Yemen’s Houthis involved in self-defense: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Catherine Shakdam, the program director of Shafaqna Institute of Middle East Studies, and Lawrence Korb, a former assistant to the US secretary of defense, to discuss the suspension of Yemeni peace talks.
Shakdam says the Houthi Ansarullah fighters are engaged in an act of “self-defense” against the aggressors and are not violating the ceasefire in the country.
“Now when it comes to breaching the so-called ceasefire, the Saudis have done thousands of breaches and no one seems to be paying attention,” she says.
The analyst argues that the Yemeni resistance movement has defeated the “radical militants” on the political front and is now pushing them out of Yemen, and that is why the Saudi-backed groups are backing out of the peace talks.
She says Saudis, who started the deadly aggression against Yemen more than a year ago, have trapped themselves in Yemen and cannot think of an “honorable escape.”
Shakdam says Houthis only agreed to sit down for the peace talks to open up a diplomatic way to solve the crisis, just like what Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently agreed to negotiate to end the years-long conflict in his country.
They did so “to hopefully change the mind of the international community and show good faith and prove to the world that what they are about is democracy… and diplomacy,” she says.
Korb, for his part, blames the Houthis for the collapse of the talks. He also says the problem of al-Qaeda will not be dealt with unless calm returns to Yemen.
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