UK Doubles Arms Sales To Human Rights Abusing Countries

[Resonant]

> The UK nearly doubled the value of arms sales to countries on the government’s list of human rights abusers in the past year, figures reveal.

> The value of sales to Saudi Arabia, currently embroiled in a bloody conflict in Yemen against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels where thousands of civilians have been killed and millions left in need of aid, alone totalled £1.13bn, the group said.

>Theresa May’s government is “actively arming and supporting many of the regimes that even it believes are responsible for terrible human rights abuses”, CAAT’s Andrew Smith told The Independent.
He added: “There is little oversight in the system, and no controls over how these arms will be used once they have left the UK. The arms sales being agreed today could be used to fuel atrocities for years to come. Right now UK-made fighter jets and bombs are playing a central role in the Saudi-led destruction of Yemen, and the government and arms companies have totally failed to monitor or evaluate how this deadly equipment is being used.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-arms-sales-double-human-rights-abusers-china-saudi-arabia-israel-yemen-a8452101.html

Gotta pay for the returning Empire somehow amirite?

[Curls]

What the fuck is it with countries arming SA, for fucks sake

[Resonant]

Taking that as a rhetorical question.

[Pseudonym]

UK's been their ally even longer than we have.

[Viper123_SWE]

Oil and other benefits.

Same reason why Sweden sells RPGs and artillery cannons to India AND Pakistan (as well as to the Saudis).