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Yemen carnage: 'Stop arming Saudi Arabian regime,' CAAT tells UK govt
[RT] Anti-arms trade activists are demanding that the UK stops peddling arms to Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , as the corpse count in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... passes 2,000. Their call comes as a Saudi blogger faces a decade in prison and 1,000 lashes for expressing his political views. Speaking Monday, Andrew Smith of Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) said the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... situation in Saudi is "dire." "The fact that it is also the world's largest buyer of UK weapons is a sign of the real hypocrisy at the heart of UK foreign policy," he said. "What right does the UK have to talk about human rights and democracy when its ministers are directly promoting arms sales to a regime that tortures bloggers?" Over the course of its first four years in government, the previous Tory-Lib Dem coalition plowed ahead with the UK's well-trodden policy of licensing £3.8 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia. "This included licenses for combat aircraft, components for bombs, weapon sights and tear gas. There is no suggestion that this will change under the current government," CAAT said. The charity, which carries out detailed analysis on the global arms trade, insisted that the British government promotes and condones these arms sales. Posted by: Fred 2015-06-09 |
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