The Guardian: Western countries continue to supply Saudi Arabia with large quantities of weapons

London-Sana

The West, led by the United States and Britain, continues to supply weapons to the Saudi regime despite its continued aggression against Yemen since 2015, making it the world's largest arms importer, the Guardian newspaper reported.

Last year alone, the Bani Saud regime spent about $ 70 billion on arms purchases, or about 9 percent of GDP, with the United States topping the list of arms suppliers to Saudi Arabia by acquiring about 70 percent of the Saudi market between 2014 and 2018. Britain came in second with about a tenth of total Saudi purchases.

The US and British governments, now addicted to Saudi money, can no longer stop arms deals, although there is no shortage of documented evidence that these weapons are being used in the war in Yemen to inflict heavy civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure. For this country.

International human rights organizations recently criticized the continued supply of weapons to the coalition led by the regime of Beni Saud in its aggression against Yemen, committing countless massacres of civilians, especially children and women, in daily raids on populated areas.

A study by the Stanford School of Law confirmed that "out of 27 attacks in Yemen that killed a large number of civilians, US weapons were used in 25 of them, while British weapons were used in five attacks." The bomb that targeted Saudi planes was a school bus. It killed more than 40 Yemeni children in the city of Dahyan in Saada province in August last year, which was a US-made guided bomb.

The International Relations Committee in the House of Lords confirmed in February that British arms sales to the Saudi regime are illegal in light of the continued aggression of the Saudi coalition against the Yemenis.

In the United States, the US Senate last June backed a resolution opposing President Donald Trump's plan to complete arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other countries in excess of $ 8 billion, one of 22 projects seeking to scrap a May Trump plan to bypass congressional review. And the completion of arms agreements.

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