Turkey- Weak security institutions risk chaos: Yemen's Al Islah
Date
12/7/2015 6:42:57 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Yemen's government is not moving fast enough to restore the country's battered security and military institutions the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Al-Islah party has said.
"The slow pace of rebuilding Yemen’s security and military institutions puts the country at risk of further chaos and makes cities recently liberated [from the Shia Houthi militant group] likely to fall under the control of violent extremist groups" Al-Islah declared in a statement issued late Sunday.
The statement which was posted on the party’s official website went on to condemn the assassination earlier the same day of Major General Jaafar Mohammed Saad the governor of Aden province.
Saad was killed -- along with eight of his bodyguards -- when a car bomb went off near his convoy in Aden’s Al-Tawahi district.
Responsibility for the attack was subsequently claimed by the Daesh militant group.
"The current security vacuum has left space for armed groups to operate in and is harming efforts of the national army the [pro-government] popular resistance and the [Saudi Arabia-led] Arab coalition to liberate Yemen’s cities from the Houthis and their allies" Al-Islah declared in its Sunday statement.
Yemen’s ongoing security vacuum the party added "could lead to the emergence of new extremist militias which could serve the architects of the [Houthi] coup".
Al-Islah went on to call for the integration of Yemen’s "popular resistance" forces -- which support embattled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi -- into the country’s formal security and military institutions.
The party urged the government to "rehabilitate and train" these forces so they would be able to "maintain security and protect public and private property in Aden and in other liberated cities".
The statement concluded with the assertion that the fight against terrorism required "a national strategy in which all forces and components come together to confront this dangerous scourge".
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