Local Editor
Thousands of human rights activists in several European capitals and US cities organized solidarity rallies with the Yemeni people to stop the Saudi military campaign and lift the economic siege imposed by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen.
The rallies took place on Sunday in Stockholm, Berlin, Paris and New York, raising banners and slogans that demanded stopping the terrible massacre, lifting the siege imposed on Yemenis by the Saudi aggression.
The rallies came to mark the second year anniversary of the Saudi war against Yemen.
Saudi Arabia began its deadly campaign against Yemen in late March 2015. The strikes were meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The war has drawn widespread international condemnation.
More than half of Yemen’s 22 million people are currently living at emergency levels of food insecurity and need urgent relief – especially in remote rural areas that are often overlooked by humanitarian schemes.
An estimated 12,000 have been killed and nearly 20,000 others injured since Riyadh launched the airstrikes. The Saudi aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s infrastructure.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
