We would like to congratulate the British-based Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) for the fantastic humanitarian work they have done for the cause of peace that has resulted in the Court of Appeal declaring the British Government’s licensing of arms sales to its mass-murdering pals in the oppressive regime of Saudi Arabia illegal. Whilst some Brits make money out of the squalid and degenerate sale of the weaponry with which our fellow human beings can be slaughtered, CAAT gives us something we can be truly proud of.

The article below is from the CAAT website. Please visit CAAT and give these very fine people your support. – Steve

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In the last few minutes the Court of Appeal has ruled that UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen are unlawful.

The Court of Appeal concluded that it was ‘irrational and therefore unlawful’ for the Secretary of State for International Trade to have granted licences without making any assessment as to whether violations of international humanitarian law had taken place.

This historic judgement means that the government must now stop issuing new arms exports licences, and retake all decisions to export arms to Saudi in accordance with the law.

We celebrate this historic verdict. But these weapons sales should never have been licensed in the first place. It should not take a group of campaigners taking the Government to court to force it to apply its own rules.

It shouldn’t take four years of schools, hospitals, weddings, and funerals being bombed. It should not take tens of thousands of deaths and the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

We must also question a system – and the priorities of government – that have allowed the continuing provision of arms in these circumstances.

This isn’t the end.

The government is likely to continue to fight this decision, even now. So now is the time to ramp up the pressure and make sure they finally prioritise human lives over arms trade profits.

Email your MP today to demand an immediate end to arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UK support for war in Yemen. 

#StopArmingSaudi

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UK Reloaded (home based in England, UK) where the article above originated is a TLB project website.

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