Amnesty Condemns ‘Reckless Arms Trading’ as Enabling ISIL War Crimes

 

By Adrian Lancashire | With AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Amnesty International has published a scathing analysis of the weapons in the hands of the radical Islamic State movement (ISIL).

According to the human rights defender, the arsenal used to commit atrocities in Iraq and Syria comes from more than two dozen countries, including the United States and European Union countries.

The report ‘Taking Stock: the Arming of Islamic State’ describes how much of this was looted from Iraq, where the army’s stockpile swelled in the late 1970s and in the 1980s, especially during the Iran-Iraq war.

At least 34 different countries supplied Iraq with weapons; 28 of those states supplied Iran at the same time.

Amnesty also highlights that during and after the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq was again flooded with weapon imports, many of them never adequately secured, and therefore unaccounted for. 

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Source: Euronews