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Amnesty International on Monday urged Madrid to stop supplying weapons to Riyadh, warning that bombs, such as the ones Spain plans to sell to Saudi Arabia, have been used in “dozens of war crimes in Yemen.”
“Today Spain joins a growing list of countries reviewing arms sales to Saudi Arabia. After 3 ½ years of war and thousands of civilian deaths in Yemen, arming Saudi Arabia should be unthinkable,” the rights group said on its Twitter page.
Amnesty also wondered “What will it take to make US, UK and other suppliers act?”
Spain is the fourth country on the list of major arms exporters to the Riyadh regime, according to the rights group.
Citing Amnesty, media reports say between 2015 and 2017, Spain reportedly exported 1.2 billion euros worth of military equipment to the Saudi-led military coalition.
The European Parliament has urged its member states to halt these sales on numerous occasions, admitting that the alliance led by Saudi Arabia violates international humanitarian law by using this weaponry in attacking the civilian population and bombing hospitals, markets and schools.
Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 to reinstall its former Riyadh-allied government. The military aggression has so far killed over 14,000 Yemenis and put millions on the verge of famine. It has also caused a deadly outbreak of cholera.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
