Anti-Saleh Protesters Rally in Taiz Province

By Fatik Al-Rodaini

Taiz, Apr 6, 2011- Tens of thousands of anti-Saleh protesters took to the streets in Yemen's southern province of Taiz demanding the immediate ouster for the embattled Yemen's president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Eyewitnesses told the Yemen Post that the protesters condemned the use of force against peaceful demonstrators in all Yemen's province and they accused the governor of Taiz, Hamod Al-Sofi and the manger of security apparatus of committing massacres against protesters in Taiz province three days ago.

At the huge rally in which tens of thousands of youths, women, children, journalists, and activists protesters participated in they chanted anti-Saleh slogans demanding the fall of President Ali Abduallah Saleh's regime.

Yesterday, in Taiz, one protester was killed in an attack by security forces in which live bullets were used.