Who is morally bankrupt?
CAAT, the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, is attempting in the Court of Appeal to stop UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which is conducting a vicious war on Yemen, with airstrikes that have been targeted civilians, including camps for internally displaced people, weddings, funerals, schools and school buses, religious centres, hospitals, vehicles, and markets. All of this is aided by western-supplied bombs and intelligence in which the UK is heavily involved. Thousands of civilians have been killed and many more maimed horribly. United Nations officials have described the war as “the worst man-made humanitarian crisis of our time.”And the official UK reaction? Jeremy Hunt, our Foreign Secretary in case anyone's forgotten, has claimed that suspending British military exports to Saudi Arabia would result in diminished U.K. influence over the course of the conflict, which would be no less than “morally bankrupt” and that “the people of Yemen would be the biggest losers.”Morally bankrupt? What an astonishing reversal of the truth!
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