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Crew of weapon-loaded Il-76 plane detained in Thai prison

Published: 16 December, 2009, 13:19
Edited: 11 February, 2010, 14:42


The crew of an Ilyushin-76 airplane loaded with almost 40 tons of weaponry from North Korea has been detained for a further 12 days in a Thai prison pending further investigation.

 
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Sarah December 14, 2009, 14:41 quote
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We want to know where these weapons were going? RT please keep digging and inform your readers whether these weapons were going to one of the conflict zones? We need to know who ordered these weapons? Who paid for them? For example, we know that in 2006, in order to circumvent the U.N weapons embargo against Somalia, the Bush administration paid for North Korean made weapons for the Ethiopian army right before the U.S authorized Ethiopia’s proxy invasion of Somalia and that these weapons were used to kill, maim thousands of women and children in Somalia.

Artyom December 16, 2009, 13:33 quote
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They mentioned that the crew faces the death penalty. However, somewhere some politician or businessman gave the order and had these things done. That is the person, if any, that should be facing problems.

Meslin December 16, 2009, 14:14 quote
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In this World's mondialisation, banks should be required to tell competent planetary or national police and justice's autorities about all strange money movements. If it concern arms or drugs trafficking, then, when premiditation is proven, the death penalty should be implimented and carry on quickly. Mankind as a whole will have to admit than, in extreme cases some humans do not deserve to live. We do not seem to have so much principes and morale, when we kill, in wars, or to keep the military-industry flourishing. Sorry Future Generations. Sincerely... Jean-Claude Meslin

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