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UK Arms dealer to Sri Lanka jailed for nine years

by admin on Feb.08, 2010, under Sri Lanka

UK Arms dealer to Sri Lanka jailed for nine years

An arms dealer from west London who traded military weapons for “totally war-like, destructive and death-dealing use” has been jailed for nine years. Gideon Sarig deliberately chose not to apply for the licence as he arranged for Uzis, pump-action shotguns, bombs and other weapons to be sent to countries including Sri Lanka and Israel. Both men were jailed for seven years each for trading 1,000 bombs from Ukraine to the Sri Lankan Army in 2005 and 3,900 rounds of 30mm armour-piercing incendiary ammunition from Serbia and Montenegro to Sri Lanka between May 6 2006 and February 15 2005.  

Sarig used contacts arranged by his co-defendant Howard Freckleton to sell the militaryand paramilitary kit to Sri Lanka’s military during its “long, protracted and bloody civil war” with the Tamil Tigers, Southwark Crown Court in London heard……….. http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/london/Arms-dealer-jailed-for-nine.6052537.jp


2 Comments for this entry

  • kavin robert
    February 11th, 2010 on 7:30 pm

    What an Asshole,
    he is, fuck me…
    Some do try do it easy
    but who loses out

    Kavin Robert

    London

  • Karuppen
    February 10th, 2010 on 11:47 am

    In Srilanka what happened before and during the war on terrorism was a testimony to the disgrace of democratic principles. State violence under the capsule of genocide against an unarmed innocent Tamil minority ended in the death toll of more than 50,000. Needless to say about the abject treatment of the Tamils incarcerated in restricted camps in sub-human sanitary conditions. Has this human tragedy jostled the law of conscience of any democratic leaders around the world to demand counter measures either in the UN or in parliaments? Democratically strong countries like the US, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Ireland, have the accountability for a policy to coalesce into a tenable political solution to the plight of Srilankan Tamils rather than waiting for any first-move country to initiate the dialogue.

    In Srilanka today armed forces are none other than state-trained criminals to plunder public trust. These criminals plunder public and individual properties, kidnap innocent Tamils for ransom money, and murder them if they do not suit their purpose. Criminals dressed like Buddhist monks are loose in the society to agitate ordinary people against the Tamils. Today with the assistance of state armed forces Tamil worship places called temples are dismantled, Tamils in some remote places are forcibly subjected to serve the Singhalese criminals who occupy their land.

    A culture as old as the time is immemorial. That Tamil culture and religion are today deteriorating under the aggression of selected Singhalese racist politicians. This is not the single state aggression of Srilankan government. It is the tacit approval of a great democratic country Union of India. As long as the Union of India remains as the single nation India, any peace talks between the Tamil and Singhalese politicians are doomed to failure. India is the major stumbling block to any peace talks in Srilankan politics. Unless and until the Union of India is disintegrated into its independent provincialities, any small nation like Srilanka in the Indian Ocean will never have a social justice. The political implosion the Union of India is experiencing now has paved the way for independent states like Telengana and other nine states in her backyard. What India sows in other countries, is mercilessly rewarded to India in her own territory. This is the lesson the Mother Nature teaches the aggressor. Chinese strong support of Maoists in India will disintegrate the Union of India before long.

    The world now needs a new and strong UN Secretary General. Mr Ban- Ki-Moon should be sacked from his post giving room for a strong leader who shows administrative capability, political acumen, quick thinking trait, calibre of strong moral strength to translate democratic principles into codes of UN accountability in global politics.

    You need the guts to do anything socially and politically constructive to help the weak and innocent people around the world.

 

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