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Fighting displaces 65,000 Yemeni students
The Houthi rebels in the northwestern Saada province forced the students to flee their homes as well as their schools, the official Yemeni news agency SABA reported.
The rebels allegedly seized teachers, initially forcing them to teach their ideology, and took over 63 schools stationing guerrillas to fight government troops, the news agency said.
The conflict, nearly two weeks after Yemeni security forces said they killed 100 rebels, is part of intensified fighting since the army began "Operation Scorched Earth" Aug. 11.
Some 150,000 people have fled their homes in the region since Shiite tribesmen launched an insurgency in 2004.
The Education Ministry, working with UNICEF and other local authorities, has outfitted places in refugee camps where students can learn, the news agency said. Houthis, also known as the Believing Youth, are a reputed Zeidi Shiite insurgent group fighting Yemeni authorities and pro-government tribesmen.
The Yemeni government claims the rebels want to overthrow it and impose Shiite religious law. The rebels say they are defending their community against discrimination and what they call aggressive government acts.
U.S. and Saudi officials fear the growing fighting will create instability that al-Qaida, whose militancy is growing in Yemen, could exploit to carry out attacks in Saudi Arabia, which borders its north.
Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, has barred journalists and diplomats from traveling independently to Saada.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/22/2009
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10-22-2009 16:45
normajun wrote:
students removed from schools temporarily
as there is active war in their country, schooling must stop for the present, and segregation of the anti and pro gov't side must be done, to protect lives.How to do it is our part to PRAY, that the people will be safe from the rebels, who kill them, or threaten them.Let us PRAY for them , brethren.the whole world needs our PRAYERS, which are more powerful than any weapon, for it is God who acts and moves, from our prayers.Let us do this every day.God and His saints are sadly interceding for us all, but we have to do our part-PRAY HARDER!
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