The Small Arms Trade
| By: GRITtv Wednesday February 18, 2009 2:30 pm |
| By: GRITtv Wednesday February 18, 2009 2:30 pm |
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms, a new documentary from Sander Francken, explores the world of small weapon’s dealers and how weapons used by the United Nations and NATO in places like the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere are “recycled” throughout the developing world, especially Africa. There are no international regulations governing the trade in small arms and, according to Francken, there are some 840,000 small arms circulating worldwide.
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