Global small arms kill triple the number thought: U.N. report

[justinsb]

Global small arms kill triple the number thought: U.N. report

Last Updated Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:15:18 EDT
CBC News

Small arms fire kills as many as three times more people than previously thought, according to a United Nations report published on Monday.

The study found that deaths from small arms, such as pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars and hand-held rocket launchers, likely totalled 80,000 to 108,000 for 2003.

Previous estimates of 27,000 to 51,000 deaths a year were based largely on government and media reporting on wars, which the study said is often inaccurate because reporters are unable to enter war zones to verify reports.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/07/11/arms050711.html

[justinsb]

1. The global arms trade needs to be banned outright. n/t

[MisterP]

2. but where will Carlyle and Victor Bout get the money for their new boat in

Curacao?

[PaulaFarrell]

3. more blood on *'s hands

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4218155,00.html

Bush triggers fresh arms trade row
Ewen MacAskill - Diplomatic Editor
Guardian

Monday July 9, 2001


The US president, George Bush, is about to spark a transatlantic row over a UN conference which opens today aiming to reduce the 500m Kalashnikovs and other small arms contributing to worldwide carnage.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/printer_101103C.shtml

War On Terror Fuels Small Arms Trade
Owen Bowcott and Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian

Friday 10 October 2003


Charities say 500,000 people are killed each year by the real weapons of mass destruction
The "war on terror" has weakened national arms controls and fuelled the proliferation of conventional weapons, a coalition of leading human rights charities warned yesterday. Launching a global campaign to regulate the arms trade, Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the International Network on Small Arms said that on average 500,000 people were killed each year by armed violence - roughly one victim a minute

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DUB112B.html

3. UN Agreement to Curb the International Flow of Illicit Small Arms, July 2001: the US was the only nation to oppose it.

http://www.wmsa.net/nyt_010711.htm

The Clinton administration was at the forefront of international efforts to curtail small-arms trafficking, and American laws restricting the export of these weapons are models for international standards. But the N.R.A. and other groups have claimed that international curbs on small-arms trafficking represent an attempt by the United Nations to interfere with American domestic firearms policy. Mr. Bolton's address faithfully followed the N.R.A. script.