The UK wants to lift a year-long arms embargo on Saudi Arabia and restart selling weapons to the oil-rich kingdom, which has relentlessly bombed civilian installations in Yemen
The United Kingdom is facing criticism from human rights campaigners for resuming the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia, which has carried out a deadly air campaign in impoverished Yemen.
“There have been hundreds of incidents - how many hundreds of isolated incidents before the government sees a pattern,” Andrew Smith, media coordinator of the Campaign Against Arms Trade , tells TRT World. Thousands of people, including women and children, have been killed since a Saudi-led coalition entered the Yemen conflict in 2015 against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
Despite the superiority of Saudi airpower, its military adventure has had little impact on the ground where the ragtag Houthi militia has taken control of key towns and installations. Saudi Arabia’s human rights track record came under the spotlight after Jamal Khashoggi was brutally killed and hacked to pieces inside the Kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. Even though the low price of oil and the coronavirus pandemic has hit the Saudi economy hard, it remains the world's largest oil exporter and it has spent more than $60 billion on military expenditure last year.
The argument that any prolonged disruption in sales can hurt the British economy does not stand as the defence export makes up only 0.2 percent to the economy. Save the Children, and NGO, estimates that over thirty children have been killed or injured on average every month over the past year in bombings from air raids.
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