But that all changed when government forces fired on peaceful protesters. A Yemeni demonstrator remembers that day.
![Children join a protest in Change Square, Sana’a, in August 2014 before president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi left the country [Laura Silvia Battaglia/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_5841.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Laura Silvia Battaglia
Laura Silvia Battaglia is a freelance award-winning journalist, living between Italy and Sanaa (Yemen). She has worked in Middle Eastern conflict zone... s since 2007 and has reported from difficult environments about criminality, human rights issues, trafficking, terrorism and the trade of weapons.
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