{"id":3985,"date":"2017-03-27T05:52:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T05:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/3985-multibillion-dollar-arms-sales-by-usa-and-uk-reveal-shameful-contradiction-with-aid-efforts\/"},"modified":"2017-03-27T05:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T05:52:35","slug":"multibillion-dollar-arms-sales-by-usa-and-uk-reveal-shameful-contradiction-with-aid-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/3985-multibillion-dollar-arms-sales-by-usa-and-uk-reveal-shameful-contradiction-with-aid-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Multibillion-dollar arms sales by USA and UK reveal shameful contradiction with aid efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USA and UK are fuelling serious violations that have caused devastating civilian suffering through multibillion-dollar arms transfers to Saudi Arabia that vastly overshadow their humanitarian efforts, said Amnesty International.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">The USA and UK are fuelling serious violations that have caused devastating civilian suffering through multibillion-dollar arms transfers to Saudi Arabia that vastly overshadow their humanitarian efforts, said Amnesty International.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Since the conflict began two years ago in March 2015, the US and UK have together transferred more than $5 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia which is leading the military coalition in Yemen.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">This amount is more than 10 times the estimated $450 million spent or budgeted by the US State Department and the UK in aid to Yemen over the past two years, the thing that states deep hypocrisy in the external relations of the western countries.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA and UK are fuelling serious violations that have caused devastating civilian suffering through multibillion-dollar arms transfers to Saudi Arabia that vastly overshadow their humanitarian efforts, said Amnesty International. \u00a0 \u00a0 The USA and UK are fuelling serious violations that have caused devastating civilian suffering through multibillion-dollar arms transfers to Saudi Arabia that vastly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[89,695,228,68],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-amnesty-international","tag-dollar","tag-usa","tag-yemen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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