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(AFP)
7 April 2012
SANAA — Southern separatists hacked the website of Yemen’s official Saba
news agency on Saturday, posting a portrait of Ali Salem al-Baid, the prominent
exiled south Yemen leader.
The home page of the sabanews.net website was replaced by one showing
flags of South Yemen and messages glorifying the former country, which merged
with the north in 1990.
“We will stamp on all those who
ignore the people of the south,” said one message, while others threatened to
hack or even bring down other websites of the central government in Sanaa.
Baid, who was vice president of Yemen when he declared independence in
1994, went into exile two months later when northern troops entered Aden.
Many residents of south Yemen, which was independent from 1967 when the
British withdrew until it was united with the north in 1990, complain of
discrimination by the Sanaa government in the distribution of resources.
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