'War Is Good for Business,' Declares Executive at London's Global Arms Fair

Trigger HappyOutside the sprawling ExCel convention center in London's Docklands, anti-war protesters rallied against the global arms trade and the death and destruction it fuels.that at least a dozen demonstrators were arrested during the course of the conference, including nine on Thursday for blocking a road outside the venue.that "a lot of countries that are being talked about as new arms export markets are ones we would be concerned about.

"Egypt is a repressive regime and Vietnam an absolute dictatorship," Perlo-Freeman added. "Indonesia is involved in brutality in West Papua."that "the companies exhibiting read as a who's-who of the world's worst arms dealers." "Israel is an apartheid state, and it is disgusting that the U.K. is not only selling weapons to Israel but encouraging Israeli arms companies to sell their weapons in London," she continued. "Representatives from regimes such as Saudi Arabia, who have used U.K.-made weapons to commit war crimes in Yemen, will be wined and dined and encouraged to buy yet more arms.

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