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UK's arms export supervisor attacks NGOs over Yemen deaths @GrahamJones_MP
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Jones told the defence select committee that NGOs were “dishonest” in their reporting. “We see it time and time again with regards to airstrikes – there is a gross exaggeration by NGOs as to what has happened. You just have to pick up the newspaper.
He said many civilian deaths were because Houthi forces placed human shields in the way of the west’s allies. “I never read from the NGO community the huge problem we have now where human shields are being used.
In a message turning downan interview request, he said: “The main problem is Iran to Yemen, not [the] west to Yemen, which is nothing more than a political agenda rather than factual presentation. Too many on this bandwagon.”
