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Independent headline: UK sales of bombs and missiles to Saudi Arabia increase by almost 500% since start of Yemen war

CAAT (Campaign Against Arms Trade) is trying to put a stop to this. They've already been to court once, which inexplicably (i.e. because capitalism) found that continuing to arm a regime that's responsible for thousands of civilian deaths, bombing hospitals, and blockading ports and thereby preventing humanitarian aid, is "legal". CAAT are raising money to fund an appeal: case page on CrowdJustice (CrowdJustice is a crowdfunding site specifically for court cases).

Date: 2017-11-14 09:42 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gwendraith
Thanks for this. It's disgusting, the hypocrisy of the British government banging on about human rights in other countries and them doing this is staggering.
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