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Protesters 'elements of coup': Yemeni president
Thursday February 17, 2011 08:47:30 AM,
IANS
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Sanaa: Yemeni
President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for 33 years,
dubbed the anti-government protesters as "elements of the coup",
the official Saba news agency reported.
"The young people who stage protests are trying to spread unrest
across the country and they are elements of the coup," Xinhua
quoted Saleh as having said.
"I'm not stick to the power, power is available to anyone, but
through ballot boxes," he said while addressing thousands of his
tribal supporters in northwest province of Hajja Wednesday.
"The time of coups and chaos is over," Saleh said. "Whoever wants
to take the power, he must take it through the ballot boxes, not
through chaos in streets," he added.
Saleh, who has been facing massive protests and demands for his
resignation, announced last week that he would step down after his
term expires in 2013 and promised not to hand over power to his
son.
On Wednesday, two people died of wounds from gunshot during
clashes between anti-government protesters and the police in the
country's southern city port of Aden. Several anti-regime rallies
violently rattled other major provinces simultaneously, leaving at
least 14 injured.
Yemen struggles to cement a fragile ceasefire deal with a Shiite
rebellion in the north and to quell a growing separatist movement
in the south while the resurgent Al Qaeda group are on the rampage
across the country.
Northern Shiite rebel commander Abdulmalik al-Houthi in a
statement posted on the internet Tuesday ordered his armed groups
to support the Yemeni people against President Saleh if the
"revolution breaks out".
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