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Le street artist yéménite Murad Subay a dévoilé à Paris une fresque dénonçant le conflit au Yémen et les ventes d’armes françaises à l’Arabie saoudite. Une œuvre coup de poing, dans la continuité des séries engagées dont il recouvre les murs de son pays depuis 2011.
À Paris, une fresque pour dénoncer les ventes d’armes dans le conflit au Yémen
Publié le 2019-11-19 Modifié le 2019-11-19 à 17:31
Ce mardi matin, à Paris, l’artiste yéménite Murad Subay a dévoilé une fresque géante pour attirer l’attention sur la guerre qui se déroule dans son pays et pour dénoncer les ventes d’armes de la France aux belligérants.
Sur un mur de Paris, Murad Subay met la dernière touche à son oeuvre. À coups de bombes de peinture, l’artiste yéménite, actuellement en résidence en France, a dessiné trois immenses corps désarticulés en noir et blanc, sur fond rouge.
« C’est une oeuvre intitulée “La dernière danse des morts”, qui essaie de montrer, à travers l’art, les effets de la guerre sur la population. Et c’est aussi pour envoyer un message. Il y a ce texte écrit au-dessus : “Sur le corps des Yéménites passent la guerre, l’hypocrisie internationale et les armes” ».
La vente d’armes pointée du doigt
À côté de l’oeuvre de Murad Subay, sont affichés 250 000 noms de personnes qui ont signé des pétitions pour que la France arrête de vendre des armes aux belligérants.
« À l’occasion de cette oeuvre artistique éphémère qui est dans la rue et qui va interpeller les Parisiens, c’est l’occasion pour nous aussi de déposer les pétitions qu’on a réunies depuis plusieurs mois, à plusieurs ONG, explique Aymeric Elluin, d’Amnesty International. On a plus de 250 000 signatures appelant Emmanuel Macron à cesser les ventes d’armes à l’Arabie saoudite et aux Émirats arabes unis, qui sont parties au conflit ».
La guerre au Yémen dure depuis 5 ans. Elle a fait des dizaines de milliers de morts et provoqué une grave crise humanitaire.
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Une fresque pour le Yemen.
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PARIS — Three dangling bodies painted against a blood red background shocked passersby in central Paris on Tuesday after a Yemeni artist unveiled a mural to denounce French arms’ sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in his homeland.
The three-metre (10 ft) high mural entitled “Last Dance of the Dead” was created by Murad Subay. He started painting when the conflict in his country broke out in 2014 to raise awareness on arbitrary arrests before taking his brush to the bombed out rubble in the capital Sana’a.
“This is inspired from real stories of people who died in the war and I am trying to convey how war has affected the people,” Subay, who fled to France 18 months ago and is part of the Artist Protection Fund (APF), which provides relief and safe-haven to artists at risk.
France is among the world’s leading arms exporters with its sales to Saudi Arabia last year rising 50% despite the government calling for an end to the conflict in Yemen.
Paris says its arms sales are governed by strict procedures that are in line with international treaties. President Emmanuel Macron claimed for the first time in May he had received guarantees from Saudi and the United Arab Emirates that French weapons were not used against civilians.
“We’re seeing a change in the public language, but what we’ve been asking for over the last two years is an end to arms sales,” Aymeric Elluin, advocacy officer at Amnesty International France, told Reuters.
At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen’s civil war and millions displaced, according to the last available figures from the United Nations in 2016. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a database that tracks violence in Yemen, said in October around 100,000 people have died since 2015.
(Reporting by John Irish; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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PARIS (Reuters) – Three dangling bodies painted against a blood red background shocked passersby in central Paris on Tuesday after a Yemeni artist unveiled a mural to denounce French arms’ sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in his homeland.
The three-metre (10 ft) high mural entitled “Last Dance of the Dead” was created by Murad Subay. He started painting when the conflict in his country broke out in 2014 to raise awareness on arbitrary arrests before taking his brush to the bombed out rubble in the capital Sana’a.
“This is inspired from real stories of people who died in the war and I am trying to convey how war has affected the people,” Subay, who fled to France 18 months ago and is part of the Artist Protection Fund (APF), which provides relief and safe-haven to artists at risk.
France is among the world’s leading arms exporters with its sales to Saudi Arabia last year rising 50% despite the government calling for an end to the conflict in Yemen.
Paris says its arms sales are governed by strict procedures that are in line with international treaties. President Emmanuel Macron claimed for the first time in May he had received guarantees from Saudi and the United Arab Emirates that French weapons were not used against civilians.
“We’re seeing a change in the public language, but what we’ve been asking for over the last two years is an end to arms sales,” Aymeric Elluin, advocacy officer at Amnesty International France, told Reuters.
At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen’s civil war and millions displaced, according to the last available figures from the United Nations in 2016. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a database that tracks violence in Yemen, said in October around 100,000 people have died since 2015.
Reporting by John Irish; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise
من قلب مدينة باريس “رقصة الموتى الأخيرة”
أهدي هذا العمل لكل الأبرياء الذين فقدوا حياتهم ولأسرهم، في هذه الحرب التي اكلت الأخضر واليابس وكل ما استطاع اليمنيين ان يبنوه خلال السبعة العقود الماضية.
جداريتي “رقصة الموتى الأخيرة” والتي نفذتها في منطقة “المارين” وسط مدينة باريس. يرافقها نص باللغة الفرنسية “على أجساد اليمنيين، تمر الحرب، النفاق الدولي وأسلحته”.
ضمن تعاون فني مع الثمان المنظمات الفرنسية الأتية ” أمنستي، اوكسفام، سام اوف اس، اكشن اغينست لفام، كير، أكت، ميديسن دو موند، و كرايزس ان اكشن”.
شكرا لكل من ساهم في إنجاح هذا العمل ولكل الحضور الجميل
From the heart of Paris “The Last Dance of the Dead”
I dedicate this mural to all the innocent people who have lost their lives and to their families, in this war that has destroyed everything Yemenis have been able to build over the past seven decades.
The “Last Dance of the Dead” mural, I installed it on a wall in the Marin district at the centra of Paris. Accompanied by a French text “on the bodies of Yemenis, war, international hypocrisy and its weapons, pass”
It is an artisitc collaboration with the following eight French organizations: Amnesty, Oxfam, Sum of us,
Action Contre La Faim, Care, Act, Medicine du Monde, and Crisis in Action.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this work and to all the beautiful attendees.
Murad Subay 