Campaign against arms trade (CAAT) wondering about killing Yemenis

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After the Saudi-led air strikes hit the wedding party on Yemen’s Hajja , why is UK still arming Saudi Arabia? Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) asked.

Over 20 people in Yemen lost their lives on Sunday as Saudi forces hit a wedding. reports put the death toll at 88.

Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade said: “Yemen is now in its fourth year of the war, and the bombardment is getting worse.

He also criticized Theresa May Saying that “she has said she wants the UK to play a positive role on the world stage”, adding that “so why is her government still arming and supporting Saudi atrocities? It’s time for her to put the lives of Yemeni people above the interests of arms companies.”

Amnesty International has slammed the United States, Britain and France for their continued arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The UK-based rights group said the arms sales have been an “enormous harm to Yemeni civilians” over the course of the war.

In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its regional allies — mainly the united Arab Emirates and Jordan — started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people later, the war has yielded little to that effect.