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]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_5841.jpg?resize=270%2C180&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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