Governments also to blame for atrocities

✒ THE latest bomb and rocket casualties in Gaza and Yemen are as much American and British responsibility as the people who press the buttons to kill the buses of schoolchildren or pregnant women.

The people who make these terrible weapons should be surrounded by pictures of the results of their efforts.

I know that the excuse for our Government and the arms manufacturers will be that if we don’t make them someone else will.

This was the excuse of the Holocaust perpetrators and all the unlawful wars which have followed.

The workers who make the messengers of death and suffering could be far better employed building prefab buildings or modernising our road and rail systems, perhaps we could export prefab houses or hospitals. Our leaders could negotiate the sale of these goods for the good of the world.

G Williams Tuffley