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 9 يوليو: اليوم العالمي لتدمير الأسلحة الصغيرة
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حسب البيان والتقرير:
هنالك 640 مليون قطعة سلاح حول العالم
يتم تصنيع 8 مليون قطعة جديدة كل عام
عدد الشركات المصنعة حول العالم يبلغ 1249، وتنتشر في 90 دولة
معدل انتشار الأسلحة الصغيرة في العالم هو قطعة لكل 10 أشخاص
قبالة كل قطعة يتم تدميرها، تنتشر 10 قطع سلاح أخري
وتواصل حكوماتنا المتتالية تسليح القبائل، المراحيل، المرتزقة، المليشيات والجنجويد!!!
تتعدد الأسماء، والخطأ/الجريمة واحدة، والنتائج هي دائما قتل، دمار، والمزيد من العشوائية والانفلات الأمني، دع عنك الأجندات الخفية!
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News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty
International
AI INDEX: ACT 30/014/2004 9 July 2004
International Gun Destruction Day marked across the world
Guns are being destroyed around the world today by victims of
gun violence marking International Gun Destruction Day. The
grass-roots action comes as the Control Arms Campaign (Oxfam,
Amnesty International and IANSA -- the International Action
Network on Small Arms) publishes figures showing that there is
now one gun for every ten people on the planet. On average
800,000 guns are destroyed every year, but the scale of the
problem of unregulated guns remains enormous - for every one gun
that is destroyed another ten new guns are created.
Weapons in the wrong hands cause hundreds of thousands of deaths
and many more casualties every year. Unregulated guns are
involved in crime, killings, forced displacement, rape and
torture across the world.
"Gun Destruction Day is a time when ordinary people across the
world take positive action to tackle the gun problem head on.
But with ten new guns produced for every one destroyed, ordinary
people's efforts are being undermined by governments' refusal to
act - a case of one-step forward ten steps back. Without an
international Arms Trade Treaty, local efforts to address the
problem will continue to be sabotaged by government inaction and
guns will continue to get into the wrong hands" said Barbara
Stocking, Director of Oxfam.
Figures show that:
* There are approximately 640 million guns in circulation --
one for every ten people.
* Around eight million new guns are made every year.
* Approximately 14 billion rounds of military ammunition are
made every year -- two bullets for every person.
* Small arms are produced by 1249 companies in more than 90
countries. In some of these countries trade controls are almost
non-existent.
* For the two biggest arms producers -- USA and Russia --
production of military style guns is increasing.
* Far from destroying old and surplus weapons, most states
resell their surplus weaponry thus ensuring the ever-increasing
proliferation of guns across the world.
* Only three countries in the world (Nigeria, Latvia and
South Africa) have a policy of destroying all surplus or
confiscated weapons. There are well-documented cases of sold-off
weapons ending up in the hands of criminals and rebels.
* On average, around one million guns are lost or stolen
every year.
* Hundreds of thousands of guns are lost by state forces
every year.
* Iraq was the most extreme example, when millions of
weapons were looted in 2003. At least 650,000 tons of weaponry
and explosives were captured by US and Allied forces from
abandoned military depots across Iraq, but this was barely
guarded and much was looted.
"Every day millions of men, women, and children live in fear of
armed violence. The proliferation of unregulated guns not only
jeopardizes people's fundamental right to life, but also denies
millions the right to a decent standard of living, health
services and education. The global trade in arms must be brought
under control," said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty
International.
Survivors of gun violence, victims' families and arms
campaigners are destroying guns across the world:
* In Brazil 6,500 illegal firearms confiscated by police
will be destroyed by Viva Rio, the Brazilian Army, and the Rio
state government. Oscar Niemeyer, the famous Brazilian
architect, will use the destroyed guns to make a monument to
peace.
* In South Africa gun control groups will be working with
the government to publicly destroy a cache of illegal arms. This
will mark the coming into force of the new firearms control act
- aiming to drain the pool of arms in communities.
* In the UK families who have lost their children to armed
violence will be using a steamroller to crush 300 symbolic guns
in London.
* In Cambodia, a flame of peace ceremony will be held at
which 4,000 illegal and surplus weapons will be destroyed.
International gun destruction day marks the culmination of the
Global Week of Action Against Small Arms, in which groups in
over 40 countries across the world have taken the initiative to
challenge armed violence in their communities.
"It is conventional weapons that are the real weapons of mass
destruction. It's about time that governments put as much effort
into controlling the arms trade as they do trying to stop the
spread of WMD" said Rebecca Peters, IANSA Director.
Notes:
International Gun Destruction Day was established by the UN in
2001. The figures above are based on the Small Arms Survey 2004.
For more information visit
http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maacqORaa8g5fbb0g6Xb/
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