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To end the crisis in Yemen, stop arming the Saudi dictatorship
Seven years ago Saudi Arabia began a brutal onslaught that has been widely described as causing the world’s worst humanitarian disaster – a crime not possible without at least £6.5 billion of British weapons, explains PAYAM SOLHTALAB
Campaigners from Amnesty International carrying a batch of five giant dummy missiles to Downing Street, to highlight the government'™s refusal to halt exports of British-manufactured arms to Saudi Arabia, despite the clear risk that they could be used to commit war crimes in Yemen

THIS weekend will mark the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the onslaught by a coalition of countries, headed by Saudi Arabia, against Yemen and its people.

It is a war that has exacted a particularly horrific toll on the country and its population and which continues to do so, unchecked as it is by the international community and powers that be.  

This bombardment of Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition has utterly devastated critical infrastructure across the country, leaving it in ruins and on the brink of a catastrophe of epic proportions.

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