The International Arms Trade and Global Health  

Oleh:

Mahmudi-Azer, Salahaddin

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, page 166-172.
Topik: Global Arms Traders
Fulltext: The International Arms Trade and Global Health.pdf (135.87KB)

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Despite the superficially friendly and respectable face of the world’s current arms business, it remains as murky, secretive and amoral as it has always been. This secretive and destructive network of producers and traders of arms continues to be the driving force, and at times the initiating force, of many modern-day global confl icts in which civilians are the main victims (Burrows, 2002 ). Until the Second World War, civilian deaths were a relatively small percentage of total deaths in confl icts (about 14%). But this classical face of confl ict was changed by the mass murder of civilians in the Second World War. The genocidal campaigns against Jews, Roma and other distinct groups, together with the bombings of cities such as London, Dresden and Tokyo, and the use of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, brought civilians to the forefront of confl icts unlike any other conflicts in previous times. The nuclear bombs alone killed some 200 000 civilians instantly and caused physical and psychological damage to many more which continues even today (Coupland, 1996).

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