Civilian deaths not enough to scrap Britain’s arms sales to Riyadh, but Khashoggi probe may be – MP

Civilian deaths not enough to scrap Britain’s arms sales to Riyadh, but Khashoggi probe may be – MP

The UK’s Middle East minister seems unfazed by civilian suffering in Yemen, saying that ending Britain’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia won’t help, but that the probe into the Khashoggi death may influence Britain’s support of Riyadh. When Alistair Burt responded to calls from the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, and the Oxford Research Group for the UK to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the minister completely dismissed the