mo4ch:>British elite reap benefits of Saudi-led war on Yemen – hunger striking labour cllr to RT | Mo4ch News

UK councils and the military sector are profiting from the war in Yemen and the ongoing Saudi-led campaign in the impoverished state, Labour councilor Maya Evans told RT. Evans even went on hunger strike in protest.Speaking to Afshin Rattansi on Going Underground, she said that, while the two week hunger strike may seem “severe,” the situation in Yemen has reached a state of “dire emergency.”Due to the Saudi-led military campaign – ongoing since 2015 to reinstate ousted leader Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi – some “14 million are in a state of famine, five million at risk from cholera, and 2.2 million have malnutrition.”The councillor and anti-war activist says she felt compelled to resist as both a citizen and elected representative of the UK, which has been arming the Saudi Kingdom despite the bloody war. Within the first year of the bombardment, the UK provided £3.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, 30 times more than they had before the conflict broke out.She pointed out that while t…