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20 January 2016

Britain doesn’t just sell arms to dictatorships – it sells our silence, as well

Britain’s arms trade is undermining the humanitarian efforts of its Department of International Development.

By Diane Abbott

Armed with British planes and British bombs, the Arab world’s richest country has been indiscriminately bombing its most impoverished.

Saudi Arabia, which buys at least a third of our arms exports, has been bombing Yemen for nine months now.

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