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PROTESTS are set to take place today in more than a dozen towns and cities across the country to demand the British government “end its complicity in the war on Yemen.”
People joining the national day of action on Saturday, organised by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (Caat), hope to raise awareness about arms companies in their local areas “fuelling the war on Yemen.”
Ahead of the protests, Amber Rose-Dewey from Caat said: “People are taking to the streets to illuminate what is often unspoken and unknown; that war starts on our doorstep; that arms companies fuelling the war on Yemen exist in our communities; and that the UK government is making billions from arms sales despite the devastating human cost in Yemen.”
The British government had sold at least £23 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Gulf state launched its bombing campaign on its neighbour eight years ago, according to Caat.
The conflict has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
