112 Chin-Hao Huang, “Bridging the Gap” Analysis of China’s export controls against international standards, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Counter-Proliferation Programme, April 2012, p. 10, 113 Chin-Hao Huang, “Bridging the Gap” Analysis of China’s export controls against international standards, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Counter-Proliferation Programme, April 2012, p. 14; M. Bromley, M. Duchâtel and P. Holtom, China’s Exports of Small Arms and Light Weapons, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 38, p. 19, available at http://books.sipri.org/ files/PP/SIPRIPP38.pdf 114 M. Bromley, M. Duchâtel and P. Holtom, China’s Exports of Small Arms and Light Weapons, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 38, p. 19. 115 Chin-Hao Huang, “Bridging the Gap” Analysis of China’s export controls against international standards, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Counter-Proliferation Programme, April 2012, p. 14. 116 See www.wassenaar.org/introduction/index.html 117 Council Regulation (EC) No 1236/2005 of 27th June 2005 concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, published in Official Journal of the European Union, L200/1, 30 July 2005, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri =OJ:L:2005:200:0001:0019:EN:PDF 118 See Overview of US Export Control System, www.state.gov/strategictrade/overview/ 119 Report of the Panel of Experts on Liberia submitted pursuant to paragraph 5(e) of Security Council resolution 1792 (2007) concerning Liberia (S/2008/371), p. 12, available at http://www.poa-iss.org/CASAUpload/ELibrary/S-2008-371Ex-Liberia-E.pdf 120 See Amnesty International Annual Report entry for Uganda, 2011, available at http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/ uganda/report-2011 121 Uganda Human Rights Commission 13th Annual Report, 2010, p. 17, available at http://www.uhrc.ug/?wpfb_dl=41 122 Daily Monitor, ‘Police arm heavily ahead of elections,’ January 17 2011, available at http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/ National/-/688334/1090988/-/cisuqtz/-/index.html; The Independent, ‘Chinese fever’, 25 March 2012, available at http:// www.independent.co.ug/news/news-analysis/5463-chinese-fever; images, such as this one, http://twitpic.com/4nhh1n show teargas grenades identical to those manufactured in China. Orders reportedly continued after the election. 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