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Praise 3 African Nations for Barring 'Ship of Shame' Gun Cargo to Zimbabwe
24 April 2008
Los Angeles Times, Editorial
It's a rare moment when three African nations, in an effort to forestall violence, block a shipment of weapons to a neighboring country in political turmoil. It's perhaps even a historic development when those weapons were sold by a great power and were bound for a government that is not under United Nations sanctions and has every legal right to buy arms — though no moral right to do so. So let us praise the courageous peoples of South Africa, Mozambique and Zambia... (GunPolicy.org)