Yemen on the Brink

Anti-government protesters perform evening prayers at Taghyeer (Change) Square, where protesters have been camping for ten months in opposition to the Saleh regime, in Sanaa, December 4, 2011.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

Sanaa, December 3, 2011
A protester holds up a mock gallows with a defaced poster of Yemen's outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a demonstration to denounce violence in the southern city of Taiz, in Sanaa, December 3, 2011. The banner reads: "The people want the butcher to be executed."

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