Amnesty International has called on the global community to stop war crimes by halting arms shipments to countries such as Iraq, Syria and Israel that could use them to commit “mass atrocities”, JPost reported Wednesday.
“Huge arms shipments were delivered to Iraq, Israel, Russia, South Sudan and Syria in 2014 despite the very high likelihood that these weapons would be used against civilian populations trapped in conflict,” said Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research at Amnesty International.
“When [Daesh] took control of large parts of Iraq, it found large arsenals, ripe for the picking. The irresponsible flow of weapons to human rights abusers must stop now,” said Anna Neistat.
Amnesty issued this call in its annual report, “the State of the World’s Human Rights,” which examined human rights abuses in 160 countries.