The British government says it is investigating reports of the utilization of UK-made cluster bombs by Saudi Arabia during its ongoing war on Yemen, with the European country’s senior military official dismissing any kind of “involvement” in the conflict.
The investigation was triggered after Amnesty International said on Monday it had documented the use of cluster ammunition by Saudis in Yemen and that the ammunition had been manufactured in Britain in the 1970s.
The human rights group said it found a partially-exploded BL-755 cluster bomb which had apparently malfunctioned in a remote village near the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border.
Britain is believed to have sold many such munitions, prohibited in over a 100 countries since the 1980s and 90s, to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – a Saudi ally.
On Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (pictured above) responded to the claims saying, “The MoD (Ministry of Defense) is now…