ONN wants input towards a crowd-sourced project that explains the range and impact of the UK government sponsored DSEi arms fair.
In late February, a handful of activists will go to court charged with blocking the highway outside the DSEi arms fair. Yet their action was trying to prevent crimes against humanity, including the sale of torture equipment and weapons that kill indiscriminately.
Here is more details on the Where is the Wrong campaign that will effectively put the arms trade on trial.
In support of this we want to create a crowd sourced document/ article / collection of works focusing on: What crimes against humanity are facilitated by the DSEi arms fair?
Below is an indicative list of crimes committed at the recent fairs, but there is far more research that could be done, for instance on the firms that attend the arms fair, on where these weapons are sold, on the revolving door between Whitehall and the military industrial complex, on other countries invited…
To contribute, add the information in the comment section below – importantly please source all information with hyperlinks.
If this idea works – we will publish an article or collection of articles towards the middle of February.
Indicative research:
Weapons to be used for the purpose of torture.
2013 Handheld projectile electric shock weapons, weighted leg cuffs, and Stun batons (New Internationalist )
2011 Torture equipment Amnesty
2007 Banned leg restraints sold Telegraph
2005 Stun guns, stun batons and leg-irons New Statesman & Parliamentary records
Weapons that indiscriminately kill civilians, and/or complicity in acts of genocide and/ or war crimes (e.g.) selling weapons banned by international treaties
2011 Banned weapons – Cluster bombs Guardian
2009 & 2011 Cluster bombs Land mine and cluster bomb monitor
2007 Landmines Guardian
2005 Cluster Bombs Independent
2013 Drones: An Amnesty report in Pakistan asserts, “Drones kill more civilians than their intended targets.” Amnesty
While the human suffering was exemplified in the testimony given by the family of a grandmother killed by the weapon, which was the first time Congress heard directly from a victim. Guardian
They were centre stage and an even bigger presence is planned for DSEI 2015: DSEi
c: Knowingly selling (or promoting companies that sell) weapons to countries that will kill on mass, commit abuses, deny human rights…
2013 Arms dealers that supply Syria Huffpost
The official invitation list for DSEi 2013 reveals delegations from 14 authoritarian regimes including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan, and 6 countries at war including Afghanistan and Iraq. For details see: Delegation list CAAT
2011 Invitees include: Bahrain, Egypt, Turkey Saudi Arabia, each of whom turned weapons on democracy protesters since. 2009 (CAAT)
Chinese delegates invited – despite arms embargo imposed since Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989. BBC
2007 “Several countries with bad human rights records, including Libya, Saudi Arabia, China, and Indonesia, were invited to attend the event this year.” Guardian
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Callout for crowd-sourced research on UK military industrial complex
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