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While the Syrian conflict is plastered on the pages of most mainstream news outlets, Yemen has been met with indifference and, until recently, a virtual media blackout. Writing for Stop The War, Nawal Al-Maghafi sums up the reason for the silence of the Western media on the devastation:

“Unlike in Syria, the U.K. and U.S. are two of the primary causes of the problem in Yemen. Put simply, a coalition of the wealthiest Arab states have joined forces to bomb and starve one of the poorest, with the assistance of two of the world’s richest and most powerful powers, ” she wrote.

But thanks to campaign groups and humanitarian agencies, some details of the catastrophe began to trickle out towards the end of last year. Here in the U.K., we quickly discovered Britain has licensed £2.8m of arms exports to Saudi Arabia since the war began. In addition — and despite years of ministerial denials — a six-month long Vice investigation recently uncovered British involvement in the covert U.S. programme in Yemen, including secret drone strikes.

The destruction of clinics and hospitals and the growing need for medicine, food, and water have sparked international outcry, especially over civilian casualties — yet further evidence of Britain’s collusion with the Saudi killing machine came to light this week. Despite overwhelming evidence that Saudi forces have broken international humanitarian law, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by human rights organisation, Reprieve, has uncovered more of Britain’s covert role in the conflict. The latest eye-opening discovery of U.K. complicity and collusion in Yemen has revealed that senior British military officers have been training Saudi forces.

The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has consistently maintained their personnel are not involved in “directing strikes, selecting targets or conducting operations” in Yemen, but the latest revelations demonstrate how close the cooperation has really been.

Omran Belhadi, a case worker at Reprieve, said the claims by ministers that Britain is helping the Saudi government to abide by the law are disingenuous.

“Extensive British ‘targeting training’ has done nothing to prevent the bombing of schools, hospitals and weddings, and the deaths of thousands of Yemeni civilians. The U.K. claims its support to the Saudi-led campaign is necessary to combat terrorism – but killing innocents doesn’t make us safer. Ministers must urgently reconsider the U.K.’s support for these abuses,” Belhadi said.