Saturday, February 04, 2006

Death and industry



Astounding, Claire Marie White,
http://whitellama.blogspot.com, a British historian/journalist has invited the world to participate in a retreat conmemorating 12 years of the Rwanda massacre. Reading the history and research the initiative publishes in http://www.mdonkin.f2s.com/neveragain/index.php/Kivu_retreat I came upon the name Dominique Lemmonier, a French arms trader and his history. I then checked a Wiki discussion on the responsibilities of governments and private arms traders in French wikipedia where M. Lemmonier is mentioned. Finally, to my horror, I read that the Los Angeles, U.S.A. arms company Ducommun has acquired Miltec Corporation, one of the parties involved in providing the arms used in the genocide. So I checked who were the new arms dealers and how they saw themselves. A real encyclical letter is provided by the smiling CEO of Decommun, Joseph Berenato, in http://www.ducommun.com/ceo.html A taste of the world to come? How far away we are from these dealings in the common world!

2 comments:

Beatriz Valenzuela said...

terrible, pero cierto.Algo de ello ayudará a pensar a muchos fans de U2, Bono hablará de esto y Mary Rogers habla de lo suyo en su blog.

gracias
bea

Cursivas said...

Triste.

Saludos,