Meryl
The Premier of South Australia has invited the worlds arms dealers to Adelaide on the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day to check out the business opportunities to be made from arming the Asia Pacific region. On a day normally set aside for remembering the horrors of war, the world’s arms dealers will be thinking only of profit.
The Asia Pacific Defence & Security Exhibition (APDSE) is an international arms fair scheduled to be held in Adelaide, Australia in November 2008.
A trade fair for the war industry, the APDSE at the Adelaide Convention will be one of the biggest arms trade fairs in the Asia Pacific region.
The Premier of South Australia has invited the worlds arms dealers to Adelaide on the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day to check out the business opportunities to be made from arming the Asia Pacific region.
On a day normally set aside for remembering the horrors of war, the world’s arms dealers will be thinking only of profit.
The profits of war are of course, huge and for every person who has their life destroyed by a gun, a mine, a bomb, a razor wire fence or a steel capped boot, for every child orphaned by and for every woman raped in war, there’s an arms dealer making a tidy profit.
On the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day, 11 November 2008, these same profiteering arms dealers will be in the Adelaide Convention Centre making the deals which will end in more people suffering.
Australia is again trying to muscle its way into the world’s arms market, this time on the back of figures which show the Asia Pacific region as being the fastest growing arms market in the world.
The last time the world’s arms peddlars held a show in Australia, AIDEX’91, the Australian people, churches, unions, solidarity and green groups showed them that they were not welcome here and succesfully cancelled the proposed follow up show in 1993.
Although its been 17 years, most Australians still feel the same way.
http://www.apdsexhibition.org/node/13
