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. In
December 2011, a convoy of Poly Technologies manufactured armoured vehicles with “Uganda Police” stencilled on the
body work were photographed in China before a further consignment, see: Army Recognition, http://www.armyrecognition.com/december_2011_army_military_defence_news_uk/police_forces_of_uganda_has_ordered_new_chinese_antiriot_armoured_vehicles_1812112.html
123 Human Rights Watch, Uganda: Launch Independent Inquiry Into Killings, May 2011, available at http://www.hrw.
org/news/2011/05/08/uganda-launch-independent-inquiry-killings
124 Army Recognition, ‘Security forces of Democratic Republic of Congo use a new Chinese made armoured vehicle’,
December 2011 available at http://www.armyrecognition.com/december_2011_army_military_defence_news_uk/security_forces_of_democratic_republic_of_congo_use_a_new_chinese_made_armoured_vehicle_0912111.html
125 Amnesty International submission to the UN Universal, Periodic Review: Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Sixth session of the UPR Working Group, November-December 2009, (Index: AFR62/009/2009), April 2009, available at http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR62/009/2009/en/536d63eb-4c71-4c19-bd19-c014966bb7cf/
afr620092009en.pdf; Amnesty International, Democratic Republic of the Congo annual report 2010, 2011 available at
http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/democratic-republic-congo/report-20110; http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/democratic-republic-congo/report-2011.
126 UN, Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, Mission to
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1 June 2010, A/HRC/14/24/Add.3, p.19, pa. 80, p 24 available at http://www2.
ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/14session/A.HRC.14.24.Add3.pdf
127 UN, Report of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office on Serious Human Rights Violations Committed by
Members of the Congolese Defense and Security Forces in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between
26 November and 25 December 2011, March 2012, p 4 available at http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f6c674c2.html
128 Human Rights Watch, ‘DR Congo: Rein in Security Forces’, December 2011, available at http://www.hrw.org/
news/2011/12/02/dr-congo-rein-security-forces; Amnesty International, ‘If you resist, we will shoot you’: The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the case for an effective Arms Trade Treaty, 2012, (Index: AFR62/007/2012), p. 26,
available at http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR62/007/2012/en/cdd8cdd9-913f-4dc5-8418-71d2eedbdde0/
afr620072012en.pdf
129 For background information see Amnesty International, Madagascar: Urgent need for justice: Human rights violations during the political crisis (Index: AFR 35/001/2010), February 2010, available at http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/
asset/AFR35/001/2010/en/6e05b73b-1337-4a57-b80b-4c6d3e7fef61/afr350012010en.pdf based on interviews carried
out by Amnesty International delegates in June 2009.
130 Wikileaks, ‘Security Forces Emboldened With New Equipment’, 4 Mar 2009 (published on 1 September 2011)
available at http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09ANTANANARIVO152.html, accessed March 2014
131 Amnesty International, Madagascar: Urgent need for justice: Human rights violations during the political crisis
(AFR 35/001/2010), February 2010, p. 15, available at http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR35/001/2010/
en/6e05b73b-1337-4a57-b80b-4c6d3e7fef61/afr350012010en.pdf
132 Interview with Amnesty International, June 2009.
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