Le
lundi 18 avril 2016
6時、快晴、24℃、65％。
週末のエクアドル地震も激しかった。
アフリカのニュースを『クオーツ』からもメイルでもらうことにした。
以下の『クオーツ』の記事は一部仏語に訳されて『Slate Afrique』にも出ていた。
「リビアでは航空機迎撃銃をfacebookで購入できる」という。Facebookで検索してみたが、既に消されているようだ。
何もfacebookだけではない。要はインタネットで武器が買えるということだ。なにも今更大騒ぎしてみせるほどのことかいな、と思うが、決済手段が確実なら武器は自由に売買できるのが現実だ。
コレクション用の弾の出ないピストルではない、人を殺傷できるピストルなどの武器をたとえば次のサイトでも売っている。
狩猟や護身用につかうわけじゃなかろうに。
武器商人なんて嫌だな、と単純に考えるのは現実を知らない甘ちょろいユマにストなのだろう。
RDCコンゴの東部の武装強盗集団や反乱軍は、鉱物資源の盗掘、誘拐等をしながらその金で武器をせっせと買っている。ネットで買っているのはリビアだけじゃない。
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| こんな重機もネットで売買 |
In
Libya, you can buy an anti-aircraft gun on Facebook
April
07, 2016 Quartz Africa
An
online marketplace for illicit weapons is thriving in the Middle East and North
Africa, according to a study released today that found sales of heavy machine
guns, rocket and grenade launchers, and anti-aircraft guns on private Facebook
groups in Libya.
During
his 40-year reign, colonel Muammar Gaddafi stockpiled an estimated $30 billion
worth of weapons. At the time, the arms trade was strictly regulated and the
country had limited access to the internet. (Libya is still the only country
where connection speed is on average less than 1.0 Mbp.) Since his overthrow
and death in 2011, those weapons have been flooding into the local marketplace,
and increasingly finding their way online.
The
Small Arms Survey, an independent research project that monitors arms sales,
believes this trade via social media started in 2013 and is still growing.
Sellers posted photos of their wares in groups like the “Libyan Firearms
Market” (now taken down). Heavy machine guns went for an average of 8,125
Libyan dinar ($5,900), rocket launchers for 9,000 Libyan dinar, and an
anti-aircraft system, the Russian-made ZPU-2, got offers for 85,000 Libyan
dinar, or $62,000.
Most of
the weapons being sold were guns, including Kalashinov rifles (around 8,000
Libyan dinars) and handguns. Sellers often did not set a price in their ad, and
preferred to negotiate over the phone or in private messages, but researchers
were able to document average prices.
The
research group recorded 1,346 sales over the course of the last 18 months and
found between 250 and 300 sales posts went up each month. The researchers
believes this figure is just a fraction of the total arms trade taking place on
social media in the region.
Most of
the sales appeared to take place in larger Libyan cities like Tripoli and
Benghazi. Sellers and buyers were mostly militia or individuals buying items
for self defense. Facebook groups ranged from 400 to 14,000 members, according
to the BBC, which was able to look at some of the groups before they were shut
down by the social media giant.
Facebook
has taken down six groups identified as arms marketplaces, according to the New
York Times. Since January, the social media platform has banned individuals or
companies from facilitating sales of private arms on its network.
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