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By PRESS TV –<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Britain has been condemned for continuing to sell weaponry to the Sri Lankan government despite evidence showing that war crimes are committed by the Asian country\u2019s military.<\/strong><\/div>\n
Campaign Against Arms Trade (Caat) urged the coalition government to explain why it continues to license weapons for export to Sri Lanka irrespective of evidence of war crimes by the country\u2019s military, the daily\u00a0Morning Star<\/em>\u00a0reported.\u00a0Britain has licensed over \u00a33 million worth of military and \u201cdual use\u201d equipment for export to Sri Lanka since the country\u2019s army defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009, according to the report.<\/div>\n
Both LTTE and the Sri Lankan government have been accused of committing atrocities during the conflict which is estimated to have killed up to 40,000 civilians.<\/div>\n

A cross-party parliamentary committee on arms export controls said that it could not guarantee that British-licensed armaments were not used during the Sri Lankan government bloody attempt to eradicate the LTTE.
\nIn the first nine months of 2011 the latest date for which figures are available, Britain licensed almost \u00a31.5million worth of exports of which over \u00a31.3million were military.
\nAmong the items exported were armoured vehicles, body armour and \u201cdecoying countermeasure equipment and components,\u201d coming under the heading of \u201cgrenades, bombs, missiles, countermeasures.\u201d
\n\u201cThe Arab Spring has bought world attention to the repression practised by governments against their own people. Sri Lanka\u2019s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished brings a similar focus on the brutality exercised by the government of Sri Lanka against opposing forces and the thousands of helpless civilians trapped in the warzone\u201d, said Caat spokeswoman Kaye Stearman.
\n\u201cWe need to ask why the UK government continues to licence arms for export to Sri Lanka, given its long and proven knowledge of the situation.\u201d
\nMeanwhile, more than one year after the start of Bahrain’s democratic uprising, the repression continues, and so do the UK’s arms sales to the country\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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