Is SG selling nuclear weapons to Myanma Junta?
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Except 'a nuclear bomb'... I really cannot conceptualize any other arms sale item that are "not suitable for countering civilian unrest'"... SG is intent on arming the junta for $$$- simple.
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Nuclear... or UNCLEAR weapons?
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No no no…..why would SG want to sell items that are ‘suitable for countering civilian unrest' when since 1998, there is already a small arms factory in Burma which can make these items.
South China Morning Post
Wednesday July 22 1998
Singapore weapons factory for junta
WILLIAM BARNES in Bangkok
Singapore has supplied Burma's military regime with an arms factory that
was designed and prefabricated by the island state's own weapons maker.
The weapons made in the factory - thought to be EMERK-1 assault rifles with
a bull-pup configuration, which shortens their length, had already started
to be issued to soldiers guarding the controversial Yadana gas pipeline,
according to the latest issue of the authoritative magazine Jane's Defence
Weekly.
Singapore has previously supplied the regime with weapons at a critical
time and has also built a cyber-war centre in Rangoon capable of telephone,
fax and satellite communications.
The purpose-built arms factory was created by Chartered Industries of
Singapore.
Although no official announcement has been made, the plant is understood to
have arrived in Rangoon in 40 containers aboard the Singapore-registered
vessel Sin Ho in February.
A decade ago - near the height of nationwide pro-democracy protests led by
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi - Singapore shipped tonnes of
ammunition, mortars and other war material to Burma.
The shipments were marked as coming from a subsidiary of Chartered
Industries of Singapore - Allied Ordinance, Singapore.
Chartered Industries is the weapons arm of Singapore Technologies which
supplied the regime with its highly efficient cyber-war centre.
The supplies were sent only weeks after the junta emerged following the
retirement of the old dictator, Ne Win.
They included rockets manufacturered under license in Singapore, but
exported without authorisation from Sweden.
Only China is more important to the dictatorial military regime than
Singapore, which has frequently defended not only its links to Rangoon, but
the junta itself.
Last November, Singapore tried to water down a United Nations General
Assembly resolution critical of the regime's refusal to recognise the
overwhelming victory of Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy
in 1990 elections and widespread human rights abuses.
"Our position is different. We have concrete and immediate stakes," argued
the Singapore representative, Bilahari Kausikan, in a letter to the Swedish
mission which drafted the resolution.
Singapore had used weapons sales, military training and intelligence
co-operation to "win a sympathetic hearing at the very heart of Burma's
official councils", said Jane's Intelligence Review in March.
At about the time the small arms factory was arriving in Rangoon, Burma's
intelligence chief, General Khin Nyunt, told a co-ordinating board for the
Myanmar-Singapore Joint Ministerial Working Committee that his officials
should "give priority to projects arranged by Singapore". -
Of course it is all about money! But i don't think sg is selling nuclear weapons to the juntaOriginally posted by enblockvictim:Except 'a nuclear bomb'... I really cannot conceptualize any other arms sale item that are "not suitable for countering civilian unrest'"... SG is intent on arming the junta for $$$- simple.
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i dun think sg possess nulclear weapon to start wif..Originally posted by pearlie27:Of course it is all about money! But i don't think sg is selling nuclear weapons to the junta
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WhAT is So WrOng To SeLL Arms ? ThIs Is OnE WaY To MaKe MonEy. MoRallY WrONg ? NO.
If ThIs Is WrOng, THen PlS Go And ConDaM USA, RuSSiA, ChInA etC As tHeY Culprits of WaRs. TheY SeLL MoRe, ThEir WeApOns Are UsEd To Kill ManY PeoPle.
SaMe LoGic, PleAse Go And CoNDam All SuPPLierS aNd ShoPs ThAt Sell KniVes, paRanGs As The MuRdERs AnD RoBBers UsE ThEm To Commit CrimeS.
AnYONE DiGGiNg OUT ThiS PiEcE of INFO AnD PuTTinG ThE FacT In FrONt of The INTernAtionAl CoMMuniTy is GuiLty Of DiScrEdit Our CoUnTry And TryIng To MakE SinGApore A TarGet of HaTred By OtHer CounTries
RevEaling ThiS Info DoEs MorE HarM ThaN Good To the CounTry As a WhOle and EvenTuaLLY, the Citizens woUld aLso Be AffEcted.
WhO The CloWns TrYing To Play This Fuxking Game ?
WhO Do You Get WhEn MoRe And MoRe CounTries and FoREiGn GroUps
TU LaN SingApoRe ? NoThInG.
SoMe ForEign Groups WhEn They TU LAN The CounTRy, TheY aLso TU LAN SinGAPoREaNs.
GeT IT ? If GoT BrAin, Go And ThINk.
WhEn PeOple HaTe AmEriCa, theY HaTe ThEir CiTizEns And Bomb aNd Attack AmEriciAns In OvERSeas.
WhEn MuSlIm ExTremiSts HaTe AuStrAliA, theY Bomb AuStraliAns in BaLI.
So, WheN FoReign PeOPle HaTe SingApoReans, TheY WOuld FinD ChanCE to HaRm SinGApoReans.
So, SinGapOreAns, PlS DonT Be So SEEtuPIG As CSJ. -
u nev noe......Originally posted by 4getmenot:i dun think sg possess nulclear weapon to start wif.. -
the risk factor is too hugh a price to pay if s'pore 'really' does have nuclear arms in its arsenal..Originally posted by sg mata:u nev noe......