Yara
Though Saudi Arabia often makes headlines for bombing hospitals and killing civilians in their ongoing war against rebels in Yemen, the Western role in these human rights violations is seldom discussed.
But a new
video posted to Youtube from a ten-year-old girl living in the rebel capital of Sanaa, Yemen, hopes to challenge the perpetual attacks that have ravaged her country. Following the
breakdown of peace talks last month, Saudi Arabia has
repeatedly hit Sanaa with air strikes.
In a video she filmed in her bedroom on her mother's cell phone, the young girl, named Yara, recalls when the war started. In English, she explains how excited she was to attend a concert last March before her mother informed her a war against Yemen had begun, decimating
schools,
factories, and
homes. Many people lost their jobs, she remembers, including her father.
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