Fake missiles at London’s Downing St. in Saudi arms sale protest

fake missiles to Downing Street on Friday to protest Britain’s continued supply of arms to Saudi Arabia

 

Campaigners delivered fake missiles to Downing Street on Friday to protest Britain’s continued supply of arms to Saudi Arabia despite concerns they are being used against civilians in Yemen.

Amnesty International activists wearing white mechanics’ boiler suits delivered five replicas of the 1.8-meter-long Pave way-IV weapons used by British-supplied Saudi jets outside Prime Minister David Cameron’s office.

“Ministers need to stop burying their heads in the sand and immediately suspend arms sales for the Saudi war machine,” said Amnesty’s UK director, Kate Allen.

The Saudi-led coalition began bombing rebels in Yemen in March 2015 to support President Abed rabbo Mansour Hadi, in a campaign that UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday said had killed 3,218 civilians.