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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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25 Jan 2006 01:22:22 AM |
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OT: One death every minute |
One death every minute
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1694004,00.html
The arms trade makes big money for the richest nations while fuelling
conflict across the world
Bianca Jagger
Wednesday January 25, 2006
The Guardian
Cinema-goers will be shocked this week to see an advert selling them
AK47 machine guns, alongside the ads for cars and soft drinks. It's a
spoof by Amnesty International, sending up TV shopping channels to draw
attention to the appalling ease with which weapons are bought and sold
around the world. But the reality is far more shocking.
As a human rights campaigner, I've visited countless countries where
people suffer terrible abuses. Women raped at gunpoint during the
conflict in the Balkans, police killings of street children in Brazil,
the horrors committed during conflicts in central Africa. Behind so
many of these atrocities is one common factor: the gun. Around the
world, arms facilitate abuse. Torture, "disappearances", rape, all take
place at gunpoint. And behind that gun is the arms dealer, profiting
from a trade that's barely regulated and spiralling out of control.
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| User: "Ken" |
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| Title: Re: OT: One death every minute |
25 Jan 2006 08:08:39 PM |
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:22:22 -0800, maff wrote:
police killings of street children in Brazil
I admit to having more sympathy for arms dealers than is probably normal
for this group...
That said, can we really blame police murders on arms dealers? If
anything they allow people to resist over-reaching police in places
like Brazil. They just turned down a national gun control law primarily
because they distrust their police.
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Ken
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