Source: The Sangai Express / Manipur Info Centre
New Delhi, August 23:
"The international arms trade is out of control.
A thousand people die every day because of armed violence and many more are seriously injured.
Many of the victims are women and children.
In India alone, 12 people die from armed violence every day", says Binalakshmi Nepram , Secretary General of Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI).
She was addressing at the office inauguration of CAFI at B5/146, First Floor, Safdarjung Enclave here on Wednesday evening.
The office was inaugurated by its President Lt.Gen (Dr) BS Malik with lighting the lamp.
She stated that there was no regulation for arms control under international law.
The OXFAM launched control arms campaign in 2003.In the International Arms Trade Treaty organised by the UN General Assembly in New York on October 27 last year, where she attended, 139 countries voted for an Arms Trade Treaty but some countries like India, Pakistan, Israel and Myanmar abstained.
India should lead in Arms Control, she said.