[Yemen Post] The military committee on Monday started discussing a comprehensive strategy to restructure the Yemeni armed and security forces, which divided during the 2011 popular uprising, Saba reported. The strategy, suggested by the higher military academy, calls for putting an immediate end to the division of the armed and security systems, armed conflicts and rebellion movements as well as imposing the rule of law across the country, according to Saba.
When the uprising escalated in early 2011, key military units defected to the mass anti-regime protests including the first armored division and since then they have been divided.
At a meeting, the committee, formed under a power-transfer deal reached in November on military affairs and maintaining security and stability, discussed visions to restructure and modernize the armed and security systems including those for re-stationing units according to a national, integrated strategy in line with the defense policy of the republic of Yemen, Saba said.
The discussion coincided with efforts by President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi to put an end to the rebellion of the third elite republican guard brigade. The commander of this brigade, Tariq Saleh, a nephew of ex-leader, has refused to give up his post under a presidential decree.
The international community, especially the ten countries sponsoring the transition deal, has expressed concern
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s about this brigade, which ex-president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Saleh signed the deal, which saw him relinquish power after 33 years in office, in return for immunity from prosecution and half representation in the current power-sharing government.
The UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar has led mediations to convince the commander to give up, but his attempts went in vein.
In the meantime, the committee plans to remove all security and armed disorders including roaming with guns in the country, especially in main cities, in five months, as the armed forces is continuing intensified battles against Al-Qaeda gunnies in the south.