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Hundreds of Yemeni Protesters Flocked to Parliament Square chanting "Save Yemen. All Black Lives Matter. We stand united as One."

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Hundreds of Yemeni protesters marched from BBC Studios in Oxford Circus to Parliament Square, where they joined thousands BLM protesters who gathered as part of the All Black Lives Matter movement that continues to spread across the UK and the world.

Billions of pounds worth of weapons have been licensed by the UK to Saudi Arabia since start of Yemen war. Fighter jets, bombs and missiles made in Britain are believed to have been used in the war.

One Yemeni protester said, "the people of Yemen have come together to fight against the injustices in our country and to condemn the Saudi & UK over war crimes and genocide in Yemen. We are here to remind people and that All Black Lives Matter and we will stand united as one to say this must stop now".

According to the Yemen Data Project, more than 17,500 civilians have been killed and injured since 2015, and a quarter of all civilians killed in air raids were women and children. More than 20 million people in Yemen are experiencing food insecurity; 10 million of them are at risk of famine. The United Nations has called it the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

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