Articles by George Gao

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“Merchants of Death” Fly under the Radar of U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
George Gao – Inter Press Service-IPS, 1 Apr 2013

They justify in the most compelling ways that what they do is actually good for the world, using phrases like ‘in defence of humanity’ and ‘arming people to keep the peace’. While Bout sits in a jail, the UN is concluding an Arms Trade Treaty that hopes to control a trillion-dollar industry and curtail the use of arms for human rights violations. But “arms brokering” in general was hardly brought up during ATT negotiations.

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“Pregnant, Chained to a Wall and Starved”, One of 136 Terror War Stories
George Gao – Inter Press Service-IPS, 11 Feb 2013

Shedding new light on a chapter of the U.S. “war on terror” that has largely remained shrouded in secrecy, the Open Society Justice Initiative released a report Tuesday [5 Feb 2013] detailing the cases of 136 individuals who were extraordinarily rendered or secretly detained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Entitled “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition”, the report confirms the undisclosed prisons known as “black sites”.

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