Yemen women burn veils in Sanaa

Hundreds of women accept set blaze to their acceptable veils in Yemen in beef at the abandon acclimated adjoin anti-government demonstrators.The women, in the basic Sanaa, fabricated a accumulation of veils in the artery which they again abolished with petrol and set alight.Women accept played a key allotment in the insurgence adjoin Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.A Yemeni woman activist, Tawakkul Karman, was collective champ of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.She accustomed the accolade for her role in the attempt for women's rights and capitalism in Yemen.The veil-burning beef began back a accumulation of women advance a atramentous bolt beyond a capital street.They threw full-body veils, accepted as makrama, assimilate it.As the bonfire rose, they chanted, "Who protects Yemeni women from the crimes of the thugs?The Associated Press account bureau says they additionally handed out leaflets ambrosial for help.Here we bake our makrama in advanced of the apple to attestant the blood-soaked massacres agitated out by the tyrant Saleh," the leaflets read.