War Criminals Gather In London For World's Largest Arms Fair
Not to be outdone, thousands of anti-war protesters make their presence known at the event.
Thousands of activists are expected to gather at the United Kingdom’s
largest international arms fair in London next month. Attended by
hundreds of arms companies with exhibits representing over 1,500 arms
firms, the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) Exhibition
brings representatives from the world’s most oppressive regimes
together in one place to sell military weapons, including those from
Israel, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
DSEI is a bi-annual event held at ExCel Exhibition Centre in London’s
Docklands, one of the largest of its kind anywhere in the world with
32,000 visitors expected including 150 delegations from over 60
countries.
But critics of DSEI are planning a series of protests to highlight
the fact that nations such as Britain and the United States supply
weaponry to nations with appalling human rights records. Their customers
created some of the world’s most dire human rights disasters that ended
in apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Middle East and
Africa.
With the United States as the world’s largest weapons exporter, DSEI’s website states that American weapons manufacturers including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have booked a
significant amount of space at DSEI with 190 firms due to attend.
Smaller American weapons specialist companies will also be in
attendance.
Military representatives of Dubai, inspects the goods at the 2013 DSEi international arms fair.
