People's Committees (Yemen)

Popular committees are armed groups established in Yemen. They are composed of members of various Yemeni tribes, mainly for the purpose of assisting the Yemeni army during the Yemeni uprising and, previously, during the late Yemeni civil war. Such groups were first established in 2010 in the province of Shabwa. Their popularity has increased as the war continues. During the first days of the Yemeni Revolution in 2012, committees were also created in the Abyan province to support the army in the face of AQAP militants in South Yemen, and, by 2015, popular resistance committees had spread to other provinces of Yemen.

Historically, the Yemeni army was a permanently required the support of tribal militias or what has become known as the People's Committees in internal and external wars, and when the 26 September revolution in the north of the national state did not inherit all the national army of UK, and some members of the army fled and stood with the imams deposed to try to regain power, and the revolution in need of protection, issued a statement in 1963, "conscription law," however, is not recruiting, according to this law, and varied recruitment methods by brown tribal difference, it was the citizens of the "central regions" that weakened the tribal links in Taiz, Ibb, in particular, volunteer individually, has been established so-called "National Guard" to accommodate them, and the formations of regular, subject "to Hearerkih" military (mattresses) series, and gets its members on a monthly salary, and wearing military uniforms and undergoing military training.

The citizens of the northern areas with tribal ties were recruited for the war under the leadership of their elders. It has been now established as the "People's Army" to accommodate them. In spite of naming them, thusly, it remained outside the regular army structure and led by a band of tribal elders, including members of the Senate who also hold official positions in the military and civilian organs of the State.

The tribesmen and elders realize that the continuation of the political roles determined in the light taken by the state of the procedures in the field of building a strong professional army of the institutionalized, so have contributed to the foreclosure military institution, and keep it in a state of weakness, which made the state a permanent need for the use of the Popular Army-tribal has not banana been a strong army capable of building to fight conflicts and wars successfully, so the army did not ask him in all battles fought after the Royal war Republic stopped in 1970, was the militias tribal "irregular forces" have an important role in the northern army support against army South, through two wars between the powers of two halves of Yemen in 1972 and 1979. Vhyuh tribes are the ones who paid the Northern power to go to war in 1972 and began tribal militias war initiated by the army. In the presidency of Judge Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, military entered into the policy battles starting from the conflict over the establishment of the National Council, where the Armed Forces presented what is known as correcting the Armed Forces decisions, demanded the patch off the funds provided by the state for the sheikhs of tribes officers, Viogustus 1971 resigned government Justifying Prime Minister Ahmed Mohamed Noman resignation of the government for its inability to meet their obligations due to the depletion of tribal elders to the state budget. In December 1972 resignation of Aini government enhancer because of demands that have not responded with a solution to the Shura Council, which is dominated by the sheikhs and resolve the interests of tribal affairs and stop sheiks budget.

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