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Phil Miller
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Chief reporter @DeclassifiedUK. Wrote a book about mercenaries - https://t.co/YTHzPoCWc9 Email: phil@declassifieduk.org
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I've been looking at where British rocket launchers for Ukraine have ended up.

Five were obtained by Sergei Korotkikh, who founded Russia's National Socialist Society and is accused of beheading a migrant - he's been fighting for Ukraine since 2014

declassifieduk.org/revealed-russi… Image The rocket launchers, which cost about £20k each, were also obtained by man convicted of torture by a Kyiv court.

@CAATuk says the findings are "very troubling" and UK monitoring of weapons sent to Ukraine is "not good enough"
declassifieduk.org/pro-isis-fight…
Oct 17, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Questions arising from Labour's new Qatar world cup "boycott" policy.

1. Will the boycott extend to UK support for Qatar's military e.g. the RAF joint squadron with Qatar? 2. Would a Labour government review claims of Qatar's links to terrorism, including militia groups NATO backed in 2011 to topple Gaddafi?
Jul 21, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
The current head of MI6, Richard Moore, is giving a talk at the Aspen Security Forum MI6 chief says Putin has made "epic fails" in Ukraine and has only made "incremental progress" - "it's tiny amounts, and we're talking about a small number of miles of advance, and when they take a town, there's nothing left of it. It is obliterated."
May 24, 2021 • 74 tweets • 27 min read
A protester in Salalah holds a sign saying: "From Dhofar to Sohar". He is showing solidarity with activists in a city 850km away from him. There is dissent at both ends of Oman Image Omani police jeeps and coaches speed through Salalah. Are we about to see another crackdown? The coaches could be carrying extra riot police and/or they will take lots of protesters to prison
May 23, 2021 • 57 tweets • 19 min read
10 years since Arab Spring protesters were rounded up, shot and killed in Oman, protesters are back on the streets of Sohar today - in a Gulf country where supposedly everyone loves the regime

#صحار Image British-trained Omani riot police have already been deployed in large numbers, and some videos show protesters fleeing. Other videos filmed secretly from passing cars, suggesting fear of reprisals for covering protest ImageImageImage
Apr 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Some interesting points from Alan Duncan's diary so far.

1. Philip Hammond's lack of concern for suffering in Yemen when he was Foreign Secretary at start of the war Image 2. Duncan's own role dealing with Ecuador government in attempt to remove Assange from the embassy ImageImage
Jan 28, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
1. UK government ministers and top brass have done some really essential international travel this month. Let's see where we've paid for them to visit, while we've been in lockdown: 2. Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab absolutely had to visit Sudan - where he elbow bumped a military leader accused of killing protesters
Dec 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Labour is angry the govt has cut spending on the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund, which has trained police in Gulf dictatorships and genocidal Sri Lanka. In 2018 Labour said the Fund was "controversial and opaque" and should be scrapped altogether labour.org.uk/press/kate-osa… If Lisa Nandy wants to protect national security, why is she defending a fund that was used to train Burmese military officers in the UK? globaljustice.org.uk/resources/conf…
Aug 7, 2020 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
On this day last month, Britain's trade secretary @trussliz resumed new arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in #Yemen, claiming there was no pattern of war crimes. Since then, 17 children have reportedly been killed in 3 airstrikes on civilian targets @declassifiedUK @tradegovuk On 12 July, the UN said "an air strike killed seven children and two women in Washhah District in Hajjah Governorate in north-west Yemen. Another two children and two women were injured and rushed to Abs Hospital for treatment." reliefweb.int/report/yemen/s… @DefenceHQ
May 12, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Here's a thread about the @EHRC, to explain the difference between state-funded human rights watchdog and independent human rights researchers. In 2015 I worked for a small research group called @CorpWatchUK - we had just 5 paid staff I spent 6 months running a secret filming investigation of Britain's biggest immigration detention centre, Harmondworth, which had just been taken over by a FTSE 250 outsourcing giant called Mitie