Scores are dead in Yemen, where security forces are battling Islamist forces led by Badruddin Al-Houthi in and around the northwestern town of Saada. A group of opposition parties is calling for the nation's pariliament to immediately launch an investigation into "extra-judicial killings" by government forces in the operation. (Arab News [2], April 9) The fighting has left at least 70 this week, and 170 over the past month. The rebellion's leader, also rendered Badr el-Deen al-Hawthi, is said to be son of Hussein al-Hawthi a "renegade cleric" who launched the rebellion adnd was killed by government forces in September. (VOA [3], April 8)
