The War in Yemen – UK Petrodollars

Review of Party Publication

In today’s edition, following up on our recent war crimes tribunal for Yemen article, we are presenting the opening part of a page published in July 2017 at The Party and since then taken down when all disqus channels were deleted. It doesn’t take much to understand why the Tory government back then was glad to see all Party space shut down, alas here we are again with a reminder of what we once wrote for all to see.

The following text presents our view concerning a high court UK decision from July 2017 which allowed the UK government of the time to continue selling weapons to be used in the war on Yemen. For reasons of space we are limiting the reprint to the first few paragraphs, as the remaining part of the text also dealt with other matters, such as the famine in Africa.

Famine in Yemen and Africa

Anglia Of England

@angliaofengland a day ago (July 2017)

Today, The Party reports on the ongoing famine that is raging in Yemen and in east Africa, from Somalia as far as Nigeria.

UK High Court Says OK

While a UK high court has ruled that Westminster can continue selling weapons to Saudi Arabia notwithstanding their use in the destruction of Yemeni civic infrastructure, millions of Yemenis are suffering the effects of famine, and over 300,000 people there have contracted cholera, of whom over 1,700 have died.

End of text.

Here is a relevant link to the high court decision of 2017.

Callous Attitude of UK Ministers

A full two years later, a court of appeal UK ruled in June 2019 that the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia had been unlawful, as can be seen in the following link.

The article in The Guardian shown in the above link states:

"Three judges said that a decision made in secret in 2016 had led them to decide that Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Liam Fox and other key ministers had illegally signed off on arms exports without properly assessing the risk to civilians."

And it goes on to report on the cynical response to the court ruling:

"Later, Liam Fox was understood to have privately told at least one MP that he expected that the review process called by the court would take about 10 weeks - and would not lead to any of the previous licencing decisions being overturned."

Indeed, in July 2020, Westminster announced the full-blown resumption of the sale of arms to be used in the war on Yemen, regardless how many millions of people there depend on food supplies from donor states through the UN and on various charity organizations in order not to starve to death.

Conclusion

Now that the UK has passed on, is it not time for the lingering disembodied entities to move on too, such as by handing themselves in to the Hague War Crimes Tribunal? Trying to return into the defunct UK body is not an option.

Coming up in our next print we'll be giving further insight to the petrol trade and the UK government's commitment to wars overseas in the service of foreign oil dynasties.    


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