Where is the Chinese Arms Shipment?
April 20, 2008 9:05 amThe Guardian reports this morning that there were conflicting reports yesterday as to the destination of the Chinese ship turned away from South Africa after dockers in Durban refused to unload a cargo of weapons destined for Zimbabwe and a legal rights group won a court order blocking the delivery.
The An Yue Jiang was at first reported by a human rights group to be headed for Mozambique but was later said to be heading south, possibly destined for a friendlier port in Namibia or Angola.
The Guardian reported yesterday: “Helen Zille, the leader of South Africa’s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, warned that the shipment could result in carnage of ‘genocidal proportions’. Pointing out that a consignment of Chinese machetes had prefaced the genocide in Rwanda, she said: “The mind boggles when one considers the damage that could be done with the consignment of arms sitting in Durban harbour.”
Ruth
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Ruthie, I am so glad you care enough to make sure all your loyal readers (even if we all do not comment) know the status of this on-going potentially deadly crisis. Once I read that the dock workers in S.A. had taken things into their own hands, when their own government would not, and refused to unload the arms, I was terribly hopeful that there is some sanity in this world of ours.
Leaving in a week. Hooray!
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