After the fall of the Soviet Ukraine, a possible NATO war against surveillance the front line, was

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The world is a weapon for every twelve people each. Illegal arms dealers mission is to arm the other eleven, says the fictional smuggler Yuri Orlov in the movie Lord of War. The merchandise task to implement the smugglers were in real life the last decade, especially in the Ukraine, which disappeared in gigantic quantities surveillance of Soviet-era weapons. KAI Hirvasnoro It was the world's biggest robbery.
After the fall of the Soviet Ukraine, a possible NATO war against surveillance the front line, was left orphan 800 000 Council of the soldier reserved tons of weapons, and again a ton. They rite AK-47 assault surveillance rifles fighter, missiles and armor. Someone stole the soldiers and the authorities courtesy of the Ukrainian Parliament, estimates that $ 32 billion in 1992 - 1998. Poorly-paid ukrainalaissotilaat "wasted" their weapons and commanders made a bigger business.
For example, if an AK-47 bullet's market price was 80 cents, and sold it to the officer "private party" by 20, but recorded a purchase price of 8 cents. Winnings in his own bullet was 12 centimeters and receiving a private what was able to between 20 and 80 centimeters forward of the difference between the purchase of the bullet.
Balances of the 1990s was in demand surveillance in Europe and Africa. Private arms dealers ended up in the hands of one billion assets were sold to a large part of the illicit market Yugoslavia hajoamissotia who visited African armies and military commanders, including the President of Liberia Charles Taylor was the most important. Through him, illegal guns Liberian civilians were killed in addition to civilians in Sierra Leone over ten-year civil war.
Arms smuggling telling Andrew Niccol film Lord of War was the last year of the best. The story is so hot that the film was a financial gain of Hollywood studios outside. The film based on a true story told, but strikingly, it is a reality almost completely. The smuggler Yuri Orlov, the character is built out of five of the world's best-known private arms dealers and most of the events took place in real life in the face of smuggling.
Lord of War came to a low copy number premiere in Finland last autumn, attracting great attention. Now, this American political surveillance drama movie, one of the best in the film is also available on DVD.
Perhaps the film would have aroused greater interest, if it were known that the underlying events are interesting links to Finland. Small arms-producing mass destruction of every year, an arms dealer Yuri Orlov movie is not by chance a native of Ukraine. One of his idols is ukrainalaissyntyinen Leonid Minin and Ukraine became the 1990s, the world's surveillance leading source of illegal weapons. End of the decade the legal arms trade became a country of big export sector.
While weapons of mass destruction surveillance is much talk, so the actual mass destruction bring about the here and now small arms. According to Amnesty International, the world has 639 million to make, and each year produced by eight million surveillance more. Every year, about half a million men, women and children die from armed violence.
But as Yuri Orlov says in the film: the world is the one weapon twelve people each. Arms smugglers mission is to arm them to the other eleven. Routes survived surveillance Minin securities of illegal arms trafficking routes, the key personnel and practices in tracking was achieved through the civil war in Sierra Leone. surveillance The bloody events culminated in January 1999, when Charles Taylor of Liberia supported the rebels invaded the capital Freetown. During the three weeks they killed 4 000 people, raped women and forced children to gangs. Taylor's armed RUF guerrillas trademark of the hands and feet off the people, whom they regarded as opponents.
In response to the violence in Sierra Leone, surveillance the United Nations launched a major peacekeeping operation. Peacekeepers dispatched to the country researchers to find out how and where to Sierra Leone influx surveillance of weapons despite the fact that it was the UN set aseidenvientikiellossa. The researchers were able to track down through Italy. Italian police was arrested in August 2000 in Milan, the Ukrainian businessman Leonid Minin. His hotel room was found cocaine, four prostitutes, of 35 000 dollars in cash, a half-million dollars worth of diamonds and 1 500 documents, which are discussed Minin business. They included oil, diamonds, timber and arms transportation in Africa.
UN investigator, Belgian Johan Peleman explained Leonid Minin securities surveillance of that company owned by