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The Rapid Support Forces militia is committing genocide in Darfur in western Sudan, in the course of its civil war with Sudan's military rulers. The RSF is armed by the United Arab Emirates, a western ally in teh Gulf which receives huge arms supplies from France, the US, the UK and others. UK military equipment

CAAT welcomes the ceasefire in Gaza. An end, at least for now, to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, and the release of Israeli and Palestinian hostages, is an enormous relief. However, no-one should imagine that this ceasefire represents an end to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, still less to the decades-long occupation, apartheid, and dispossession of

The act of recognition of Palestine by the UK must be the start of a serious effort to end the genocide and pursue real, practical steps towards securing Palestinian freedom.

CAAT condemns the signing yesterday of a Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and Turkey for the potential sale of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft by the UK to Turkey.

David Lammy falsely claimed that the UK is not exporting military equipment for use by Israel in Gaza, ignoring the F-35 components the government has specifically chosen to continue supplying, as an exception to the UK's export control criteria.

Negotiations appear to be nearing a conclusion for the sale of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft to Turkey by the UK. Turkey under President Erdogan is a highly authoritarian regime, engaged in deepening repression of political opposition, and a brutal war against both its own Kurdish population and Kurdish regions in neighbouring Iraq and Syria.

This report shows the UK’s arms system is unethical and unaccountable and in desperate need of radical reform.

These figures show that this government is deeply complicit in genocide and human rights abuses.