naLyndal Rowlands, Inter Press Service News Agency
Makore maviri mushure mekunge UN Arms Trade Treaty yapinda musimba zhinji dzehurumende dzaitsigira chibvumirano ichi dziri kutadza kuchitsigira, kunyanya kana zvasvika pakukonana muYemen.
"Panyaya yekushandiswa, kuodzwa mwoyo kukuru iYemen," Anna Macdonald, Director of Control Arms, sangano revanhu rakazvipira kuchibvumirano, akaudza IPS.
"Kuodzwa mwoyo kukuru inyika dzaive pamberi pekudaidzira chibvumirano - uye zvechokwadi vachiri kuchiritsigira sekubudirira kukuru mukubvisa zvombo pasi rose nechengetedzo - vakagadzirira kutyora nekuramba vachitengesa zvombo zvavo kuSaudi Arabia, ” akawedzera.
Mubatanidzwa wepasi rose unotungamirwa neSaudi ndiwo wakakonzera kufa kwezviuru zvevanhu muYemen, uye Saudi Arabia inozivikanwa kuti yakatyora mutemo wekubatsira vanhu nekubhomba zvinangwa zvevanhu, kusanganisira zvipatara.
Kupokana muYemen - nyika ine hurombo zvakanyanya kuMiddle East - yakadzinga vanhu vanopfuura mamirioni matatu kubva payakatanga munaKurume 3. according kuUN.
Zvakadaro nyika zhinji, kusanganisira United Kingdom, United States neFrance, dzakasaina kuArms Trade Treaty dzinoramba dzichitengesa zvombo kuSaudi Arabia, kunyangwe izvi zvichityora zvisungo zvavo pasi pechibvumirano.
Parizvino nyika makumi mapfumbamwe dziri nhengo dzeUN ndidzo mapato ari muchibvumirano ichi, icho Macdonald anoti chiverengero chakati wandei chechibvumirano chitsva uye chakaoma kunzwisisa, asi chinangwa chinoramba chiri chepasi rose, anowedzera kudaro. Chibvumirano chakatanga kushanda musi wa 90 Zvita 24. Zvisineyi nepo UK neFrance dzakatendera chibvumirano ichi, US yakasaina chibvumirano chete.
Mapato ari muchibvumirano ichi anosungirwa kuona kuti zvombo zvavanotengesa hazvizoshandiswa kutyora mutemo wepasi rose wekubatsira vanhu, kuponda rudzi kana kupara mhosva kune vanhu.
Kutengeswa kwezvombo kweUK kuSaudi Arabia kwave kunetsa muparamende yeBritain.
Zviremera zveSaudi nguva pfupi yadarika zvakasimbisa kuti vakashandisa UK-yakagadzirwa zvikwata zvemuYemen.
"Umbowo hwekushandiswa kwemauto emapoka ehondo hwavepo kwerinenge gore, asi UK haina kufuratira nekupokana nazvo, ichivimba nekuramba kwemubatanidzwa unotungamirwa neSaudi," akadaro Macdonald.
"UK iri kuenderera mberi nekufuratira huwandu hweruzivo rwekutyorwa kwekodzero dzevanhu uye mitemo yehondo muYemen, (zvichangobva kuitika) zvinotojekesa kuti haagoneke sei chinzvimbo chakadaro."
Iyo UK iyo yakatengesa zvombo kuSaudi Arabia muna 1989 yakabva yasaina kuCluster Munitions Convention, iyo inorambidza kutengeswa kwemasumbu emunisheni nekuda kwekusarura kwavo, Macdonald akawedzera.
Zvichakadaro mishumo ichangoburwa inoratidza kuti United States iri kudzikisira zvimwe zvekutengesa kwayo zvombo kuSaudi Arabia.
"US yakataura kuti ichamisa kutengeswa kwemabhomba emuchadenga anotungamirwa kuSaudi Arabia nekuti vaona" matambudziko ehurongwa, asingaperi nekunangwa kweSaudi Arabia" inotaurwa neUS yakakonzera huwandu hwevanhu vafa muYemen," akadaro. Macdonald.
Zvisinei akacherechedza kuti zvakaoma kuziva kuti izvi zvichave nei pamatongerwo ari pasi pehutongi hwaTrump Republican.
Maererano ne tsvakurudzo rakabudiswa neStockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) vatengesi vezvombo vatatu vepamusoro pasi rose iUnited States, Russia neChina.
India, Saudi Arabia neChina ndidzo dziri pamusoro pekutenga zvombo munyika nhatu.
