British government supports human rights abuse, globally.

By tdf, October 18, 2006

It was only last week when the British Foreign Office published their annual Human Rights Report. The Foreign Secretary, Margaret Becket, was the driving force behind this document which labelled 20 states from around the globe as ‘major countries of concern’ for human rights abuses.

Out of those 20 countries, the British government sell military equipment to 19. The group includes
China,
Burma,
NORTH KOREA,
IRAN,
RUSSIA,
Saudi Arabia and
Zimbabwe. Yes, I am not kidding here;
NORTH KOREA and
IRAN. Us Brits are arming two of the most serious enemies of our good friends of
Washington. So while John Bullshit Bolton, Donnie ‘the rascal’ Rumsfeld, Condi ‘fuckface’ Rice and the King of Kunts himself, George’please shoot me before I destroy the world’Bush, spread hatred for Kim Jong Il and Mr. Ahminedejad(sp!), the British government are granting licences for those very men to purchase British made weapons and munitions. At least that proves to me that as a nation we are not totally subservient to White House policy. But what fills me with disgust is this last year’s 68.5 million pounds worth of arms sales to
China. Why you may ask do I have such a problem with
China?? Well I can refer straight to the aforementioned Human Rights Report which states,

‘The Chinese authorities continue to violate a range of basic human rights. The use of the death penalty remains extensive and non-transparent; torture is widespread’

To get around an EU embargo which prohibits countries from selling ‘whole’ weapons to
China,
Britain sell them weapons in parts.

4.5m pounds worth of armoured vehicles and military communication equipment was licensed for sale to
Colombia. A country of which the report said,

‘Serious human rights abuse remain a tragically common occurrence in Colombia…Illegal armed groups continue to carry out attacks on both military forces and the civilian population, and the incidence of murders, forced disappearances and kidnappings remains high’ (saferworld.com)

15.5m pounds worth for the Israeli armed forces which even the fish of this planet know to be one of the most sinister and bloodthirsty of all organisations…

‘UN humanitarian coordinator David Shearer wants to know why the IDF deployed 90 percent of its cluster bombs during the last 72 hours of the conflict(with Hezbollah), while the UN ceasefire resolution was being approved.(5) UN officials are reportedly “dumbfounded”.(6) What could explain Israel’s intention in such an act, when peace was at hand?…Two hundred thousand people cannot return to their homes due to the severity of destruction and the massive quantities of unexploded ordnance and cluster bomblets covering their communities..’(counterpunch)

(15.5m pounds is small fry when you consider that the
US , so kindly, annually donates, $3billion of military ‘aid’ to
Israel

10m pounds of licensed sales to
Russia….

‘human rights defenders continue to be gravely concerned by actions taken by authorities… The
North Caucasus…remains one of
Europe‘s most serious human rights issues.”(British Foreign Office Human Rights report)

26m pounds worth to the Saudis…

‘there is still cause for serious concern about human rights in
Saudi Arabia‘(British Foreign Office Human Rights report)

It is disheartening to see the British government with the right hand pursuing peace and democracy, whilst using the left hand to licence arms exports to many of the world’s most despotic regimes. It is also insulting. Because the same government publishes a report clearly stating who are considered to be abusing the Rights of their own people, but don’t think twice about making a few quid off those same savage killers….money is more important than ethics to Tony Blair. Only a degenerate fool could seriously suggest that the British government is at all concerned with Peace.