UK profits out of dictatorships by selling weapons that kill people who want democracy

UK profits out of dictatorships by selling weapons that kill people who want democracy .

Britain is one of the world's biggest arms exporters and the industry is worth billions of pounds every year. Major arms dealers are thought to have much influence over politicians and say their industry employs thousands of British workers.

In February this year, as governments across the Middle East were brutally suppressing peaceful protestors, British Prime Minister David Cameron embarked on a tour of the region accompanied by several major arms dealers. Although he denied the purpose of the trip was to sell arms, Cameron was widely condemned given Britain's long record of arming Middle East dictators who oppress their own people. And now a new parliamentary report has concluded that the government, as well as its predecessor, misjudged the risk of arms exports to authoritarian countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The report, by the Committee on Arms Export Controls, welcomed the revocation of some arms sales to Libya, Bahrain, Egypt and Tunisia. But it recommended a complete reconsideration of all arms export licenses to authoritarian regimes worldwide. The report found that the UK sold tear gas, crowd control armaments and sniper rifles to Libya and Bahrain in 2010. And it supplied armored carriers used against protesters in Libya in 2011.The report concluded that arms exports to Saudi Arabia should be kept under review given the possibility that British weapons were used in the devastating attack on Yemen in 2009-10, and are being used in the current Saudi-led invasion of Bahrain. And the report stated that the government should clarify its position on selling arms to Israel given the near certainty that British arms were used during operation cast lead and in suppressing Palestinians in the occupied territories.

so cameron was selling gaddafi crowd control weapons in feb of this year ..only to attack gaddafi in march...and were all told were are doing the right thing in libya...

to many people are buying into this humanitarian mission were fed on the MSM,so i just wanted to post this for more people to understand its all hypocrisy.

Yes very interesting.

The military industrial complex is huge, and spans across the globe not just in the USA.

Its a sad state of affairs when we sell arms to dictators that are then used against its own people, and then the UN, NATO et all are all there talking about democracy and in the end all their doing is looking for opportunites to keep conflicts going, so all the countries involved can make a nice profit from the conflict.

One day all this will fall on someboys lap and look out!

I have a feeling Cameron in the next year or so, will be twisted in knots, and its not going to be good.