{"id":856,"date":"2017-09-26T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/labour-slams-uk-hypocrisy-with-saudi-bahrain\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T15:19:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:19:45","slug":"labour-slams-uk-hypocrisy-with-saudi-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/labour-slams-uk-hypocrisy-with-saudi-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour slams UK \u2018hypocrisy\u2019 with Saudi, Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UK Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s \u201cutter silence\u201d in the face of human rights abuses by countries like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain illustrates her \u201chypocrisy,\u201d said a Labour lawmaker.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tSpeaking at Labour Party\u2019s national conference in Brighton, Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry criticized the ruling Conservative government for turning a blind eye to\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u2019s deadly war against Yemen, and selling Riyadh new weapons that would be used against Yemeni civilians, Press TV wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is rank hypocrisy,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it also illustrates a basic fact that the world we want to see \u2014 a world governed by ethics and values, a world based on rules and laws will never truly exist as long as governments and world leaders get to decide for themselves when it suits them to play by the rules and when the rules can be safely ignored.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tLondon has been resisting international calls to stop aiding Saudi war crimes in Yemen, amid overwhelming evidence that British weapons and intelligence are being used to target Yemeni civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to a report by\u00a0the Guardian<\/em>\u00a0last year, senior British military officers have also helped Saudi forces with their target training, including the use of UK-made cruise missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Saudi military does not hesitate to use internationally-banned weapons, including cluster bombs, against the Yemenis. The UK is a known supplier of such weapons to the Riyadh regime.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tAnti-war charity War Child UK said in a report earlier this year that British weapons manufacturers such as BAE Systems and Raytheon have earned more than \u00a36 billion from their deals with Saudi Arabia ever since the beginning of the Yemen war.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThornberry attacked UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon for saying that \u201cthe thousands of children killed and injured by airstrikes in Yemen are just a consequence of Saudi Arabia \u2018defending itself\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tShe also blasted May for extending ties with Bahrain despite the Al Khalifa family\u2019s years-long crackdown on the Bahraini people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe world we want will never exist when governments like Theresa May\u2019s think it\u2019s perfectly OK to loudly condemn those they regard as enemies but then fall utterly silent when it is their friends in Bahrain rounding up, torturing and executing civilian protesters,\u201d she fumed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tAnti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in Bahrain ever since a popular uprising began in the kingdom in February 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe UK government has come under fire for providing Bahraini security forces with intelligence and training, without considering their long record of torture and abuse against prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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