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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12330363" data-attributes="member: 92282">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’s military. 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’s military, the  daily Morning Star reported.  Britain has licensed over £3 million worth of military and “dual  use” equipment for export to Sri Lanka since the country’s army defeated  the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009, according to  the report.  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.  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.  In the first nine months of 2011 the latest date for which figures  are available, Britain licensed almost £1.5million worth of exports of  which over £1.3million were military.  Among the items exported were armoured vehicles, body armour and  “decoying countermeasure equipment and components,” coming under the  heading of “grenades, bombs, missiles, countermeasures.”  “The Arab Spring has bought world attention to the repression  practised by governments against their own people. Sri Lanka’s 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”, said Caat  spokeswoman Kaye Stearman. “We 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.”  Meanwhile, 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’s regime. Press Tv</blockquote>

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