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Bahrain uses UK-supplied weapons in protest crackdown | World news | The Guardian

18.2.11

Bahrain uses UK-supplied weapons in protest crackdown | World news | The Guardian: "The British government has launched a review of arms exports to Bahrain after it emerged that the country's security forces were supplied with weapons by the United Kingdom.

After a bloody crackdown in the capital, Manama, left up to five people dead and more than 100 injured, Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt said the government will 'urgently revoke licences if we judge that they are no longer in line with the [UK and European Union] criteria'."

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