Anti-Drone Protests in Yemen
You won’t see much media coverage of these anti-drone protests that took place in Yemen on November 2, 2011. I commend these individuals for peacefully coming together to resist tyranny, empire, and war.
November 2011 Anti-Drone Protest in Yemen
You won't find these pictures from the media. These pictures cover an anti-drone protest that took place in Yemen on November 4, 2011. The October 14, 2011, U.S. assassination of Abdulrahman Al-awlaki, a 16 year old Yemeni-American citizen, was a particularly intense event that sparked these protests. (See "The Assassination of an American Teenager" by David Kretzmann for more information on the assassination of Abdulrahman Al-alwaki.)
These photos are courtesy of the Abdulrahman Anwar Alawlaki – A crime we’ll never forget Facebook page.
[...] there are thousands of people in Yemen protesting our drone program. How many of these people will be turned to violence against the United States, [...]
[...] November 2, 2011, hundreds of Yemeni individuals peacefully came together to protest U.S. drone attacks in Yemen. I highly encourage you to observe some of the pictures and footage [...]
[...] Awlaki and suspected magazine publisher Samir Khan (both US citizens) were supposedly killed in a US air-strike on Yemen last year, where Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are based. The true extend of Al Qaeda’s operations in Yemen however are disputed. Country officials have called the threat “exaggerated” and that any action against terrorism in the region should be that of the Yemen authorities, not the West [14]. Despite this the US regularly conduct drone attacks that are killing innocent civilians [15]. Protests by citizens have gone unnoticed by the West [16]. [...]
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