SANAA - Tens of thousands of protesters marched in the Yemeni capital on Monday, calling on the United Nations to resolve the country's political crisis and force President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign.
The demonstration came a day after the parliamentary opposition Common Forum said it would support a stronger UN role to bring an end to months of violence and political deadlock that have plagued the country.
"Oh world, why are you silent while the people of Yemen are getting killed?" the protesters chanted as they marched out of Change Square in central Sanaa, the base camp for the democracy movement.
"We are sending a message to the UN Security Council asking them to put pressure on Saleh and the remnants of his regime to leave power," a protest leader, Mohammad al-Assal, told AFP.
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