E-mail Liz Truss: Stop DSEI!

In September 2021, Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), the world’s largest arms fair, returns to London. At DSEI, weapons and military technology will be marketed to representatives of repressive states fuelling racism and injustice.

Yet, DSEI goes ahead with full support from the UK Government, through Defence & Security Exports, part of Department for International Trade. This support is crucial for DSEIs existence.

Take action to demand that the UK Government immediately end all support for DSEI and commit to ensure it does not take place. E-mail Liz Truss, Secretary of State for International Trade.

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Dear Rt Hon. Liz Truss MP, In September 2021, Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), the world’s largest arms fair, returns to London. At DSEI, weapons and military technology will be marketed to representatives of repressive states fuelling racism and injustice. 
DSEI goes ahead with full support from the UK Government, through the UK Defence & Security Exports, part of Department for International Trade. This support is crucial for DSEIs existence.
Through DSEI, London will play host to delegations from a range of human rights abusing states, who will look to buy and sell repressive military technology.
This includes Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the UAE. The Saudi-led coalition, of which Bahrain and the UAE are part, has subjected Yemen to a ceaseless bombardment for almost 6 years, creating the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. As documented by grassroots human rights groups on the ground, including <a href="https://mwatana.org/en/i-ripped-iv-out-of-my-arm">Mwatana,</a> and international organisations <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/09/yemen-the-forgotten-war/">Amnesty International,</a> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/yemen">Human Rights Watch</a>, and the <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1079232">United Nations</a>, the Saudi-led coalition has committed a litany of violations of international law, killing thousands of Yemeni civilians.
In addition, Israel is a seasoned attendee of the fair. Israel operates an oppressive regime of military control over the Palestinian people in the territory it illegally occupies, as part of a system of racial discrimination over all Palestinian people. A range of scholars, legal experts and human rights organisations, including recently Israel’s largest NGO <a href="https://www.btselem.org/apartheid">B’Tselem,</a> have noted that this system amounts to the crime of apartheid under international law.
Part of this system includes subjecting Palestinians in besieged Gaza to regular indiscriminate bombardments. The <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/coigazaconflict/pages/commissionofinquiry.aspx">UN Commission of Enquiry</a> into Israel’s 2014 aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza found reasonable grounds to believe that Israel had committed war crimes in its indiscriminate targeting of civilians.
These examples are just the tip of the iceberg. Yet, DSEI goes ahead with full support from the UK Government, through Defence & Security Exports, part of Department for International Trade. This support is crucial for DSEIs existence.
I demand that the UK Government immediately end all support for DSEI and commit to ensure it does not take place.
Taking these actions would be one step towards ending the UKs support for injustice and abuses of human rights.

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