NOURNEWS - The British Independent Newspaper has reported that researchers and experts have confirmed that Britain has provided 20 billion worth of weapons and military equipment to Saudi Arabia since the start of the Yemeni war in 2015.
The figures were revealed by researchers entering official records and weapons manufacturers, who said they were three times higher than expected.
According to the official government figures; British officials have signed $6.7 billion Pound worth of arms sales for the export of bombs, missiles and aircraft since Saudi Arabia began bombing Yemen in 2015.
The experts also examined the accounts of well-known companies selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and found that the revenue of a single company funded by the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation was between 17 17 billion between 2014 and August 2019.
As a result, experts estimate the true value of exports to be around 20 billion.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE since 2015 in the form of a coalition of several Arab countries with the help of the United States, they launched large-scale attacks against Yemen, the poorest Arab country, in order to achieve their political goals and ambitions under the pretext of returning ousted and fugitive President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi to power.
"British weapons have been used to attack Yemeni civilians, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people." This means that Britain is contributing to the situation in Yemen.
Also, according to the research site "Declassified United Kingdom", Dozens of British troops have been stationed for months at Al Ghaydah Airport in the restive Al-Mahrah province in eastern Yemen, which is occupied by coalition forces. A number of human rights groups have claimed that detainees are being tortured in a prison at the airport.
BY: Pooya Mirzaei
NOURNEWS