Borneo@WORK - Dalam
usaha untuk memecahkan kebuntuan dalam konflik yang sedang berlaku di Yaman,
Arab Saudi dilaporkan mula melatih beratus-ratus anggota suku Yaman untuk
melawan Houthis di atas darat, manakala Riyadh terus kempen pengeboman itu.
"Anda
tidak boleh memenangi peperangan terhadap Houthis dari udara - anda perlu
menghantar tentera darat dalamnya, tetapi sekarang ada satu program untuk
melatih pejuang puak di sempadan," kata sumber tentera yang berpangkalan
di Doha biasa dengan perkara itu kepada Reuters.
Menurut
satu lagi sumber rasmi Yaman, kira-kira 300 pejuang telah berjaya kembali ke
Yaman selepas mendapat latihan Saudi. Mereka didakwa menghantar daerah Sirwah
di wilayah Marib pusat untuk bertarung Houthis di kawasan itu. Menurut sumber
unit yang baru dilatih berjaya melonjakkan pemberontak kembali.
Jurucakap
gabungan Arab Saudi gagal sama ada mengesahkan atau menafikan laporan.
"Kami
sentiasa mengesahkan bahawa kami membantu rintangan dan kumpulan yang popular,
tentera yang setia . . . tetapi kita tidak boleh pergi ke butiran di mana,
bagaimana, berapa banyak," kata Brigadier Ahmed Asseri.
SAUDI
Arabia training TRIBAL Ground Force
in Yemen - report
In
order to break the stalemate in the ongoing conflict in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has
reportedly started training hundreds of Yemeni tribesmen to fight the Houthis
on the ground, while Riyadh continues its bombardment campaign.
“You
cannot win a war against the Houthis from the air – you need to send ground
forces in, but now there's a program to train tribal fighters on the border,” a
Doha-based military source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
According
to another Yemeni official source, some 300 fighters have already managed to
return to Yemen after getting Saudi training. They were allegedly send the
Sirwah district in the central Marib province to battle Houthis in the area.
According to the source the newly trained unit managed to push the rebels back.
Saudi
Arabia’s coalition spokesman failed to either confirm or deny the reports.
“We
always confirm that we are helping the resistance and the popular groups, the
loyal army . . . but we cannot go into details on where, how, how
much,”Brigadier Ahmed Asseri said.
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Latihan
yang diterima oleh puak Yaman di Arab Saudi didakwa termasuk senjata ringan dan
ilmu nasihat taktikal. Menurut sumber Reuters lain, United merancang untuk
meningkatkan penggunaan unit itu untuk melawan rintangan Houthis itu.
Rhiayad
dilaporkan mengumpul semua pemimpin puak yang setia kepada presiden digulingkan
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, yang melarikan diri ke Arab Saudi, untuk menyatukan
kuasa-kuasa puak mereka terhadap orang-orang Houthis.
"Arab
Saudi mahu bersatu pemimpin puak dalam mesyuarat ini tetapi perasaan ini adalah
bahawa tidak ada harapan untuk itu," kata sumber Yaman di Riyadh kepada
Reuters. Rupa-rupanya delegasi suku kaum kelihatan lebih prihatin melawan
unsur-unsur jihad di Yaman di samping pembangkang Houthi ini.
"Arab Saudi telah membuat keputusan bahawa mereka akan meningkatkan keadaan yang
tidak stabil dengan menyediakan senjata kepada kumpulan pembangkang, kumpulan
yang secara tradisional pembangkang kepada Houthis," Ajamu Baraka, pakar
Timur Tengah kepada RT.
Di atas
tanah di Yaman, kuasa dan tentera unit Syiah Houthi berjuang setia kepada bekas
Presiden Ali Abdullah Saleh dapat mengawal kawasan tengah dan selatan.
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The
training received by the Yemeni tribesmen in Saudi Arabia allegedly includes
light weapons and tactical advice knowledge. According to another Reuters
source, the Kingdom plans to boost deployment of such units to fight the
Houthis resistance.
Rhiayad
is reportedly gathering all tribal leaders loyal to the ousted president
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who fled to Saudi Arabia, to unite their tribal forces
against those of the Houthis.
“Saudi
Arabia wants to unite tribal leaders in this meeting but the feeling is that
there's not much hope for that,” a Yemeni source in Riyadh told Reuters.
Apparently the tribal delegations seem more concerned battling the jihadi
elements in Yemen in addition to the Houthi opposition.
“The
Saudis have decided that they are going to intensify the unstable situation by
providing arms to an oppositional group, a group that has been traditionally
oppositional to the Houthis,” Ajamu Baraka, Middle East expert told RT.
On the
ground in Yemen, the Shiite Houthi fighting force and army units loyal to
former president Ali Abdullah Saleh are in control of central and southern
areas.
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Pertempuran
masih berterusan kepada beberapa bidang utama. Di Aden, yang Houthis adalah puak
menarik yang disokong oleh tentera udara yang dipimpin Saudi. Di bandar yang ke-3
terbesar Yaman, Taiz, Houthis berjuang pejuang Islam Sunni. The Houthis dan
sekutu mereka telah juga berjuang kedua-dua Islam dan suku kaum tempatan di
Marib dan di wilayah Shabwa.
Kuasa-kuasa
di Yaman yang Arab Saudi mempersenjatai boleh bertukar jihadi, Baraka
mengatakan, kerana mereka mempunyai beberapa", Whabis, kecenderungan Islam
tradisional," yang adalah "ideologi, yayasan Islam utama Al
Qaeda."
"Satu-satunya
kuasa yang semakin akibat daripada konflik ini sebenarnya Al-Qaeda,"
katanya pula kepada tekanan.
Sementara
itu, serangan udara yang berterusan di seluruh negara pada hari Rabu,
mensasarkan pasukan Houthi di Aden, Saada, Hajja, Taiz, Ibb dan Bayda.
The
fighting is ongoing on a number of major fronts. In Aden, the Houthis are
engaging tribesmen who are supported by Saudi-led air forces. In Yemen’s third
largest city, Taiz, Houthis are fighting the Sunni Islamist fighters. The
Houthis and their allies have been also fighting both Islamists and local
tribesman in Marib and in Shabwa provinces.
The
forces in Yemen which Saudi Arabia is arming can turn jihadi, Baraka says, as
they have some “traditional, Whabis, Islamic leanings,” which is the “main
ideological, Islamic foundation for Al Qaeda.”
“The
only force that is gaining as a consequence of this conflict is in fact
Al-Qaeda,” he went on to stress.
Pertempuran
di Yaman terus walaupun konflik semua pihak yang sedang bersedia untuk
mengadakan rundingan damai.
"Arab
Saudi mempunyai objektif yang berkaitan dengan kepentingan Israel yang pada
dasarnya untuk mengekalkan naratif yang Houthis adalah kuasa proksi Iran,"
kata Baraka, sambil menambah bahawa dasar itu juga sesuai dengan Washington.
Sejak
pengeboman Arab dipimpin bermula pada 26 Mac, lebih daripada 1,000 orang,
termasuk kira-kira 551 orang awam terbunuh, Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu berkata
minggu lepas. UNICEF berkata sekurang-kurangnya 115 kanak-kanak adalah antara
orang mati.
The
fighting in Yemen continues despite all sides of the conflict being willing to
hold peace talks.
“The
Saudis have an objective which is connected to the interest of Israel which is
basically to perpetuate the narrative that Houthis are the proxy force of
Iran,” Baraka said, adding that such policy also suits Washington.
Since
the Saudi-led bombings started on March 26, more than 1,000 people, including
an estimated 551 civilians have been killed, the United Nations said last week.
UNICEF said at least 115 children were among the dead.
