Yemen: Two human rights organizations called, on Monday, for Britain to stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, due to their involvement in the years-long war in Yemen.
This came in a joint report issued by the SAM Organizations for Rights and Freedoms (a Yemeni non-governmental organization based in Geneva) and Peace and Democracy Support (British non-governmental organization).
The report said that the UK should listen to calls by international organizations (such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch / in previous statements) to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
He pointed out that “Saudi purchases accounted for 41 percent of the total volume of arms exports from the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2019, and the United Kingdom was responsible for 19 percent of arms imports to Saudi Arabia.”
The report: Saudi Arabia’s purchases accounted for 41 percent of the total volume of arms exports from the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2019
He explained that “based on a campaign against the arms trade, the total published value of British export licenses approved for military products to Saudi Arabia since the start of the bombing in Yemen is 5.4 billion pounds, however, the real value is not less than 16 billion pounds.”
Exports from British companies, according to the report, include: “aircraft, helicopters, drones, equipment and related components, worth 3 billion pounds, as well as 2.5 billion pounds for bombs, missiles and grenades.”
He continued: “With regard to British arms sales in favor of the UAE, the Yemeni Peace Project indicates that the UAE is involved, and may participate militarily more than Saudi Arabia, in the Yemeni war, as it appears to be carrying out the majority of air strikes on the front lines of the coalition.”
The report quoted “Stockholm International Peace Research Institute”, that the UAE has invested heavily in the past two decades in the manufacture of weapons, especially armored vehicles and missiles, and the UAE was the eighth largest importer of weapons in the world between 2015 and 2019.
The UAE is one of the largest arms customers in the United Kingdom, as the total value of British export licenses approved for military products to the UAE since the start of the bombing in Yemen has reached 715 million pounds.
And he added, “The UAE is one of the largest arms customers in the United Kingdom. The total value of British export licenses approved for military products to the Emirates since the start of the bombing in Yemen amounted to 715 million pounds.”
For the sixth year, Yemen is witnessing fierce fighting between the Saudi-backed government forces and the Iranian-backed Houthi group, which has controlled governorates, including the capital, Sanaa, since 2014, in addition to the Southern Transitional Council’s control of a number of cities and its demand for secession.
The war left 112,000 people dead, including 12,000 civilians, and 80 percent of the population of about 30 million people are dependent on aid in the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the United Nations.
(Anatolia)
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