Konflik berskala besar terkini di Yaman kini telah memasuki bulan keempat dan sambutan raya yang kedua dalam kalendar Islam.
Menurut PBB, pelarian kini mencecah 175,000 orang dan sentiasa bertambah.
Konflik berimplikasi luas ini walau bagaimanapun masih tidak menerima layanan seperti Palestin, Darfur dan konflik atau krisis lain yang mudah menarik perhatian umat Muslim.
Situasi di Yaman semakin menarik lebih ramai pemain dan mampu memburukkan keadaan di kawasan terlibat dan kawasan sekitar. Negara terlibat juga setakat ini telah menunjukkan cara yang salah dalam menangani situasi ini, seperti ditulis dalam satu komentar di akhbar Financial Times:
"The Saudi bombing of Houthi positions is adding fuel to the fire. This week, Iran’s joint chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi called Saudi attacks 'state terrorism' and Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh accused Iran of 'collusion in sin and aggression.' A group of Saudi clerics lambasted Iran for allegedly ;financing and arming' agents to spread Shia Islam across Sunni lands."The irony is that no one outside the Middle East believes that Iran has much to do with the Houthis. Officials in the west argue that although Iran sympathises with the rebels, there is no evidence of military or financial support.
"Maybe these outsiders are talking nonsense. But maybe Saudi Arabia is allowing its resentment of Iran to cloud its judgment over Yemen. The Houthi rebellion is, above all, a reflection of social, religious and political grievances by a group that feels marginalised and considers that the state has succumbed to radical Sunni Salafi ideology. The Houthis are not moderate – their commander says their 'cultural' platform is based on the slogans of 'God is Great, Death to America and Death to Israel.' But in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper, he also says that the rebels want an end to discrimination and government military action and not, as is often assumed, the reimposition of a Zaydi state (an imamate that ruled the capital Sana’a until a coup in 1962).
"The even greater irony in this conflict is that Saudi involvement is certain to aggravate the grievances and possibly prolong the fighting. The rising destruction, casualties and displacement of the population have fed the rebellion, widening its territorial scope and winning the rebels thousands of new recruits. 'The ultimate travesty is there is no way to militarily solve the problem – you need a humanitarian ceasefire and mediation,' says Christopher Boucek, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East programme. If stability is the aim in Yemen, then, as Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, argues, Saudi Arabia needs a policy that is neither 'throwing money' at the problem nor military intervention."
Selain media Arab Saudi dan Iran, media Barat ialah yang paling banyak memberi perhatian kepada situasi di Yaman, lebih daripada ruang yang diberikan oleh media di banyak negara Islam dan juga oleh parti-parti Islam.
Isu sejagat umat tidak sewajarnya hanya ditentukan dan ditakrifkan oleh kuasa-kuasa tertentu sahaja, sama ada Saudi atau Iran. Pemimpin-pemimpin negara Islam juga perlu mengemukakan sekurang-kurangnya cadangan untuk memulihkan konflik dan krisis yang melanda orang awam.
OIC yang kini berusia 40 tahun dan negara-negara kaya dan berpengaruh wajar mengambil peranan dalam hal ini.
Berita berkaitan:
1. Yaman dakwa Iran bantu Houthi.
2. Yaman tutup hospital Iran.
Labels: Agama, Politik, Timur Tengah