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May 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Anti-arms trade campaigners condemned Britain for providing armaments to Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Egypt’s ruling junta despite the regimes’ violent crackdowns on protesters.
According to the annual Human Rights and Democracy report for 2011 by the UK Foreign Commonwealth Office’s (FCO), the Arab uprisings are the “most important prospect for the enlargement of human dignity and freedom since the end of the cold war.”
However, export figures for the final quarter of 2011 released by the UK Department of Business, Innovation Skills (BIS), revealed that Britain continued to license arms for export to Arab countries including over £1.7 billion worth of military exports to Saudi Arabia.
While the FCO report listed Saudi Arabia as a “country of concern” regarding human rights violations, Britain continued to license arms for export, including “aircraft, helicopters, drones” valued at £1.708bn and “grenades, bombs, missiles and countermeasures” at £15m.
“The FCO report is fulsome in its support for human rights and democracy in Arab Spring countries. However, the BIS figures show that the government is happy to approve arms exports to the same governments which abuse and suppress human rights,” said CAAT spokeswoman Kaye Stearman.
“It’s time to end the double standards and stop selling weapons to these authoritarian and repressive regimes.”
Moreover, it was revealed that the UK’s arms sales to al-Khalifa regime reached a total of £2.25m between July and September 2011, despite the last month’s report by Amnesty International confirmed ongoing human rights abuses in Bahrain.
Furthermore, although there are reports of bloody crackdowns on democratic protests against Egypt’s military regime, the British government provides its ruling junta with over £2m worth of equipment, such as components for military combat vehicles, weapons night sights, communications and range finding.
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