#600Days of siege & genocide: Twitterstorm calls for an end to Yemen conflict
Social media users have created a Twitterstorm to draw awareness to the war in Yemen. It has now been more than 600 days since Saudi Arabia intervened.
Don't spread #US / #Saudi lies about #Yemen funeral bombing @BBCNews. It's a war crime #600daysGenocidepic.twitter.com/xHIDMAdgcV
— فينوس ازال ال توشكا❤ (@venus_azall_rmr) November 13, 2016
We know the truth about #Yemen. Behave like true journalists @ReutersWorld. #600daysGenocide : Cover it now https://t.co/RLSlExkxmK
— الوية الصواريخ اليمن (@Abonsr55) November 13, 2016
Would you cover #600daysGenocide in #Yemen if it was led by Russia @SkyNews ?
— Get up Stand up (@RiseUp75) November 13, 2016
Break the silence pic.twitter.com/oGgI5A1xv5
The widespread use of #British cluster bombs is killing people in #Yemen : Cover it @ReutersWorld#600daysGenocidepic.twitter.com/DDZ0hSqi5R
— hsn (@princehsn2) November 13, 2016
Hello world We remind everyone we are reaching the most terrible anniversary: 600 days of war on Yemen
— Right word (@abcdaee198) November 10, 2016
Please join#Yemen#Election2016#UNpic.twitter.com/pm9G1EVqrD
#600days of #war in #Yemen for nothing serious just #SaudiArabia wants more blood & its #Arab 's slaves want more money#600daysGenocide#UN
— Massar (@belyemen) November 13, 2016
#Yémen🇾🇪 600 days Of Siege
— JusticePalestine🇵🇸 (@Esmeralda78210) November 13, 2016
Shame on you #ArabieSaoudite🇸🇦 #US🇺🇸 #UK🇬🇧
By ✏️ @LatuffCartoons#600daysGenocidepic.twitter.com/408s5YoJwO
600 days war on #Yemen
— THE MAESTROW (@sageralsurbi) November 13, 2016
600 days of blockade & bombing
600 days of sufering & resisting
600 lose @UN#600daysGenocidepic.twitter.com/ZiWZrLCBvc
#600days of starvation, fear, lack of drinking water, blockade, total darkness and mass inhumane genocides.#yemen#yemencrisis#اليمن
— Alaaddin mohammed (@Alaaddin1993) November 13, 2016
On Nov. 13th #tweetstorm
— Marwan Al-Munyfi (@marwan18) November 12, 2016
We'll show the entire #world what really happened after #600Days of #US- #Saudi led-collation bombardment of #Yemenpic.twitter.com/HrPv44k4mL
Using hashtags #600days and #600daysGenocide Twitter users shared images from the conflict and called for the US and the UK to take responsibility for their role in arming Saudi Arabia and failing to adequately condemn its attacks on civilians.
#Obama's $110,000,000,000 in arms to #SuadiArabia - why supporting slaughter in #Yemen with intel refuelling & even targeting #Warcrime#UShttps://t.co/UiQd1M9OFP
— Ronan Tynan (@RonanLTynan) November 11, 2016
Time to remember the fallen and those who never took up arms, such as all dead in #600DaysGenocide in #Yemen civilians in markets&schools- https://t.co/ccYruzhvzD
— Barbara Martin (@trustanddare) November 13, 2016
End US support of #SaudiWarCrimes, US must end military, tactical, logistical aid of all types in over #600Days of War on #Yemen#NotATarget
— Barbara Martin (@trustanddare) November 13, 2016
They described conditions in Yemen, imploring fellow Twitter users to imagine 600 days of violence and conflict.
Nov14 is #WorldDiabetesDay A thought 4 all diabetics in #Yemen that r dying &loosing sight & limbs due 2 d lack of insulin #600daysGenocide
— Eternal Yemen (@EternalYemenTO) November 13, 2016
#Saudi airstrikes target hospitals, schools, mosques, factories, food, markets #Yemen#600daysGenocide@SenBobCorkerpic.twitter.com/WP8nAL5IKi
— اليمن روحي (@rsaste43211) November 13, 2016
Can you Imagine #600DaysGenocide? Can you please imagine #600Days of daily grief and awful airstrikes?
— Sam Adam (@SamADam24) November 13, 2016
They're attacking ALL #Yemen-is.
How a cluster bomb works and why the munition is making Yemen's humanitarian crisis worse#600daysGenocidehttps://t.co/hpzvHV7m2e
— ُM - َNabِeelّ (@yamen307_m) November 13, 2016
Others pointed to the media, asking them why they haven’t covered Yemen in the same way Syria is covered.
Would you cover #600daysGenocide in #Yemen if it was led by Russia @SkyNews ?
— Get up Stand up (@RiseUp75) November 13, 2016
Break the silence pic.twitter.com/oGgI5A1xv5
We know the truth about #Yemen. Behave like true journalists @ReutersWorld. #600daysGenocide : Cover it now https://t.co/RLSlExkxmK
— الوية الصواريخ اليمن (@Abonsr55) November 13, 2016
The widespread use of #British cluster bombs is killing people in #Yemen : Cover it @ReutersWorld#600daysGenocidepic.twitter.com/DDZ0hSqi5R
— hsn (@princehsn2) November 13, 2016
Don't spread #US / #Saudi lies about #Yemen funeral bombing @BBCNews. It's a war crime #600daysGenocidepic.twitter.com/xHIDMAdgcV
— فينوس ازال ال توشكا❤ (@venus_azall_rmr) November 13, 2016
Calls for an arms embargo were shared across Twitter.
Attacks on MSF hospitals show need for embargo on all weapons 2 #Saudi#Yemen@SenBobCorker#600daysGenocide
— سامي عقلان (@nonan2006) November 13, 2016
Saudi Arabia first bombed Yemen in March 2015 after Houthi rebels, loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, forced Saudi-backed leader Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to flee the country.
a shame that @UN@UNGeneva are responsible of the famine that millions people in #Yemen are facing #600daysGenocidepic.twitter.com/K1RBOi3yde
— احمد عبد الله (@77ahm777) November 13, 2016
The Saudi-led coalition of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan has been accused of bombing thousands of civilians using weapons supplied by the US and the UK. A blockade has led to a humanitarian crisis as half the population is on the brink of famine.
