Islam Times - British PM refuses to apologize for selling arms to rights abusers

Islam Times - British Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to make an apology for selling weaponry to regimes with poor human rights records during a recent trip to the Persian Gulf region.

The Prime Minister was heavily slammed for his three-day controversial visit to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates last week, during which he acted as a salesman for the country’s arms industry that involved the selling of 100 Typhoon jets to dictatorial regimes in the region.

Amnesty International accused David Cameron of a “deeply disturbing trade-off” between business and strategic interests and the issue of human rights.

The Prime Minister defended his trip to the Middle East region during his annual Mansion House speech, adding that he was collecting support to the UK economy with defence strategies.

Cameron’s controversial move comes as the British government continues to sell itself as an advocate of human rights.

This is while that the Saudi regime as one of biggest UK’s business partners continues to unleash a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests inside Saudi Arabia and “routinely represses expressions critical of the regime,” according to Human Rights Watch.

The Saudi regime has also dispatched its elite national guards troops to Bahrain to help King Hammad al-Khalifa agents suppress dissent in the tiny Persian Gulf island nation.

The Saudi-backed Bahraini regime has so far killed at least 100 pro-democracy protesters in the country since February last year when people launched an uprising, calling on the regime to end its atrocities against its own nation.