Ndi Lyndal Rowlands, Inter Press Service News Agency
Zaka ziwiri kuchokera pamene mgwirizano wamalonda wa UN unayamba kugwira ntchito, maboma ambiri omwe amatsutsana ndi mgwirizanowo sagwirizana nawo, makamaka pankhani ya nkhondo ku Yemen.
"Ponena za kukhazikitsa, kukhumudwitsidwa kwakukulu ndi Yemen," a Anna Macdonald, Director of Control Arms, bungwe lachitukuko lomwe lachita mgwirizanowu, adauza IPS.
"Chokhumudwitsa chachikulu ndi mayiko omwe anali patsogolo pakuitanitsa mgwirizano - komanso omwe akuwatsimikizirabe ngati kupambana kwakukulu m'ndende ndi chitetezo chadziko lonse - tsopano akukonzekera kuchiphwanya ichi polimbikira kugulitsa malonda ku Saudi Arabia, "Adatero.
Mgwirizano wapadziko lonse wotsogozedwa ndi Saudi ndi omwe wapha anthu masauzande ambiri ku Yemen, ndipo Saudi Arabia ikudziwika kuti idaphwanya malamulo othandizira anthu pomenya bomba lomwe anthu akumenya, kuphatikizapo zipatala.
Nkhondo ku Yemen - dziko losauka kwambiri ku Middle East - yasamutsa anthu opitilira 3 miliyoni kuyambira pomwe idayamba mu Marichi 2015 malinga ku UN.
Ngakhale mayiko ambiri, kuphatikizapo United Kingdom, United States ndi France, omwe alembetsa ku Arms Trade Treaty akupitiriza kugulitsa zida ku Saudi Arabia, ngakhale kuti izi zikuphwanya malonjezo awo pansi pa mgwirizano.
Panopa dziko la 90 likulumikizana ndi mgwirizano, umene Macdonald akunena ndi chiwerengero chokwanira cha mgwirizano watsopano ndi wovuta, koma cholinga chake chimakhalabe padziko lonse. Panganoli linayamba kugwira ntchito pa 24 December 2014. Komabe pamene UK ndi France agwirizana panganoli, US adangosayina panganolo.
Ogwirizanitsa mgwirizanowa akuyenera kuonetsetsa kuti zida zomwe amagulitsa sizigwiritsidwe ntchito pophwanya lamulo lachidziwitso, kupereka chiwawa kapena kuchita zolakwa za anthu.
Ku UK kugulitsa zida kwa Saudi Arabia wakhala akukangana kwambiri mu Parliament ya Britain.
Akuluakulu a ku Saudi posachedwapa adatsimikizira kuti agwiritsa ntchito makampu a ku Britain ku Yemen.
"Umboni wa magulu ophatikizapo magulu a magulu amatha kukhalapo kwa pafupifupi chaka chimodzi, koma a UK adanyalanyaza ndikutsutsa, ndikudalira m'malo mwa kutsutsana kwa a Saudi," adatero Macdonald.
"UK ikupitilizabe kunyalanyaza zambiri zakuphwanya ufulu wa anthu komanso malamulo ankhondo ku Yemen, (zomwe zachitika posachedwa) zikuwonekeranso momveka bwino kuti izi ndizosatheka."
Ku UK komwe kunagulitsa zida ku Saudi Arabia ku 1989 yakhala ikulembera ku Cluster Munitions Convention, yomwe imaletsa kugulitsa magulu a masango chifukwa cha kusasankhidwa kwawo, Macdonald adawonjezera.
Pakalipano malipoti a posachedwapa amasonyeza kuti United States ikutseketsa malonda ena ku Saudi Arabia.
"A US adanena kuti izi zidzathetsa kugulitsa kwa mabomba okwera ndege ku Saudi Arabia chifukwa adawona" zovuta, zomwe zimachitika ndi Saudi Arabia "zomwe a US amanena kuti zakhala zikupha anthu ambiri ku Yemen," adatero Macdonald.
Komabe adanena kuti n'zovuta kudziwa momwe zotsatirazi zidzakhudzira ndondomeko zomwe zili pansi pa ulamuliro wa Trump Republican.
Malinga ndi kafukufuku lofalitsidwa ndi Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) omwe akutumiza zida zankhondo padziko lonse lapansi ndi United States, Russia ndi China.
India, Saudi Arabia ndi China ndi anthu atatu apamwamba kwambiri omwe amalowetsamo nkhondo.
