Britain Gives Saudi Regime More Bombs to Attack Yemen

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Alwaght- British arms companies have handed more deadly bombs to the Saudi regime as Riyadh continues its brutal war on Yemeni people.
Reports say sales of British bombs and missiles to the Saudi regime surged to over £1bn just three months last year, according to an official record of arms export licenses quietly released by London this week.
The sales, up from just £9m in the preceding three-month period, have occurred while the oil-rich autocracy conducts a military campaign in its neighbor’s territory, where the United Nations has said a “humanitarian catastrophe” is unfolding.
Figures released by the British government on Tuesday show the UK sold Saudi Arabia £1,066,216,510 of weapons including bombs and air-to-air missiles between July and September 2015.
The arms were sold to the Saudi regime at a time when the kingdom was heavily bombing Yemen, where Riyadh is leading an Arab coalition aimed at pushing back the Ansarullah movement in order to reinstall the exiled government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The UN says more than 7,000 people have been killed in the last 11 months of Saudi-led war on Yemen, with local sources saying the figure is much higher and that the casualties are mostly civilians especially women and children.
The international body has reported that more than 80 percent of the country’s 24 million people require some form of humanitarian assistance.
Criticism of the Saudi military aggression on Yemen included the bombing of multiple hospitals run by the charity Médecins Sans Frontières and using banned munitions especially cluster bombs supplied by the US and Britain.
Late December UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein said that a “disproportionate” number of attacks of civilians in Yemen had come from the Saudi-led invasion force.
“I have observed with extreme concern the continuation of heavy shelling from the ground and the air in areas with high a concentration of civilians as well as the perpetuation of the destruction of civilian infrastructure – in particular hospitals and schools – by all parties to the conflict, although a disproportionate amount appeared to be the result of airstrikes carried out by Coalition Forces,” Mr Zeid said.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir recently revealed that British and American military officials are present in the operating room of the Saudi-coalition carrying out air strikes in Yemen.
Human rights groups have condemned the UK’s role in the Yemen war, and in December 2015 Saferworld and Amnesty International accused the British government of breaking international law in their arms sales.

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