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To: Graham P Jones MP
Ban Arms Fairs in the UK
To ban all Arms Fairs in the UK, starting with DSEI 2019.
Why is this important?
On 9th August 2018 a bomb was dropped on a school bus in Yemen, killing 40 boys aged between six and eleven, just one of countless atrocities that happen every year, fuelled by the global Arms Trade.
The UK actively supports this deadly trade by hosting numerous Arms Fairs each year, including the DSEI Arms Fair, one of the world's largest Arms Fairs that happens every two years in London. The British Government officially invites representatives from some of the world's worst human-right's abusing states to these Fairs, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Pakistan and Egypt, countries on the UK's own "human rights priority" list.
In the past illegal weapons and torture equipment have been discovered on sale in these Arms Fairs, as Mark Thomas recounts in his book 'As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela'.
These Arms Fairs need to be stopped.
Every child deserves peace.
Arms Fairs Aren't Fair.
Let's stop the UK's role in fuelling war.
