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YEMEN’S REBEL-CONTROLLED interior ministry today announced the “killing” of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, as a video emerged showing what appeared to be Saleh’s corpse.
“The interior ministry announces the end of the crisis of militias and the killing of their leader and a number of his criminal supporters,” an anchor said on the rebels’ official Al-Masirah television, referring to armed supporters of Saleh.
Saleh on Saturday announced the end of his alliance with the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, with whom he has jointly ruled the capital for three years.
The statement came shortly after a video began to circulate on social media showing what appeared to be a dead Saleh, wrapped in a floral-print blanket with a severe head injury.
The 75-year-old strongman ruled Yemen for more than three decades, until his ouster under popular and political pressure in 2012.
- © AFP 2017.
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Oh dear – I knew when he asked the Saudi’s for talks without discussing it with his rebel group that it was going to end badly. What an awful mess the ME is.
@Austin Rock: Hmmmm and who drew the lines for those borders?
@Mary Murphy:
The Sunni v Shia ME power struggle pre-dates the lines or borders that were drawn up by the British.
Sunni vs Shia in all these proxy wars US backing Saudi and Russia backing Iran seems to be back to the cold war….With lots of innocent Muslims and Christians getting killed or becoming refugees….
A disastrous ending indeed for a man who was known for his shrewdness and extreme cunning for more than three decades.
@Ahmed Lagha:
who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.
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