iLMu2lautan – PBB adalah untuk memilih duta baru ke Yaman
selepas Jamal Benomar meletak jawatan di tengah-tengah kritikan dari Arab
Saudi. Penderitaan awam semakin meningkat dalam negara itu, dengan
beratus-ratus terbunuh dan untuk hidup mereka berpuluh-puluh
ribu melarikan diri.
Benomar, seorang diplomat Maghribi yang telah
ditugaskan untuk memudahkan peralihan kuasa di negara ini pada tahun 2011
selepas pemberontakan Spring Arab, "telah melahirkan minat untuk berpindah
ke tugasan lain," PBB mengumumkan pada hari Rabu. Ia berkata penggantinya
akan dinamakan tidak lama lagi. Reuters memetik seorang pegawai PBB tanpa nama
sebagai berkata bahawa diplomat Mauritania Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed akan
menggantikan Benomar.
Diplomat itu mengundurkan diri di bawah tekanan
daripada beberapa pemain Timur Tengah, terutamanya Arab Ararbia, yang berkata
usaha mendamaikan beliau telah gagal. Pada 26 Mac, Arab Saudi melancarkan
kempen pengeboman terhadap Yaman pemberontak Syiah Houthi, yang bersekutu
dengan bekas Presiden Yaman, Ali Abdullah Saleh, dan mengambil kawalan swathes
besar di negara ini.
Pengganti Saleh, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi, yang
telah dipilih untuk tempoh 2 tahun pada tahun 2012, secara rasmi meletak
jawatan pada bulan Januari hanya untuk menarik balik peletakan jawatannya
selepas melarikan diri ibu negara Yaman pada bulan Februari. Beliau pergi ke
Arab Saudi dan meminta bantuan ketenteraan untuk memerangi Houthis.
UN Envoy
to Yemen Resigns as Civilian
Hardships MOUNT . . .
The UN is to choose a new envoy to Yemen after
Jamal Benomar resigned amid criticism from Saudi Arabia. Civilian suffering is
mounting in the country, with hundreds killed and tens of thousands fleeing for
their lives.
Benomar, a Moroccan diplomat who was tasked to
facilitate power transition in the country in 2011 after the Arab Spring
uprising, “has expressed an interest in moving on to another assignment,” the
UN announced on Wednesday. It said his successor would be named soon. Reuters
cites an anonymous UN official as saying that Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould
Cheikh Ahmed will replace Benomar.
The diplomat stepped down under pressure from
some Middle East players, particularly Saudi Ararbia, who said his peacemaking
effort was a failure. On March 26, the Saudis launched a bombing campaign
against Yemeni Shia Houthi rebels, who allied with former Yemen president, Ali
Abdullah Saleh, and took control of large swathes of the country.
Saleh’s successor, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who
was elected for a two-year term in 2012, formally resigned in January only to
withdraw his resignation after fleeing the Yemeni capital in February. He went
to Saudi Arabia and requested its military assistance to fight against the
Houthis.
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Serangan udara Saudi dan pertempuran jalan
antara pemberontak dan penyokong setia Hadi telah membunuh sekurang-kurangnya
364 orang awam, Pesuruhjaya Tinggi PBB untuk Hak Asasi Manusia Zeid Raad
al-Hussein mengumumkan minggu ini. Pengeboman rosak atau musnah berpuluh-puluh
bangunan awam, termasuk hospital, sekolah, lapangan terbang dan masjid.
Lebih 121,000 Yaman telah pelarian oleh
permusuhan, menurut Pejabat PBB bagi Penyelarasan Hal Ehwal Kemanusiaan.
"Rakan kongsi Kemanusiaan menyediakan
bantuan, termasuk air, sanitasi dan perkhidmatan kesihatan, tetapi sambutan
yang dikekang oleh rasa tidak selamat terus tinggi disebabkan oleh serangan
udara dan berjuang di atas darat," kata jurucakap pejabat ini Jens Laerke
berkata.
Riyadh menegaskan bahawa kempen pengeboman akan
terus, berkata ia telah agak berjaya.
"Ia sangat-sangat berjaya. Malah, ia sedang
berjalan di luar matlamat awal, "Adel al-Jubeir, Arab Duta Besar ke
Amerika Syarikat memberitahu media. "Rakan-rakan kami di Amerika Syarikat
telah memberi sokongan dari segi perisikan dan logistik, dan untuk itu kami
amat menghargai. Saya tidak pernah mendengar mana-mana pegawai Amerika Syarikat
memberitahu saya bahawa operasi tidak berjalan lancar."
Di ibu negara Yaman penunjuk perasaan Sanaa
berpiket kedutaan PBB, menyeru untuk menamatkan pengeboman Saudi.
"Negara kita sedang dimusnahkan. Dan mereka
memberi hak kepada Arab Saudi untuk meneruskan serangan mereka di Yaman. Dari
awal adalah tidak munasabah, "kata aktivis hak asasi manusia Amatsalam
Naji, yang mengambil bahagian dalam tunjuk perasaan, memberitahu RT. "Jika
mereka mahu menyerang seseorang atau sekumpulan mereka boleh pergi kepada
mereka secara langsung, tetapi tidak menyerang seluruh negara."
Majlis Keselamatan PBB mengundi sekatan senjata
terhadap Houthis, tetapi gagal untuk memanggil untuk menamatkan kempen Saudi.
Saudi airstrikes and street battles between
rebels and Hadi loyalists have killed at least 364 civilians, UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein announced this week. The
bombings damaged or destroyed dozens of public buildings, including hospitals,
schools, airports and mosques.
Over 121,000 Yemenis have been internally
displaced by the hostilities, according to the UN Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs.
"Humanitarian partners are providing
assistance, including water, sanitation and health services, but the response
is constrained by continued high insecurity due to airstrikes and fighting on
the ground," the office’s spokesman Jens Laerke said.
Riyadh insists that its bombing campaign will
continue, saying it has been rather successful.
“It has been very-very successful. In fact, it
is proceeding beyond its initial goals,” Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Ambassador to
the US told the media. “Our friends in the US have been very supportive in
terms of intelligence and logistics, and for that we are very appreciative. I
have not heard any US official tell me that the operations were not proceeding
well.”
In the Yemeni capital of Sanaa protesters
picketed the UN embassy, calling for an end to the Saudi bombings.
“Our country is being destroyed. And they are
giving the right to Saudis to continue their attack on Yemen. From the
beginning it was unreasonable,” human rights activist Amatsalam Naji, who
participated in the protest, told RT. “If they want to attack a person or a
group they can go to them directly, but not attack the whole country.”
Persengketaan di Yaman telah rosak ekonomi sudah
rapuh negara termiskin Arab. Sana'a telah mengalami pitam biasa. Syarikat gas
asli Yaman, anak syarikat minyak Perancis Jumlah gergasi, menutup
operasinya di wilayah Shabwa pusat yang kaya dengan minyak minggu ini.
The hostilities in Yemen have damaged the
already fragile economy of the poorest Arab country. Sanaa has been suffering
from regular blackouts. The Yemeni natural gas company, a subsidiary of the
French oil giant Total, shut down its operation in the oil-rich central Shabwa
province this week.
