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Online activists took to twitter on Sunday night to mark four years since the start of the Saudi-led war against Yemen.
The activists heeded the call of Yemen’s Ministry of Information to launch the twitter campaign in order to expose crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition throughout the past four years.
The campaign was launched under the English-language hashtag #4YearsOfUSWarOnYemen.
Among the participants was the leader of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee (SRC) Mohammed Al-Houthi who shared statistics concerning the level of devastation across the war-torn country.
The war in Yemen has not only killed tens of thousands of people. It has also devastated the country and left its economy in tatters.
In 2015, Saudi Arabia launched an international coalition in a bid to forcefully reinstate former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates has conducted airstrikes on Yemeni soil. Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, Jordan and Egypt have also contributed to the operations.
The Middle Eastern nation has also been hit by a cholera outbreak deemed the worst in the world by the UN. It estimates that roughly 600,000 people have contracted the disease since last year and more than 2,000 people have died from it.
The UN called it the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world."
Source: Yemenwatch.net
