Yemeni protesters pull at and stamp on an American flag during an anti-US demonstration in Sana’a. (File Photo)
Yemeni people are protesting outside the house of President Abd-rabuh Mansur Hadi to denounce the US assassination drone attacks in their country.
Angry protesters shouted slogans outside the president’s house in the capital Sana’a on Monday, denouncing US drone strikes in the country.
The US has increased the number of drone strikes dramatically, with 53 taking place in 2012. This figure is three times higher than the figure for a year before.
The US regularly carries out assassination drone attacks in Yemen, which is located on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula and among the poorest in the region.
On Tuesday, three people were killed in a US assassination drone attack in the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf, near the Saudi border.
According to AFP news agency, Tuesday’s attack brings to at least 32 the number of people killed in US drone strikes in nearly a month in Yemen.
Washington uses its assassination drones in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia, claiming that they target the terrorists. The attacks, however, have mostly led to massive civilian casualties.
The United Nations has censured the US drone attacks as targeted killings, stressing that the raids flout international law. Reports, however, say that the CIA is seeking to expand its covert drone attacks in Yemen.
Yemenis have held several anti-US rallies across the country over the past months and have called on their government to cut all ties with Washington over the deadly airstrikes.
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