Sudan dismisses a Yemeni military student who chanted the Houthi "scream"
English - Tuesday 10 November 2020 الساعة 07:02 pm
Khartoum, NewsYemen:
The War College in Khartoum dismissed a Yemeni student a few days ago, after he shouted the well-known "scream" of the Houthi militia in the college’s training yard during the morning queue, according to what Al-Ayyam newspaper quoted diplomatic sources in Khartoum and Riyadh as saying.
The student has a kinship relationship with Lieutenant General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, and according to the newspaper, high-ranking military mediations intervened from the offices of the Red Vice President and Defense Minister Lieutenant General Muhammad al-Maqdashi to persuade the Military Academy to backtrack on the decision.
Sudan is an active member in the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia for years against the pro-Iranian Houthi group in Yemen.
One of the sources said that the Sudanese authorities arrested the Yemeni student and expelled him from the Military Academy.
The student, identified by the sources as symbols (A.K.), belongs to the Al-Hada Directorate in Dhamar Governorate, one of the most important strongholds of Iran's arm in the country.
According to the source, the student was sent at the expense of the recognized Yemeni Ministry of Defense, among the last batches two years ago.
Sudanese sources confirmed that the Minister of Defense in the legitimate government, Lieutenant General Muhammad Al-Maqdashi, "sent a letter to the Yemeni military attaché in Khartoum, Ahmed Al-Shaanaa, requesting him to quickly review the leadership of the Sudanese War College and cancel the decision to dismiss the student. By a call from the office of Vice President Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, informing him of the deputy's directives to work on returning the student to the Military Academy.
In the context of the development of the government's responses and position on the issue, diplomatic sources in the Yemeni Foreign Ministry considered what happened as something that goes beyond logic and reason.
The sources showed details and other information about the student’s identity, and said that he is the grandson of Major General Ali al-Kulaibi, the military attache at the Yemeni embassy in Jordan, “who receives a monthly salary from the legitimacy and another from the Iranian arm authority in Sanaa.
The information reveals the student’s relationship with the deputy, explaining that he is the grandson of Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar on the side of one of his daughters, and his father was killed in the famous incident in Sana’a in 2011 CE, and the case was then settled with three items: the first of which was the payment of one billion riyals from the state for the blood money of the dead man, and the promotion of the father of the deceased to the rank of major general staff of War, and his appointment as a military attaché in Jordan for life, while enjoying all the privileges and prerogatives of the position.
