the armored vehicles prevented them from approaching.

Arabic: http://ia600405.us.archive.org/23/items/report_361/2.pdf

English: http://ia600405.us.archive.org/6/items/report_131/February_20111_report_SOHR1.pdf

30 dead, 216 injured, 130 in jail, 36 properties damaged

Well over 100 protesters were injured in Taiz today, ambushed shot and gassed under the stewardship of the newly transferred Gen Qairan. US Ambassador Feierstein said on Sunday that General Qairan’s removal from Aden would be a sign of good faith from Saleh regime* and chided the Yemeni public for having no faith in Saleh’s recent round of promises. I wonder how long it is going to take for him to come to the inescapable conclusion that Saleh is a compulsive liar and not reformable. The US wanted Qiran out of Aden, so Saleh sent him to attack civilians in Taiz. Is that some kind of sick joke? There’s 140 in the field hospital in Taiz, gassed and shot, including 16 girls who tried to stand their ground. This is video of the school girls talking about getting kicked out of school for joining the protests.

*The exact quote from Feierstein was, “We think that it would be useful to remove some of the senior security officials who have been involved in some of these violent or forced confrontations with demonstrators, particularly in Aden.”

In other news, the new governor in Aden promised not to use bullets in countering protesters: The security forces in Aden will not use live bullets in demonstrations following four protesters were killed in clashes with police, the newly appointed governor of Aden Ahmed al-Qa’tabi said on Wednesday in a news conference. “We have agreed with the security committee not to use live bullets…. after four persons were killed last Saturday in clashes happened in Dar Saad district of Aden”, he added.

Clashes at Marib check point kill three AQ Nasser Arrabyee reports and:

Meanwhile, two Al Qaeda operatives were arrested in a check point in the central province of Taiz where big anti-regime protests started about 40 days ago. The two men were identified by the security officials in a statement, as Khalid Saeed Ba Tarfi, alias Abu Mekdad Al Kanadi, and Ahmed Omar Abdul Jalil, alias, Al Lahji. They were described as dangerous operatives.

Ba Tarfi was known as one of the spokesmen of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular (AQAP) and he is the local Emir of AQAP in the southern province of Abyan. Ba Tarfi succeeded Jamil Al Ambari, who was killed in an air strike on March 14th, 2010, in Mudiyah of Abyan province.

Alternate spelling from al Motamar: “Khalid Saeed Batarfi surnamed Abu Miqdad and called Emir of Abyan, and the second terrorist is Ahmed Omar Abdul Jalil al-Khadhmi with a surname of Amer Obel.” This could be a real capture or something for the benefit of the US, that latter more likely statistically.

In Sanaa, police opened fire and used tear gas against protesters, wounding four. Estimates are 150 people were wounded on Wednesday when security forces tried to break up a demo in Hodeidah.

Saleh released southern prisoner al Ghabari after 16 years in prison in Sanaa.

Now that the foreign journos are gone, heat ratchets up on the locals: “Journalist Fouad Rashid of the YJS Hadramout branch called on the International Federation of Journalists, the Organization of the international press and the Arab Journalists Union to intervene to stop the regime’s orders compelling broke into his house and arrest and terrorize his family, noting that it is in the public square city of Mukalla, which would not leave under any reason.”

Short vid of Saudis unloading military equipment in Aden.

“Saleh does not [need] to dialogue with anyone to start applying the rule of law.” Truly excellent analysis of overall picture from Abdulghani al Iryani, very well worth a full read: “This current regime chose to host every violent extremist that came down the road from the period since the early 1980s onwards. And so we are paying the price. Al-Iman University, a major ideological centre for violent extremists, is being supported by the regime. And it just started new branches in Omran and Hadramout with government support.”

Good write up of Zindani’s double game includes Zindani’s early history and current deals with Saleh.

Captured Brit in Libya says he is member of LIFG, “Speaking through an interpreter, Mr Aboaoba said he moved from Yemen to Britain in 2005 and travelled to Libya late last year.”
Gaddaffi using for propaganda purposes.

World Threats: Mohammad al-Zawahiri, the brother of al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was released Thursday from Egyptian prison after more than ten years of incarceration. Extradited from the Yemen in 1999, he had been held on charges of conspiring against the government in relation to the assassination of former Egypt’s former President Anwar Sadat.

In Dhalie, al Masdar reports the usual Thursday marches for the prisoners and an independent state. Although the former presidents and southern officials abroad announced a joining to the protest movement, from what I have seen and learned, there are very few in the south of Yemen whose position (the demand for an independent state) has changed since the outbreak of protests in Sanaa and Taiz. Its a major issue in that northerners are widely unaware on the depth of the southerners sentiment, their sense of separate identity, and determination to continue their struggle. Northerners who discuss it, often do it with derision.

Thousands of supporters of the movement in the southern regions of Dali and Lahj and Shabwa southern Yemen on Thursday and called on the detainee, which falls on Thursday of each week.

The demonstrators chanted slogans calling for disengagement and re-southern part independent state on what it was before 1990. Photos and raise thousands of former Yemeni Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh, and photographs of detainees at the disposal of the southern movement and the flag of the south earlier.

The leaders of the southern movement announced its accession to the protests in Yemen to demand the toppling of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, but other militant leaders refused, saying that her case is the issue of “occupation” of the South.

vid Crater Aden, for the freedom of Baoum and a separate state:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R730tEL8mhQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xql39fyLs8w

This is a bad guy for Adenis, extremely corrupt and brutal, and I’m happy to see him go, but moving him to Taiz isn’t really an improvement. New heads: Aden, Brgdr Ghazi Ahmad Ali mohsn; Taiz, Abdullah Kairan and Dhalie, Lt.col.Ali Alamri From what I can gather these are all bad guys just shifted around: General Al Omarai who is moving to Dahlie was the deputy head in Taiz where he is “famous for immoral behavior”, I’m quoting. And the head in al Dhalie is going to Aden. All are well known for arbitrary violence against citizens but Gen Qiran is the worst. Update: The new ambassador, Feierstein, said in his interview Sunday, Yemen Observer: “We think that it would be useful to remove some of the senior security officials who have been involved in some of these violent or forced confrontations with demonstrators, particularly in Aden.” So what happened was Saleh shifted him to Taiz, which answers another of the ambassador’s points- give him a task and see if he completes it. And in this case and all cases the answer will be no. The US is asserting that Saleh changed, just as they did after the 2006 prison break and numerous other incidents, and he gets a fresh slate. Well he failed this test and will fail all the rest.

: News Yemen: Interior Ministry issued a resolution to transfer security chief Ghazi Dali Ahmad Ali Mohsen Director of Aden Security, (Read on …)

The head of security in Aden is a major criminal kingpin and smuggling facilitator for high ranking officials. Abdullah Queran is also the head of the regime’s smuggling operations in Aden, see here.) Queran is prohibiting some wounded from entering hospitals.

Protesters demand government to sack director of security in Aden south of Yemen threatening to turn the city to another Benghazi Yemen Online:
14/3/2011
Protestors in Aden province south of Yemen demanded Yemen government to sack director of security in Aden south of Yemen threatening to turn the city to another Benghazi. People have the right to defend ourself against oppression and violence the director of security in Aden and his soldiers .. We will be armed resistance because security attacks and kills the orders of the Director of Security .. We are not animals’ demonstrators said to YemenOnline.

The siuation in Aden city is very serious and sensitive, People feel aggrieved that their right to peaceful resistance is violated daily by the security forces’ Ahmed Hobieshi editor in chife of 14 October daily newspaper .Meanwhile, A group of protestors attacked and burned a police station in Al-Mansoura city in Aden south of Yemen. They used Molotov cocktails and weapons while the soldiers fled, allowing the protesters ransacked a number of weapons inside the police building .

Various reports are coming in from Aden.

1 confirmed dead at Al-Naqeeb Hospital + 6 injured
1 confirmed dear at Al-Wali Hospital + an unknown number of injured

Demonstrators have surrounded the house of Abdullah Queran, the police commissioner. (Queran is the head of the regime’s smuggling operations in Aden, see here.) Queran is prohibiting some wounded from entering hospitals.

Security forces on Friday afternoon proceeded to commit an atrocity towards the civilian demonstrators in the city of Mansoura governorate of Aden, South Yemen when the soldiers opened fire on thousands of civilians who were in the process of peaceful anti-Yemeni regime march that was heading towards the city Khormaksar (Read on …)

Its a comprehensive report but there are many more fatalities than those listed.

HRW: From February 16 to 25, 2011, Yemeni security forces in the southern city of Aden repeatedly used excessive force, including live ammunition, against largely peaceful protesters. They killed at least nine and possibly twice as many protesters, and injured up to 150, some of them children. (Read on …)

Yemen entered the fourth week of anti-regime protests with a late night onslaught of state violence against protesters at Sanaa University who were demanding the resignation of long-ruling president Field Marshall Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The attack began two hours ago when security forces opened fire on the protesters. Early conflicting reports indicate three have head wounds and died or are in very critical condition. Over 30 were wounded by gunfire and another 40 were injured after being beaten with clubs or choking on tear gas.

Several witnesses reported the medical professionals rushing to the scene were stopped by police. At the same time, the protesters appealed for blood donations and medical supplies via twitter stating several people are bleeding out near the gates of the university. Two medics were beaten by state security.

The crowd that gathered today, international Woman’s Day, had a larger number of women and girls than on prior days.

Witnesses said members of the Republican Guard opened fired along with Central Security forces. The Republican Guard is headed by President Saleh’s son Ahmed, and has received US counter-terror training, .The Central Security forces are under the command of President Saleh’s nephew.

The assault began late in the evening, about 11:00 as protesters were mostly hunkered down for the night or trying to set up new tents. Central Security officers were spotted removing their uniforms before entering the university square. The officers had arrived in government vehicles, witnesses report. The situation remains tense as it nears 1:00 am in Sanaa and the wounded have yet to receive treatment.

Widespread protests

The deaths in Sanaa were preceded by fatalities among protesters on Monday in outlying the provinces of Ibb, Aden, Dhamar when state forces opened fire on protesters. In Ibb over 70 were reported injured with bullet wounds at a protest that drew several hundred thousand. Protests have spread as far as Socotra Island. Sanhan, President Saleh’s home village was marked with anti-regime graffiti.

The war torn Saada province saw the resignation of Faris Manna from the ruling GPC party, the latest of over a dozen high profile allies to desert President Saleh. Manna, a long time regime ally, was the state’s mediator to the Houthi rebels. A major weapons dealer, Manaa was sanctioned by the UN in 2010 for smuggling arms to Somalia. Along with Manna, an estimated 300 ruling party officials also resigned leading to what a partisan site called “the emancipation of Saada from the corrupt regime.”

Military deploys in cities

The violence came after a meeting between Saleh and his relative, General Ali Mohsen al Ahmar, perhaps the most powerful man in the military. After the meeting last night, military units were deployed in Sanaa, Taiz and Aden today. Large scale protest were held in 12 provinces.

In Sanna, Al Masdar Online reported the “widespread and unprecedented presence of armored vehicles.” The day’s violence marked the first time soldiers had shot at the protesters in Sanaa. Previously the Saleh regime used paid thugs as deniable proxies as well as members of the security forces including the National Security.

Prison Riot

A riot at Sanaa Central Prison left at least three dead and four injured. Prisoners were chanting anti-government slogans, which led to an assault by guards. Authorities say they shot tear gas and fired over the inmates’ heads and acknowledge one prisoner was killed, but the prisoners report three fatalities and several serious injuries. The prison guards withdrew from the prison and are massed outside the gates along with security forces.

The prisoners have indicated they wished to make a peaceful surrender in a statement that read in part, “Prisoners of the Central Prison in Sana’a appeal to international organizations to intervene and save them from a real massacre which might take place today after guards retake control of the prison.”

Media Manipulation

The Yemeni state-owned ISP blocked al Masdar Online last week, the latest among dozens of independent Yemeni news websites to be blocked within Yemen. Internet access is strictly controlled by the state. Yemen Online was hacked by pro-regime operatives. Dozens of what appear to be government operatives have flooded pro-revolutionary Facebook groups. The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate detailed 53 cases of attacks on journalists including assaults, threats against their children, expulsion and in one case, arson.

“Beating up journalists is a blatant attempt by the authorities to prevent the Yemeni people and the world from witnessing a critical moment in Yemen,” Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division, said in a statement.

A Reuters report today quoting an individual in Sanaa who “heard” that in Aden southern protesters threatened to burn schools in Mallah and al Mansoura was hotly denied by dozens of residents in those neighborhood when contacted. The residents also pointed out that the state has forced school children to participate in pro-regime rallies for years without parental approval. It is well documented that students who refused were denied sitting for their exams along with other punitive measures.

Yemen’s history of crimes against civilians

The atrocities against protesters that have garnered global attention are a continuation of the pattern of Yemen’s inhumane treatment of its citizens since at least 2005. In 2009, human rights organizations began calling for an investigation into the Sana’a regime’s potential war crimes and crimes against humanity. The military actions during the Sa’ada Wars and with regard to the southern protest movement are well documented but did not draw condemnation from the Obama administration or the EU. Some of these habitual patterns include:

- Punitive denial of medical services to injured civilians

- Arbitrary arrests

- Incommunicado detention

- Shooting unarmed protesters

- Use of deniable proxies including tribesmen to harm citizens

- Shelling residential areas

- Denial of food as policy

- Denial of access by international humanitarian groups to internal refugees

- Targeting journalists and rights activists

- Torture in jail

Jane @ Examiner.com

Protesters killed by security forces were buried in a mass grave in Aden on February 27, a ranking Yemeni official confirmed today.

The grave site is on the eastern edge of the Salahu Deen military camp, near little Aden, and was first reported here last week.

The official said 15 protesters were buried together in an unmarked single grave about eight meters long, speaking anonymously due to the high risk of government reprisal.

On Friday, February 25 Yemeni security forces launched a broad assault in Aden resulting in twenty-two fatalities among residents who have been identified, a number likely to rise. Over 100 demonstrators were also wounded by gunfire. The deaths occurred in several locations across Aden in what appears a pre-planned onslaught of state violence in the governorate which had seen increasing numbers of anti-government protesters.

The official death toll is four. The state blamed opposition parties for the deaths.

Residents reported homes were strafed, and police shot directly into crowds, Human Rights Watch reported. Many protesters were arrested, some pulled from hospitals by security forces. Ambulances were blocked and the dead, dying and injured on the streets were pinned down by gun fire.

In an apparent effort to mask the death toll, Yemeni security forces raided hospital morgues in Aden and transported corpses to the Basuhaib military hospital in Tawahi. Medical sources at Basuhaib hospital confirmed the protesters bodies were later taken away by the military.

The burial took place in the early morning, Sunday, February 27 after the bodies arrived from Taqahi in two military trucks.

The state continues to withhold information from families regarding the identities of arrested protesters.

Rights groups have urged Yemen to halt assaults on peaceful protesters.

Dozens of reporters were beaten and harassed during the protests.

Tens of thousands gathered Friday, March 4, in a massive funeral march for Hael Waleed Hael, 18, that began in Mallah, Aden and ended at the Alqatee cemetery in Crater City. Mr. Hael was shot to death on Mallah’s main road during the assault on Aden.

Jane

will trigger more protests, lather rinse repeat. Update: the 16 arrested were ranking police officers who participated in the protests.

Yemen police arrest 16 anti-regime protesters AFP
ADEN, Yemen — Yemeni security forces arrested 16 protesters in Aden on Saturday, as thousands continued to demonstrate in the south demanding the fall of the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The anti-government demonstrators were nabbed as police dispersed protesters who were gathering to hold a sit-in outside Al-Nur mosque in Aden, police said. (Read on …)

the old governors were reassigned to the Shura council.

New governors swear constitutional oath
[05/مارس/2011]
SANA’A,March 05(Saba) – The newly appointed governors and the Shura Council’s member took on Saturday the constitutional oath before President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The newly appointed governors are Aden Governor Ahmed Mohamed Qatabi, Hodeidah Governor Akram Abdullah Atyah, Abyan Governor Saleh Hussein al-Zawari, Hadramout Governor Khalid Saeed al-Deni and Jawf Govenror Yahya Mohamed Ghobar.

Furthermore, the newly appointed member of the Shoura Council Salem al-Khanbashi also sworn the constitutional oath before the President.

President Saleh held a meeting with the new governors and urged them to double their efforts in this posts, directing them to work to address the citizens’ problems and issues in their

The massacre in Aden Feb 25-26 killed many. We previously identified 19 by name, and about half of the 122 wounded. With the addition of the three fatalities listed below, the new total is 22 killed. As earlier reported, bodies of dead protesters were collected from hospitals in Aden and sent to Basuhaib Military hospital in Tawahi. The new information is that early Sunday morning, Feb 27, the military buried some of the corpses stored at the Ba-Suhaib military hospital in one grave at a military camp in Salahu Deen just outside little Aden. Many protesters in Aden were arrested, some pulled wounded from hospitals. The state continues to withhold information from families regarding who is in state custody in jail.

1. Mohammed Ahmed Saleh
2. Tareq Khalid Alwan
3. Waseem Ali Taha

in Arabic: (Read on …)

Yemen Post

President Ali Abduallh Saleh dismissed on Tuesday governors of five provinces in Yemen’s southern and eastern provinces.
New decrees were issued appointing three of them members in Shura Council, and appointing the two others vices of two ministries. (Read on …)

Yemen is refusing to release names of dead and arrested in Aden, increasing stress on families. The following is a listing of the 19 killed in the February 25th- 26th massacre compiled by highly reliable sources. We initially reported 17 were killed, ( write up here) and the death total may rise again in coming days. The address refers to the individual’s hometown, not location of death. Update: Below is list of 69 wounded, a partial list and Arabic only.

no. -name- age- address

1. Mohammed Ali Baashan 19, Mansoora
2. Yaseen Ali Ahmed AlSuraihi 19, Mansoora
3. Fadel Mubarak Al-Khanshi 23, Mansoora
4. Aref Mohammed Ali 18 , Mansoora
5. Abdullah Mohammed AlBan, 27, Mansoora
6. Mokbel Mohammed Ahmed AlKazemi, 18, Khormakser (AlAreesh)
7. Abdul Hakeem Mohammed AlKaladi, 21, Mansoora (Omer AlMukhtar)
8. Hani Mohammed Haitham, 22, Khormakser (Alsaada St.)
9. Hameed Hussain Hameed, 23, Dar Saad
10. Gassan Ahmed, 18 , Al-Memdara
11. Ali Mahmood Nagi Ali, 23 , Sheekh Utman
12. Mohammed Muneer Khan, 15, Mansoora (Omer AlMukhtar)
13. Ahmed Zaki, 16, Shekh Uthman
14. Ayman Ali Hussain Al-Naqeeb, 20, Shekh Uthman
15. Hisham Mohammed Qaed, 25, , Shekh Uthman
16. Ali Abdulla AlKhulaqi, 15, Khormakser
17. Ahmed Sabri, 19, Lahj
18. Hussain Al-Gahafi, Lahj
19. Aref Mohammed Awad, 17 Mansoora

the names in arabic
. الشهداء الرقم الاسم العمر العنوان

1 محمد علي باعشن 19 عاماً المنصورة
2 ياسين علي أحمد السريحي 19 عاماً المنصورة
3 فضل مبارك الحَنَشي 23 عاماً المنصورة
4 عارف محمد علي 18 عاماً المنصورة
5 عبد الله محمد البان 27 عاماً المنصورة
6 مقبل محمد أحمد الكازمي 18 عاماً خور مكسر – العريش
7 عبد الحكيم محمد الكلدي 21 عاماً عمرو مختار
8 هاني محمد هيثم 22 عاماً خور مكسر – حي السعادة
9 حَميد حسين حَميد 23 عاماً دار سعد
10 غسان أحمد 18 عاماً الممدارة
11 علي محمود ناجي علي 23 عاماً الشيخ عثمان – السيلة
12 محمد منير خَان (موت سريري) 15 عاماً عمرو مختار
13 أحمد زكي 16 عاماً الشيخ عثمان
14 أيمن علي حسين النقيب 20 عاماً الشيخ عثمان – السيلة
15 هشام محمد قائد 25 عاماً الشيخ عثمان
16 علي عبد الله الخُلاقي (موت سريري) 15 عاماً خور مكسر – حي الجمهورية
17 أحمد صبري 19 عاماً لحج
18 حسين الجُحَافي لحج
19 عارف محمد عوض 17 عاماً المنصورة

Names of 69 of the wounded, there are an additional 53 wounded yet to be identified

1 سعيد غالب ناصر
•2 محمد غالب محمد عبدالله
3 عسكر علي عسكر
4 أيمن سلطان
5 وجدان صالح أحمد
6 علي محمد عبدالله
7 فضل الشرفي
8 راجي عطان
9 محمد أحمد ناصر
10 فضل محسن
11 خالد سالم عبدالله
12 حسن فضل علي
13 عماد محمد حمود
14 محمد خالد محمد عبدالله
15 سراج اليافعي
16 محمد محسن محمد
17 محمد الزيدي
18 وجدان طانجو
19 علي الزُبيدي
20 سالم أحمد سالم
21 غسان سعيد إسماعيل
22 سالم محمد علي
23 عبادي عُمر
24 هادي عبد القوي
25 رائد محمد عبدالرحمن
26 إبراهيم سيف محمد
27 سامي محمد عوض
28 صلاح عبد القوي
29 عبدالقوي ناصر أحمد
30 عبد الرحمن أحمد سعيد
31 أمجد محمد عبدالله
32 محمد أحمد أرشد عبدالله
33 عمار اليافعي
34 عمار علي مثنى
35 محد عوض الحنشي
36 عبد القوي عليوة
37 ثابت أحمد سالم
38 عفان سعيد إسماعيل
39 قائد محمد عبدالرحمن
40 حاشد عبد الرضي علوان
41 عماد عُمر حمادي
42 أحمد عبدالله أحمد
43 سالم جمال سالم محمد
44 حسين الحاج محمد
45 أحمد عُمر سيف مقبل
46 أحمد حسن محمد
47 محمد صبري
48 هشام محمد أحمد
49 أسامة عبد الدائم محمد
50 أصيل فيصل محمد
51 خالد سالم
52 محسن فضل
53 فضل علي صالح
54 محمد حسن محمد
55 أكرم محمد
56 محمد بن محمد صالح
57 وضاح حريري
58 ناجي عطاء علي
59 عبدالله فضل
60 حسين عبدالله باعقيل
61 محمد أحمد سالم
62 أمجد محسن
63 ثابت عبيد حازم
64 حاشد عليوة
65 جلال الغشمي المرزوقي
66 راجي محمد عبدالله
67 عوض الكازمي
68 أسامة مهدي العقربي
69 أياد فيصل الصبيحي

I try so hard not to curse and some days its really difficult. Al Masdar and very credible local sources are reporting that security forces collected the dead from Aden hospitals and moved them to Basuhaib Military hospital in Tawahi, controlled by the defense ministry. Security forces at the Basuhaib hospital refused to release the corpses to their families, as Yemeni authorities are attempting to disguise the scale of yesterday’s death toll.

Related: HRW

, YEMEN, FEB 26: The casualty toll from last night’s attacks on protesters in Aden is rising. This afternoon, we spoke to doctors from two out of three hospitals that received the victims last night. One hospital treated 29 wounded victims, one of whom died and two remain in critical condition. The wounds, according to the doctor, were mostly in the legs.
Two victims had been wounded by machine-gun bullets, the doctor said. (Read on …)

A report from the Jakarta globe identifies four dead in one protest in Aden yesterday and 40 injured, as government blames the protesters for the deaths. Also Houthis protested yesterday as well. Another report below in Arabic lists seven killed and 49 wounded last night. There are more bodies in refrigerators to be ID’d according to the note. Earlier 19 fatalities were identified killed in Aden and 124 injured from Feb 16-21.

The lying dogs deny any security forces were shooting protesters, instead they blame the southern movement. It would be funny if there weren’t so many killed and injured.

Saba: Yemen denies media reports on shooting protesters in Aden
ADEN, Feb. 26 (Saba) – A security source in Aden governorate denied on Saturday reports of mass media on shooting protesters in Mo’alla city of Aden by security forces on Friday night. “An armed group of separatists belong to what is called “the movement”, who fired aimlessly from some buildings the protesters, security men, electricity office’s employers and citizens”, the source said.

According to an AFP tally based on reports by medics and witnesses, at least 19 people have now been killed in almost daily clashes at anti-regime protests since they erupted on February 16. (Read on …)