The yemenis are accustomed to the weapons. Even before the overlap of conflicts experienced since the beginning of the century, rare was the house without a rifle or the man without a yanbia, the dagger that has traditionally symbolized his honor. But an arbitrator directing a football match to shots of Kalashnikov it is too much even for the shattered Yemen. And yet the tweeters yemenis have caused these days a bitter smile to spread a video in which you see just that.
A group of men find a moment of rest around a ball. In the eyes of the viewer is not clear who plays on each team, but soon it becomes clear who is the referee. In the absence of a whistle, the man used the Kalashnikov to point out the faults. At a certain point, even you have to insist with a burst because the players ignored his admonition and continue playing as if nothing happened.
The game takes place in a village of Shabwa, a province in southeastern Yemen, under the control of pro-government forces, but in the remaining strongholds of the ISIS and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Both groups have tried to exploit the civil war that has plagued the country for almost four years to try to gain ground, although the US has continued bombing their positions from drones.
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The violence that surrounds the yemeni makes it especially eye-catching the sports exercise, complicated in addition by the clothing of the players. Unlike the men of the north, the south does not wear the typical robe Arabic, but the maawiis, a rectangular cloth that is wrapped around the waist, in the style of a sarong, and then on itself to hold, with a shirt or t-shirt for the top.
From the beginning of the month, the UN tries to organize peace talks between representatives of the internationally-recognised Government and the rebel Huthi, who was kicked off the power to the president Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi at the end of 2014. Their standoff since then, with the support of a coalition of arab, headed by Saudi Arabia (the pro-government) and Iran (the insurgents) has left half of the 28 million yemenis on the brink of famine.
