Britain's government broke the law by allowing weapons to be sold to Saudi Arabia that may have been used in the Yemen war, a British court ruled Thursday.
"The Court of Appeal has concluded that the process of decision-making by the government was wrong in law in one significant respect," judge Terence Etherton said as he handed down the ruling.
Three judges said the British government had"made no attempt" to find out whether the Saudi-led coalition had breached international law. But the court's ruling does not mean arms-sales licenses must be suspended, only that the government"must reconsider the matter." A British government spokeswoman said:"This judgment is not about whether the decisions themselves were right or wrong, but whether the process in reaching those decisions was correct."Britain is the world's sixth largest seller of arms, after the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute . Saudi Arabia accounted for 43 percent of Britain's global arms sales in the past decade.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people and has put 10 million people at risk of famine and the world's worst cholera epidemic.
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