Osam:
Do not let the imperialist decieve you. open your third eye my friend. It has been known Organizations such as OXFAM, are nothing other then the third hand of the some British Government. If there are issue which the British Governemnt does not want to directly confront, then the British Government will dispatch OXFAM..for the unsuspecting african peasant, you really can never suspect that OXfAM and the British Government are one and the some...like they say the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. But the brain knows exactly what both the left and the right hand are doing!!
Sam, we all know that the British have been supplying Yoweri Museveni with weapons for the last twenty years...of course not directly..but rather through the third party..say like through South Africa, Eritrea, Egypt.or even Kenya's Moi.
aand now you begin to wonder as to what politics is OXFAm tryi
ng to
play? and they once more trying to hoodwink the poor black backwards natives of Africa? preze give me a break!!
MK
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Wednesday March 1, 3:46 PM
Oxfam slams loophole for British arms exporters to Uganda
British charity Oxfam has criticised Britain for a legal loophole
that allowed the sale of military equipment to Uganda which were
used to violently quell opposition demonstrations.
Oxfam said that a South African-based subsidiary company of British
defence and aerospace giant BAE Systems had supplied armoured
vehicles to the east African nation despite political concerns which
led to London to suspend some aid last year.
The Oxford-based group said that under the current British export
control legislation, arms manufacturers that cannot sell directly to
a foreign country can nevertheless do so legally by using offshore
subsidiaries.
"Loopholes in British arms laws have allowed the sale of military
equipment to the Uganda government," Oxfam said in a report.
"The lack of international controls on the arms trade is making a
mockery of national arms laws," said Phil Bloomer, Oxfam's policy
director.
"This report shows that loopholes are allowing subsidiaries of
British companies to make weapons sales that British based companies
would not have had authorised."
Bloomer said that proceeds accrued from sales by subsidiary
companies, even if not directly sold by Britain, were beneficial to
parent companies.
According to the Oxfam report, Lands Systems OMC -- the South
African subsidiary -- has sol d Uganda at least 32 armoured vehicles
since 2002, with the latest delivery of 12 vehicles brought in
shortly before the February 23 elections won by incumbent President
Yoweri Museveni.
The vehicles were used to quell demonstrations in Kampala in
November following the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye
after returning from exile in South Africa, the report said, adding
that they were also used by the army to patrol an opposition rally
in which at least two people were killed and several injured.
Security officials also used the vehicles to disperse opposition
supporters four days before polling day, which also resulted in
injuries, two of them serious.
"While the British government condemns human rights abuses in
Uganda, a subsidiary of a British company sells weapons. The result
is armoured vehicles being used against civilians and the proceeds
from these sales lining pockets of British companies," Bloomer added.
"Whilst there is no suggestion that British companies have opted to
pursue offshore subsidiaries as a deliberate attempt to bypass UK
export laws, the consequence of this lack of control is that
subsidiaries can and have exported weapons to countries that would
have not received export licences from the UK," the report said.
The group called for several measures to clamp down on the military
sales:
-- making firms in which British companies have majority
shareholding subjected to the country's export controls
-- instituting multilateral legally-binding measures such as the
Arms Trade Treaty
-- increasing transparency in trade.
"The proposed international Arms Trade Treaty would close these
loopholes by ensuring global standards exist -- stopping sales to
regimes that abuse human rights," Oxfam said in the report.
The group noted that while Britain has lobbied for an international
Arms Trade Treaty it has failed to show leadership at the United
Nations to make it a reality, nor has it tightened loopholes to stop
the sale of arms to regimes that violate human rights.
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