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Dealing and Wheeling
Film Forum on the uncontrolled widespread of small arms, which rule and ruin the lives of a growing number of people in developing countries. What is the EU doing about it? With Mrs. Wendela de Vries of Stop Arms Trade
Dealing and Wheeling, a political documentary
Through the eyes of different experts whose lives depend on small arms, the film shows the causes and impact of the trade—both legal, 'grey' and illegal—in small arms and its ammunitions, in particular in regions where the European Union and the United Nations are active, such as former Yugoslavia and Congo. Especially interesting for the western audience, the film shows how brokers—often under some 'organized' legal cover—buy weapons collected by the EU and NATO during their mission in Bosnia. These brokers transfer the weapons directly to African battlefields where they continue their killing lifespan unhindered.
Shot on location in Cambodia, Eastern Congo, Uganda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, the United States and The Netherlands, DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS opens up our consciousness to a global reality rarely shown to the general public.
EU Everyting but Arms (EBA) initiative
EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports
ALDE Seminar on arms trade puts the issue back on the EU’s agenda (23 October 2008)