Thursday, October 26, 2006

The real WMDs...

When the world gawks with suspense at the nuclearisation saga in several regions, one giant killer is silently relegated to background. Labeled as the ‘weapons of mass destruction in slow motion’ by United Nation’s Secretary General Kofi Annan, the proliferation of small weapons and light arms has caused immense misery and death in several conflict zones of the world. According to the International Red Cross, rifles, rocket launchers, pistols and grenades have known to cause approximately 3 million deaths in the last decade. The most commonly known variant, the AK-47 almost numbers 50 million world wide, enough to exterminate a sizeable chunk of world’s population.

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Source:- IIPM Editorial

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