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Small
Arms Survey on
Air-Drop of
Weapons in
Syria, Yemen
by
Implication,
DPKO Qs
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, June
1 -- With the
2015 Small
Arms Survey
the topic of a
UN press
conference on
June 1, Inner
City Press
rushed there
think that
those who
breathlessly
covered the
Arms Trade
Treaty, or the
flow of
weapons into
Syria, Ukraine
and other hot
spots, would
be there as
well. But when
the time for
question and
answer came,
only Inner
City Press
(and the Free
UN Coalition
for Access)
asked
questions,
about Burundi,
the DR Congo
and Yemen.
Yemen
is the
question which
drew an on
camera answer,
not directly
criticizing
Saudi Arabia's
air-drop of
weapon to any
tribe that
says it wants
to fight the
Houthis but
doing so by
analogy,
noting that a
full crate of
weapons
air-dropped to
the Kurds to
defend Kobane
were
collected, in
fact, by ISIS.
Off
camera, Inner
City Press
gleaned more
information
about how a
government
like Burundi's
can use
service in UN
peacekeeping
missions as a
way to get
weapons, and
then use them
domestically.
A follow up
report on
diversion of
weapons for
“peacekeeping”
is coming -
watch this
site.
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