30 Yemen Rebels Lose Their Heads
WASHINGTON, Sept lt>The State Department announceu to-day that 30 of the ringleaders m the revolt in the small Red Sea kingdom of Yemen last winter had been beheaded. • , , j Dispatches received bv the department said that the leaders were brought, in chains, to the mountain stronghold of Haja, where they were put to death by the executioner s sword, by order of Prince Ahcmed, the eldest son of the murderd Yehia. The first to be beheaded was abdullah el Wazir, who seized the Iman’s throne after Yehia was slam, gangster fashion, outside his palace in Sanaa last February. Wazir was defeated and captured by Prmce Ahcmed’s warriors only three weeks after he mounted the throne. Prince Abrahirn, renegade son of the Iman and close collaborator with Wazir, died mysteriously of a “heart attack” prior- to the executions.
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Grey River Argus, 17 September 1948, Page 5
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