March 26th marks nine years since the Saudi-led coalition started their brutal assault on Yemen. In that time, thousands of Yemeni civilians have been killed by Saudi bombs. The UN estimates that 377,000 war related deaths occurred by the end of 2021. Over 150,000 of these deaths were the direct result of the armed conflict In total the UK has supplied at least £28 billion worth of arms to the Saudi-led coalition attacking Yemen. The war in Yemen has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
Join us at 6pm on Tuesday March 26th outside Downing Street to stand in solidarity with the people of Yemen and commemorate all the lives unnecessarily lost in this brutal war.
We will hear from Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei from the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, Andrew Feinstein from Shadow World Investigations and Mayer Wakefield from the Stop the War coalition as well as playing a message from the Yemeni freelance journalist Ahmad Algohbary as we hold the people of Yemen in our thoughts and call for a sustainable peace in Yemen.