Alwaght- Since May 2000 prime minister David Cameron oversaw the sale of Hawk fighter jets and bulk sales of machine guns, bombs and tear gas, according to research released on Wednesday by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) .
The report says that Britain has sold arms to 24 of the 27 states that it considers to be “countries of humanitarian concern”.
According to reports in The Daily Telegraph, published in May, Saudi Arabia has access to twice as many British-made warplanes in its bombing campaign in Yemen than the entire Royal Air Force.
British-made Tornado GR4 ground attack fighters and Eurofighter Typhoons are playing a central role in the Saudi regimes Air Force’s bombing campaign in Yemen.
While the Saudi's boast of having 100 battle-worthy planes for the operation, around 50 percent of which are believed to have been manufactured in the UK.
Bombs and ammunition, which were originally intended to be used by the British Army, have also been diverted to Saudi Arabia, military sources told Defense News in July.
Amnesty International has accused the UK of fuelling the civil war in Yemen and breaching domestic, European and international law by selling munitions and bombs to Riyadh.
“The overriding message is that human rights are playing second fiddle to company profits,” CAAT spokesperson Andrew Smith told The Independent.
“The income of BAE is being put over the rights of people being e x e c u t ed and tortured. It’s completely inconsistent to condemn these regimes while signing off on billion-pound arms deals.”
During the last nine months, the Saudi regime, using British supplied weapons, has waged a brutal and inhuman war on Yemen with at least 7,700 people have been killed mostly civilians including women and children.
The illegal war on Yemen has also inflicted damages on hundreds of important installations in the civilian infrastructure including hospitals, schools, mosques, residential quarters, water reservoirs etc.
