Tory govt at it again.
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Tory govt at it again.
Oh, they ' forgot' to mention $6bn in arms sales to the human rights pariahs, Saudi Arabia
The British and Hitler/Stalin, which was worse?
https://www.rt.com/uk/461697-uk-human-r ... aign=Email
UK report on ‘human rights’ forgets to mention Saudi Arabia in section on Yemen war
Published time: 12 Jun, 2019 15:15
Edited time: 13 Jun, 2019 06:48
UK report on ‘human rights’ forgets to mention Saudi Arabia in section on Yemen war
© Reuters / Naif Rahma
The UK has published its annual human rights report, but with some notable omissions in its section on Yemen’s war – namely the identity of the country bombing its civilians, and the UK’s own involvement in the conflict.
The 2018 “Human Rights & Democracy”report from the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) includes an almost 800-word section on the humanitarian situation in Yemen – but, to a reader unfamiliar with the specifics, the document offers few clues as to who bears most responsibility for the crisis, since the British report seems to have forgotten to mention some key details.
“Multiple parties across the country committed a wide range of human rights abuses and violations.”
Yet, a UN investigative report last year found that airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition had caused “most of the documented civilian casualties” in the country – and said the indiscriminate strikes had hit “residential areas, markets, funerals, weddings, detention facilities, civilian boats and even medical facilities.”
The UN also criticized the Saudi coalition’s sea and air blockades, which, it argued, could violate international humanitarian law, and called on the “international community” to “refrain from providing arms that could be used in the conflict.”
But who is providing arms? The FCO report is quiet on that front, too.
Former UK foreign secretary –and frontrunner for the Tory leadership– Boris Johnson recommended that the UK sell British bomb parts to Riyadh, immediately after an airstrike had hit a potato factory, killing 14 people, UK media reported this week, after emails obtained by arms trade expert Dr Anna Stavrianakis, through an FOI request, revealed Johnson’s enthusiasm for the sale. In justifying the sale, the FCO's Arms Policy Export Team argued that there was no “clear risk” that the weapons would be used to violate humanitarian law and said the UK had “confidence” in the Saudi's “dynamic targeting processes.”
UK govt’s annual "human rights" report has a section on Yemen which fails to mention Saudi air attacks or war crimes. While its section on Saudi Arabia fails to mention Yemen. https://bit.ly/2Rc58Bu
The day after Johnson recommended the sale, a village school was hit in another airstrike, killing 10 children and injuring 20. Johnson’s successor, current UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, has incredibly argued that it would be “morally bankrupt” for the UK to stop arming the Saudis, because if it did, “the people of Yemen would be the biggest losers.”
Yet, the FCO report praises what it calls the UK’s“continued commitment to improving the overall human rights situation” in the country and touts its provision of “emergency cash assistance” to vulnerable displaced women and girls, as well as a UK programme aiming to “increase Yemeni women’s inclusion in the peace process.”
The one (and only) mention of Saudi Arabia came more than halfway through the section on Yemen – a tepid line on the use of secret prisons “in areas under the Saudi-led coalition’s control” – inserted without any context as to who makes up the coalition, who supports it and what it is doing.
The report then quickly switches back to self-praise mode, with the FCO promising that the UK “will continue to lead international efforts to work towards an end to the conflict.”
The section on UK ally Saudi Arabia itself begins by lauding the “positive trajectory of social reform” in the country and condemns various continued human rights violations, but makes no mention of Saudi Arabia’s actions in Yemen.
The British and Hitler/Stalin, which was worse?
https://www.rt.com/uk/461697-uk-human-r ... aign=Email
UK report on ‘human rights’ forgets to mention Saudi Arabia in section on Yemen war
Published time: 12 Jun, 2019 15:15
Edited time: 13 Jun, 2019 06:48
UK report on ‘human rights’ forgets to mention Saudi Arabia in section on Yemen war
© Reuters / Naif Rahma
The UK has published its annual human rights report, but with some notable omissions in its section on Yemen’s war – namely the identity of the country bombing its civilians, and the UK’s own involvement in the conflict.
The 2018 “Human Rights & Democracy”report from the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) includes an almost 800-word section on the humanitarian situation in Yemen – but, to a reader unfamiliar with the specifics, the document offers few clues as to who bears most responsibility for the crisis, since the British report seems to have forgotten to mention some key details.
“Multiple parties across the country committed a wide range of human rights abuses and violations.”
Yet, a UN investigative report last year found that airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition had caused “most of the documented civilian casualties” in the country – and said the indiscriminate strikes had hit “residential areas, markets, funerals, weddings, detention facilities, civilian boats and even medical facilities.”
The UN also criticized the Saudi coalition’s sea and air blockades, which, it argued, could violate international humanitarian law, and called on the “international community” to “refrain from providing arms that could be used in the conflict.”
But who is providing arms? The FCO report is quiet on that front, too.
Former UK foreign secretary –and frontrunner for the Tory leadership– Boris Johnson recommended that the UK sell British bomb parts to Riyadh, immediately after an airstrike had hit a potato factory, killing 14 people, UK media reported this week, after emails obtained by arms trade expert Dr Anna Stavrianakis, through an FOI request, revealed Johnson’s enthusiasm for the sale. In justifying the sale, the FCO's Arms Policy Export Team argued that there was no “clear risk” that the weapons would be used to violate humanitarian law and said the UK had “confidence” in the Saudi's “dynamic targeting processes.”
UK govt’s annual "human rights" report has a section on Yemen which fails to mention Saudi air attacks or war crimes. While its section on Saudi Arabia fails to mention Yemen. https://bit.ly/2Rc58Bu
The day after Johnson recommended the sale, a village school was hit in another airstrike, killing 10 children and injuring 20. Johnson’s successor, current UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, has incredibly argued that it would be “morally bankrupt” for the UK to stop arming the Saudis, because if it did, “the people of Yemen would be the biggest losers.”
Yet, the FCO report praises what it calls the UK’s“continued commitment to improving the overall human rights situation” in the country and touts its provision of “emergency cash assistance” to vulnerable displaced women and girls, as well as a UK programme aiming to “increase Yemeni women’s inclusion in the peace process.”
The one (and only) mention of Saudi Arabia came more than halfway through the section on Yemen – a tepid line on the use of secret prisons “in areas under the Saudi-led coalition’s control” – inserted without any context as to who makes up the coalition, who supports it and what it is doing.
The report then quickly switches back to self-praise mode, with the FCO promising that the UK “will continue to lead international efforts to work towards an end to the conflict.”
The section on UK ally Saudi Arabia itself begins by lauding the “positive trajectory of social reform” in the country and condemns various continued human rights violations, but makes no mention of Saudi Arabia’s actions in Yemen.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Don't forget the Tories secretly have Jews amongst them too.
It's all a shocking conspiracy.
It's all a shocking conspiracy.
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Britain was once extremely anti-Semitic.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o ... in_England
The conservative monarchs started this...Edward (the forbears of your beloved Tory party) The Scots had to show you chavs the standard to follow. LOL, having to be shown the moral path by the Scots!
The undiscerning trash probably have TEFLers in their ranks by now. Maybe even those living in former French colonies...imagine the shame...
Imagine believing the super-rich working together for financial gain! I mean, the idiocy of such an idea! It's like believing in stock markets...oh, wait...
So...we were talking about the Tory govt and its wonderful accomplishments..Bore-us Johnston, ingnoramus supremo will be elected. Him and Donald, two retards who cant' find a barber.
Sweeney Todd, help us, brother.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Funnily enough I am a Scot.vladimir wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:57 pmBritain was once extremely anti-Semitic.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o ... in_England
The conservative monarchs started this...Edward (the forbears of your beloved Tory party) The Scots had to show you chavs the standard to follow. LOL, having to be shown the moral path by the Scots!
The undiscerning trash probably have TEFLers in their ranks by now. Maybe even those living in former French colonies...imagine the shame...
Imagine believing the super-rich working together for financial gain! I mean, the idiocy of such an idea! It's like believing in stock markets...oh, wait...
So...we were talking about the Tory govt and its wonderful accomplishments..Bore-us Johnston, ingnoramus supremo will be elected. Him and Donald, two retards who cant' find a barber.
Sweeney Todd, help us, brother.
Not that keen on the Tories at the moment as I am socially and economically liberal and pro-immigration, as they once were. Liberal in the old sense of the word before it got hijacked to mean people who vote Hillary.
But, yes, Boris might steer them back that way.
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I am just waiting for the "it's all Margaret Thatchers fault".
Before launching an anti Tory thread, it would have been wise to check out Labours history of arms sales. It's even worse than the Tories. They "implemented" all sorts of programs to curb sales but failed to carry out any of them.
If you want to get into a full blown who sold what, we will be here for years. For example
https://gsdrc.org/document-library/the- ... s-exports/
There is no difference between parties once they get in power.
On a related issue, I see that Comrade Corbin is sucking up to Iran now. Add that to the various Arab terrorists groups, Chinese dictators and IRA leaders he worships and think about it, do you really want him as PM?
Before launching an anti Tory thread, it would have been wise to check out Labours history of arms sales. It's even worse than the Tories. They "implemented" all sorts of programs to curb sales but failed to carry out any of them.
If you want to get into a full blown who sold what, we will be here for years. For example
https://gsdrc.org/document-library/the- ... s-exports/
There is no difference between parties once they get in power.
On a related issue, I see that Comrade Corbin is sucking up to Iran now. Add that to the various Arab terrorists groups, Chinese dictators and IRA leaders he worships and think about it, do you really want him as PM?
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
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He wants evidence before he backs sending the working classes into another war for oil in a country thousands of miles from the UK. Imagine that? Madness.TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:27 pm
On a related issue, I see that Comrade Corbin is sucking up to Iran now. Add that to the various Arab terrorists groups, Chinese dictators and IRA leaders he worships and think about it, do you really want him as PM?
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I was giving your political argument the benefit of the doubt until you spelled Jeremy's surname incorrectly.TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:27 pmOn a related issue, I see that Comrade Corbin is sucking up to Iran now. Add that to the various Arab terrorists groups, Chinese dictators and IRA leaders he worships and think about it, do you really want him as PM?
The Tories have ferked up Brexit to a laughable degree, and you're still loyal. The Chinese would love you. Loyal in spite of the scams.
It doesn't bode well, that and the McCarthyist paranoia.
If you know a literate motodop, I'd be more interested in hearing his or her views.No offence.
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You will have to forgive my faux pas, I have been a little unwell due to chemo treatment for cancer so I may make the occasional boo boo.vladimir wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:31 pmI was giving your political argument the benefit of the doubt until you spelled Jeremy's surname incorrectly.
The Tories have ferked up Brexit to a laughable degree, and you're still loyal. The Chinese would love you. Loyal in spite of the scams.
It doesn't bode well, that and the McCarthyist paranoia.
If you know a literate motodop, I'd be more interested in hearing his or her views.No offence.
Actually, I agree that May made a dogs dinner of Brexit. I also am on record as saying that Brexit should never have been a party issue but instead an open one. Also she should have had a cross party group with a major captain of industry doing the negotiations while she got on with running the country.
In another life, I am also on record as saying that I voted remain but believe in democracy more than I do in the EU. As the UK voted out (no hard or soft boiled version, just out), then out it has to be.
My own take for what it is worth is that the EU as a common market is brilliant. The EU as a political entity is a disaster. Right now it is very much a socialist idealism but one day, the politics may swing far right and then you end up at the other end of the spectrum. We would be at the mercy of other countries ideals rather than our own.
That's it from a guy who has just spent the morning in an MRI scanner listening to the magnets going bong bong as they flooded my body and agitated my hydrogen protons.
Quiet compost mentis. (intended pun)
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
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A little horse but still human.
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
I was just reading about the ' Values and Standards ' of the British army. More Mr Reapers field than mine but which ones do you think Boris Johnson upholds ?. Courage; Discipline; Respect for Others; Integrity; Loyalty; Selfless Commitment ?. Or maybe: Lawful ? Acceptable behaviour; Professional ?. Asking for 67 Million U K citizens. PS I genuinely hope your heath improves.
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In politics, it is always better the devil you know than the devil you don't.EIKROY wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:09 pmI was just reading about the ' Values and Standards ' of the British army. More Mr Reapers field than mine but which ones do you think Boris Johnson upholds ?. Courage; Discipline; Respect for Others; Integrity; Loyalty; Selfless Commitment ?. Or maybe: Lawful ? Acceptable behaviour; Professional ?. Asking for 67 Million U K citizens. PS I genuinely hope your heath improves.
People complain about Trump but what was the alternative? Hillary Clinton. 1000 times worse.
So over to UK politics. There is not a single party that cover my beliefs. I am what you would call a Social Conservative. Knock Boris all you want but what are the alternatives to a Tory Party led by Boris?
Labour under comrade Jeremy would destroy the UK economy completely. He still admires Venezuela and the way it is run. He supports Iran, Moscow, Arab terrorists and of course the IRA. Is that the sort of PM you want?
There is one very big redeeming feature about Boris. He will stand up to the Brussels bullies and not let them trample over us like John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May all have done.
Again, I am on record on this forum as stating that there are very few MPs at Westminster who have the countries welfare at heart. They are all a bunch of pigs with their snouts in the trough and the reason a lot of them want to ignore the GBP vote to leave the EU is simply because the EU is a bigger trough.
I am actually going to have a very good day today. I have my last session of chemo and the sun is shining. What more could anyone ask for? (maybe a benevolent dictator as a UK leader?)
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
So Bojo will stand up to the E U bullies will he. I think it may go something like this. " Shooting myself in the foot is a bad idea. But....... It is very important to keep the option of shooting myself in the foot on the table. The best way of not shooting myself in the foot is to prepare to shoot myself in the foot. Both feet if necessary. Take that E U 27. Just remember WE started the fire not the E U.
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