Monday, October 20, 2003

One death a minute: toll of the booming arms trade

From the "Independent"
By Cahal Milmo
10 October 2003
"In Somalia, babies are named 'Uzi' and 'AK' after their fathers' favourite assault rifles. In Georgia, arms are so common that English teachers have been paid in hand grenades. In Yemen, the birth of a boy is greeted by tribal leaders with shouts of: 'We have increased by one gun.'"

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