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Western arms helped the Pro-Gaddafi Libyan forces to massacre the rebels and general people against the regime, as recently revealed by the EU documents.
European and British companies involved in Libya supplied Libya with hundreds of millions of pounds military equipments which are now used by Pro-Gaddafi armed forces to defeat the insurgency with the regime of Muammar Gaddafi and killing the people! Gaddafi’s strength was accelerated highly by supply of arms and equipments from allured Europeans!
The EU’s latest report on arms control, published in January, said Member States issued licenses for the sale of 293.2 million pounds of arms and weapons to Libya in 2009 alone.
Britain issued gun licenses of businesses for sale at £ 21,700,000 worth of weapons, ammunition, ordinance, aircraft parts, equipment and armored protection and defense electronics.
Malta, which has issued licenses worth £ 67,900,000 was the largest European supplier of weapons to Libya in 2009. The sale, which were almost certainly re-export of equipment purchased elsewhere, is composed entirely of small arms – the type of equipment currently used by Libyan forces fired on unarmed demonstrators, killed and massacred them.
Germany issued licenses for the sale of £47e_STnS million military hardware, most of the vehicles and spare parts. France, approved and supplied the sale of 20.6 million pounds and Belgium, for a total of 19,040,000 pounds.
The sale was part of an intense competition between Russian and European producers. Libya launched a rearmament modest start in 2004 when the U.S. and the EU lifted the sanctions because of its support for terrorist groups.
Libya ordered a £ 79 million tactical information and control system from General Dynamics UK to break the 32nd Brigade, commanded by a son Col Gaddafi, Khamis. It has been described in a diplomatic cable leakage U.S. as one of the last three gap "regime protection units."
Libya also ordered and took supply of new T-90 tanks and T-72 and S-30 air defense missiles from Russia, armored vehicles from Jordan, trucks from the United Arab Emirates, and Milan anti-tank missiles of France. The French also agreed to upgrade aging Libya Mirage F-1 fighters, while Russia’s contract to supply Su-30 and S-35 jets – but it is unclear whether they were delivered.
European arms companies have often complained about their interests were being undermined by groups of human rights. For example, Belgium was forced to revoke a permit issued to FN Herstal to sell arms to Libya, after a campaign led by groups of human rights.
Britain closed the York-based company shipping 130,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles to Libya in 2008, fearing he would be transferred to the warlords in Sudan. The agreement was subsequently taken into Romanian.
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