Hundreds of
thousands of southern Yemen 's people attended the funeral of "Faris Tamah" who
was killed by the police in a police
station.
The procession
started in Aden – the
largest city of the south- and ended in Al-Habilein where he was buried. And
protesters raised the flags of the former South Yemen and reiterated hectoring slogans of taking
revenge for killing an unarmed and manacled civilian in the custody of Al-Mualla
police station in Aden .
Attendees
also raised the American and British flags side by side with former South Yemeni
flag, reiterating slogans demand the "Northern occupation to leave".
The
procession extended from Aden to Al-Anad area, in lahj province, to reach about
forty kilometers long, while cars of attendees from Yafie and Dali aligned to
join the procession in the north of Al-Habilein city.
The
procession was led by a number of the Southern Movement's leaders and sheikhs, among them
the brigadier "Mohammed Saleh Tamah", "Dr. Nasser Al-Khabaji", "Salah
Al-Shanfarah", "Shalal Ali Shaei", "Radfan Saeed", "Dr. Abdu Al-Matari", the
lawyer "Aref Al-Halemi", "Auad bin-Auad Al-Salahi", and
others.
"Faris
Tamah" was arrested and killed in the custody of Al-Mualla police station.
Listening to the revolutionist singer "Abood Khawaja" in Abyan coast - Aden was behind his arrest
and death by the police's fire. Relatives of Faris stated that they have found
traces of torture in his body.
"Faris
Tamah" (26 years) is from Mash'alh in Yafie district and lived in Al-Habilein,
worked as an expatriate in Saudi Arabia , and murdered when he was in Aden while
he was spending his vacation.
On the other
hand sources in the Southern Movement declared that troops of security forces at
the checkpoints those lay on the northern part of Aden have arrested several
attendees when they were coming back from the funeral, and they keep a bus and
its passengers who were going back to Abyan province.
Names of prisoners
are still unknown except a prisoner called "Saif Salem Abu Faris" and he is one
of the Southern Movement's activists in Abyan province.
