Burundi plea on arms shipments
Monday, 14th July 2008. 3:35pm
By: George Conger.
The Archbishop of Burundi led a delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) last week to Berlin, to press the German government to curtail its shipments of weapons to the developing world.
“Does Germany have to be the EU arms sales champion?" Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi asked State Secretary Christian Schmidt at the Defence Ministry in Berlin on July 1.
Archbishop Ntahoturi told the German government that the civil wars that have claimed the lives of millions of people in the Sudan, Zimbabwe, Somalia and the Congo were made possible by weapons manufactured outside Africa. Money spent on weapons by African governments should be redirected to disease prevention, education and social programmes designed to pull Africa out of its torpor.
Ntahoturi urged Germany to use its influence to end the sale of small arms and munitions to Africa. Schmidt told the delegation that Germany was Europe’s arms sale leader due to its concentration on high end products such as aircraft, submarines and electronics systems for its NATO allies. German law forbids manufacturers to sell arms to areas of conflict, he said.
Source: Religious Intelligence News
3 comments:
Is there anyone who has got the resopse of re-above question from this bishop?
Jewe ndiyumvira ko uyu muntu afise ivyiyumviro birashe.
yabajije ikibazo aca atanga na proposition yiyo ngorane.
We don't need only to ask questions but also to provide the alternative answers.
Aba nibo bantu bakenmwe mu Burundi.
Congratulation Mon seigneur!
JP,
Auckland Central ,
New zealand
I agree. Germany, China, USA, and many many developed countries play a double game: During the day they finance poorly the government in development projects and during the night, they ship arms to destroy those project....I am so tired of the western hypocrisy...
We need people like Mgr to keep speaking up
Abarundi bo baguma bihoreye!
None ko batavuga akabubakiye!
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