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(s/ Video) Cluster bombs dropped on Libya funded by Spanish banks

Wednesday, November 23, 2011




Several major Spanish banks are reported to have been financing controversial arms-producing companies which have supplied cluster bombs to Libya.

­Annie Yumi Joh, an anti-war campaigner, told RT a Human Rights Watch report suggests the Instalaza SA Company supplied bombs used by the Libyan leader forces against his own people.

“Instalaza SA produced cluster bombs to be sold to Gaddafi in 2007. We had to figure out who exactly had granted loans to this company and we were surprised to find a number of Spanish banks, even small saving banks, that had provided loans to this company, which undoubtedly had been used to finance the production of cluster arms,” she explained..... MORE
SourceRT.com

URL: http://rt.com/news/libya-spain-gaddafi-cluster-bomb/

1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

totoo kaya ito? ang hr watch group na ito kasi, kung hindi ako nagkakamali, ang nagakusang may hr violations si gadaffi kahit belied ng amnesty international....kung totoo, hayp pa rin pala mga kastilal hanggang ngayon. lol.

"Annie Yumi Joh says it has become possible to trace the connection between the bank that has provided a loan and Instalaza SA who had asked for that loan. A report available online suggests that as many as 14 Spanish banks have been involved in funding the manufacture of the controversial weapons since 2006."

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