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This report sets out to examine the relationship between armed violence, international arms transfers and forced migration to the United Kingdom, drawing on original testimony from asylum seekers who fled conflict in Ethiopia, Sudan and Afghanistan. By combining investigative analysis of UK arms export licensing with detailed personal accounts of persecution, displacement and irregular journeys to Britain, it situates individual experiences within a wider political economy of war, aid retrenchment and defence expansion. While it does not claim direct causation between specific UK-manufactured weapons and particular attacks, it documents the structural overlap between states receiving British military exports and the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, alongside the humanitarian consequences that drive flight. The report argues that debates on asylum and small boat crossings cannot be disentangled from the global systems of conflict, arms supply and geopolitical alignment in which the UK is materially and diplomatically implicated.

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