AhlulBayt News Agency

source : AFP
Monday

15 June 2009

7:30:00 PM
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Genocide of Shias by Yemen Government;

More than 80 civilians martyred in Yemen raid.

More than 80 people have been killed in an air raid on a camp for displaced people in northern Yemen, witnesses say.

According to witnesses, many of those martyred in the raid - which took place near the border with Saudi Arabia - were women, children and old people.

The attack was carried out by a "warplane (that) targeted displaced families who had gathered under trees in the area of Adi," in Amran province -- scene of heavy fighting between the army and the Shia group, the witness said.

Government officials denied the strikes had taken place, but a civil servant in the local government confirmed the attack.

Fighting has intensified since the Yemeni army launched an operation targeting the Shia group in mid-August.

The New York-based group, Human Rights Watch, has called on the Yemeni government to investigate the reported attack on displaced people.

 

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