No dialogue with tanks and soldiers
With hardly any foreign journalist in the country the little news that is getting out of Syria comes through people who take…
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Supplier of Libyan cluster bombs claims compensation
In April The New York Times and Human Rights Watch revealed that Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi had used cluster bombs…
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Spring sales at the Dutch military
In April Dutch Defence minister Hillen announced long-expected defence cuts as part of austerity measures in response to the economic crisis. As…
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Escalating border conflict no problem for Dutch arms trade with Thailand
The Thai-Cambodian border conflict has escalated over the past months. On 22 April at least six soldiers were killed and thousands of…
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Global arms industry targets growth market in Rio
According to the latest figures of peace research institute SIPRI the world’s military spending continued its upward trend in 2010 with an…
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Damen expanding in Vietnam
Dutch shipyard group Damen has signed a contract with the Vietnamese government aiming at a “step up in cooperation and transfer of…
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Airbus Military manipulates Oxfam figure to bolster arms sales
Something that has struck me for years is the rather explicit nature of arms industry advertising. All military magazines have them. Promoting…
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Arms trade with Libya: yes-no-yes-no
Last year the potential sale of night vision equipment to Libya was debated at the highest government level in the Netherlands. Documents…
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Security concerns in Yemen
For weeks protesters in Yemen have called for an end to president Saleh’s 33-year-long rule. In response, the president sent tanks onto…
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Europe’s oldest embargo – arms sales to superpower China
15 Mar 2011, Frank Slijper
After the bloody suppression of protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, the European Union (and the…
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