Illegal arms trade is one of the most difficult obstacles to conflict-affected countries and the international community in the face of their intention to curb the poverty and human insecurity in general. According to the UN, the illegal arms trade contributes to increasing crime rates. As the international community has recently had an eye on the possibility of terrorist organizations, their hands on nuclear weapons, trade in small arms has in many ways identical todangerous.
Small Arms and Light on behalf of approximately 60 to 90 percent of the 100,000 deaths a year, more conflict and tens of thousands of more deaths outside of war zones, according to the UN Small Arms Survey 2005th Not to mention that small arms are the weapon of choice to continue the terrorist attacks in the recent State Department report were identified, half were committed with small arms or light weapons.
Unfortunately, due tothe environment, thrive where most of the victims of weapons tend to sacrifice innocent civilians, mostly full of a conflict that surrounds them resolved. A perfect example of social costs to victims of weapons, the use of landmines, a weapon that is problematic in itself because of its indiscriminate nature. Landmines still a world to be used over and problematic, even after the wars, landmines continue to end the worst case, the lives of innocent civilians, orpermanently maim and cripple the best.
The weapons, victims tend to be used by non-state actors, creating a constant threat of insecurity, the immense social costs. And because of the nature of global markets, it is impossible to completely stop making weapons, which is recognized by the United Nations that "the illicit trade in small arms is not a problem that is resolved, it is a problem that you can."
Therefore, the extradition of Victor Bout, the Merchant of Death, or, ascalled by the media, has been greeted with so much attention.
Thailand in mid-November has made the decision to extradite the accused Russian arms dealers in the United States to face terrorism charges. The former Soviet air force officer was arrested in the spring of 2008 after U.S. agents, a covert operation led to a luxury hotel in Bangkok as agents of guerrillas in Colombia, a willingness to buy surface to air missiles, drones without name and sophisticated anti-tank systemsthe most prolific arms traffickers.
In addition, this proposed sale has continent Bout supplied weapons used in street clothes to fuel in almost all wars. Guests its only couple in Liberia, Charles Taylor, Libyan leader Muammar el Gaddafi, and the opposing factions of the civil war Angola's only one. He also had links with the Taliban and, indirectly, to al-Qaida.
But to what extent is the person responsible for the arms trade makes it easier for many deathsin which these weapons are involved? The answer, says Matthew Schroeder and Guy Lamb, author of the illegal arms trade in Africa, is that these traffickers bore a heavy burden of responsibility. More specifically, they argued that, in several African countries, the availability of small arms (supplied by humans) in combination with protracted conflicts, led to the birth of the gun culture. " In other words, possession of weapons in these contexts, is a symbol ofState and by default is that armed violence is an acceptable method, in which everything from personal conflicts due to political or economic objectives. Although the authors explain that the trend is to develop the gun culture higher in weak states, is that weak states are more likely to be part of an illegal arms network of countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia have shown.
illicit small arms and the intensification of thatThe tensions over scarce resources. Take the example of the border between Kenya and Uganda. Low-scale cattle rustling has a feature of rural life between the countries for centuries. But in the last two decades, cattle thieves began to acquire weapons traffickers, the change in the nature of the conflict completely. Since then, "Hundreds of people have been killed and many displaced communities, was adopted by the Karamojong and Pokot pastoralists that the most importantOffenders, "said Schroeder and lamb.
The human cost of the arms trade is more complex than balancing lives lost to conflict. The illegal arms trade undermines development efforts. According to the Human Development Report 2005: "The uncertainty of an armed conflict are still a major obstacle to human development is both a cause and consequence of mass poverty is .."
Disturbing as these facts may be, is, at the time of childbirth even a Boutsmall step, or symbolic attempt to curb the arms trade in general. The fact remain that way even with Bout, the arms that did not benefit from the networks disappear.
Published: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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