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PPU white poppy campaign to be dedicated to Yemenis
A destroyed house in Sanaa, Yemen
[Ibrahem Qasim/Creative Commons]
THE Peace Pledge Union (PPU) announced today that this year’s white-poppy campaign for Remembrance Day will be dedicated to the people of Yemen.
The PPU’s white poppies represent remembrance for victims of conflict, a commitment to peace and a challenge to the glamorisation of war.
The PPU said that Remembrance Day, marked on November 11, risks becoming a “festival of forgetting” if the war against Yemen and other conflicts are ignored by the commemorations.
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