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| Rhetoric Versus Reality:
the Role of U.S. Arms Transfers in Human Rights Violations
[8-30-01]
The U.S. is the world's major supplier of arms - providing 54% of all
weapons delivered to the world in 1999. While we proclaim loudly our
commitment to human rights, our actions as weapons-supplier to the world
make those claims look like major hypocrisy.
The World
Policy Institute web site provides strong evidence for this in its
posting of the testimony of William D. Hartung, Director of the Arms
Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute at New School
University. He spoke to the Subcommittee on International Operations and
Human Rights, House International Relations Committee, on March 7, 2001.
Drawing on both government documents and
non-governmental groups, he looks specifically at our dealings with
Indonesia, Turkey, Colombia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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