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Just six countries export a whopping 74 percent of the worlds weapons, with the US making up 35 percent of the global total.
Treaties regulate the global trade of many products even bananas and dinosaur bones but not guns and bullets. We need a strong Arms Trade Treaty that will stop tools of death from getting into the hands of people like Syrias Assad and Sudans Bashir who continue to brutalize their people.
In July, UN member countries will debate the adoption of a global Arms Trade Treaty. Take action to make sure they make the right decision to keep weapons out of the wrong hands!
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/shocking-facts-about-whos-arming-human-rights-abusers-infographic/
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)tabatha
(18,795 posts)The West has not armed the Syrian rebels because they are terrified of a larger conflict.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)war; it's about the russians, not the syrians.
same as it ever was.
and ps: i doubt very much that the 'west' has not supplied arms or other things to the syrian 'rebels'.