Alwaght- The Canadian government is under fire for signing a secret arms deal with Saudi Arabia and turning a blind eye to concerns raised about the uses of the received weapons by the kingdom.
Canada’s CBC News network has reported that it got some new documents which confirmed that Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion has issued a permission for exportation of armored vehicles to Riyadh worth $11billion.
The new Canada’s liberal government has failed to cancel the deal, arguing that it was not possible to revoke the agreement without Canada paying heavy fines and compensations. The published documents suggest that Dion on Friday gave permission of delivery of the bought arms to Saudi Arabia. The deal is about exporting armored vehicles, spare parts and the relevant weaponry.
This deal is considered as a small instance showing the West’s double standards in dealing with West Asia region’s developments. The US-led Western powers have not showed a fair behavior when it came to their political positions and performances.
Actually, their approach in coping with different issues, crises and human rights cases has always been contradictory and an instance of double standards. The Western countries, on top of them the US, on the one hand insist that the political solutions must be found for the regional crises and on the other hand they support the rebel and terrorist groups in crisis-hit countries around the world generally and West Asia specifically and cause terror and massacres of the civilians.
Displaying continued behavior of double standards, the West and the US export arms to some West Asian countries, killing mostly Arab civilians with Western weapons.
While the human rights groups speak out against the ongoing Saudi aggression against Yemen through bombing the houses and infrastructures, the Western arms companies, including the American, British and Canadian companies, are increasing arms supply to the ruling Al Saudi regime.
Despite the fact that the European Parliament and the Amnesty International have adopted an anti-Saudi arms boycott plan, asking the US, Britain, France and other European countries, in protest of continued Saudi military campaign against Yemen, to halt weapons sales to Riyadh. Saudi Arabia still uses Britain-made fighter jets, Britain-trained pilots and British advices for accurate bombings of determined Yemeni targets, however.
The Saud regime's strikes go on, disregarding European Parliament's and other Western sides' stances against Riyadh’s massacring of the Yemeni civilians.
Needless to say that the UN has so far chosen to be silent against Saudi aggression which is getting into its second year. It also failed to take any serious action to protect the ill-fated Yemeni people.
Saudi Arabia is doing actions in violation of international laws of human rights. The Saudi assault against Yemen has killed and wounded over 23,000 people so far. Nearly 1.2 million people are now displaced due to Saudi aggression. The military campaign also destroyed many infrastructures of Yemen. Legally, it is possible for the human rights activists to file suits at the International courts against Washington, London and other European countries which support Saudi regime and equip it with destructive weapons. The legal cases could be successful in taking the right of the Yemenis from the aggressive Saudi regime by forcing it to make war reparations to its victims.
