By Nasser al-hamami
After Al-Houthi took control of Amran governorate, Yemen’s northwest and killed dozens of Army’s soldiers along with their leader, the outcomes of the National Dialogue conference (NDC) that Yemenis- following the 2011 uprising- have accepted the UN-GCC initiative to enter a comprehensive national dialogue and it lasted more than a year are now in danger and the process to achieve it is questionable.
The UN Security Council issued a statement calling upon all the armed parties and Houthi’s fighting in Amran and Aljouf governorates to refrain violence and halt all armed activities and allow for the legal government to exercise all its responsibilities and duties and without allowing to any party to enter its nose with governmental local authorities or impose its own agenda. Hotels movement always says that it defends itself and tries to help injustice people, but in reality it seeks hard to take over many governorates and to at the end of the day enter Sana’a, the capital of Yemen and rule the whole country based on its own agenda and ideology. Yemen faces a very challenging process in history and if the international community is just watching and issuing statements, it would fall into a sectarian and civil war the same what is happening in Iraq and Syria. The country faces, moreover, an economic crisis which is the most serious one in Yemen’s history. There is no oil, gas, electricity nationwide and security circumstances are also very bad as the assassinations may turn back in full swing, but this time, if it might get back, it would target the high-ranking officials in government and this means the country will go into bloodshed widely.
President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi has lectured at the Army faculty on the occasion of graduation a new patch. He congratulated all graduates and wished them every success in their future careers, confirming that new bloods must come and take the responsibility of imposing the security and stability in the entire the country. “What happened to Amran is unacceptable and illogical and it does not target any party or army unit itself, it rather targets clearly and vividly the country, its army and security forces and all the state related- civil institutions”, he emphasized.
President Hadi re-confirmed that all what happened is a target to spoil the political transition and the achievement of National Dialogue Conference’s outcomes.” We will not allow to any party to impose his will by force and the NDC outcomes are a reference to all Yemenis who victimized themselves, hoping to get a better future.
President and after meeting with the supreme security and army committee, reviewed all measures and ordered the committee to raise the maximum alarm to face any expected emergency. He also sacked two senior military commanders following Houthi’s control of the Amran Governorate as reforming measures. Many reports stated that there was any reason of sacking these two senior generals. However, this move by president comes after Houthi captured the largest army unit and killed its leader – not confirmed yet by the ministry of defense or the presidency- along with hundreds of soldiers.
The worse is that the humanitarian situation which is already the most serious and worst one nationwide deteriorated day after day and people are dying, whether in the fighting or due to lack of basic services.
Thousands of people have escaped from Amran because of recent violence occurred. The number of displaced persons is increasing and there are no actual figures to confirm this conflicting press and official numbers. Violence in Amran received many condemnations and warnings from the international community represented by Sana’s based- group of the ten ambassadors who issued a statement, supporting President Hadi to keep on the achievement of NDC outcomes and tries his best to make Yemenis’ dream achievable to have a civil and democratic state. They also called on all parties involved in the fighting to withdraw and halt all the armed activities and refrain control of government institutions.
On his part, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, Mr. Johannes Van Der Klaauw, voiced his concerns as saying that the situation in Yemen is a dangerous and 14.7 million of Yemen’s population out of 52 million are in need badly to a humanitarian assistance. Additionally, he alarmed his concern by calling all the armed parties involved in the fighting to allow people to move to secure and stable places.
