Steymar Arms produces weapons for the world market in Upper Austria. Now the company is planning to deliver a few thousand sniper rifles to Tunisia and the focal land of Iraq. While the deal in North Africa apparently takes place, export to Iraq is on the edge.
In the meantime, in the meantime a Czech investment group, the traditional traditional company Steyr Arms (formerly Steyr Mannlicher) produces weapons for the world market in the Upper Austrian small inhibiting. Including the attack rifle, red-white-red standard equipment, for example for our army and the Elite Police Unit Cobra.
Tunisia has also been familiar for almost 50 years, now wants to retrofify with 8,000 of these long weapons. After months of tugboat from war, in which the company also warned politics that jobs should be dismantled, if this big order is bursting, there is now apparently a great state of exporting different samples.
Although the deal in North Africa apparently takes place, there is an even more sensitive company about the export of war material for Focal Country Iraq on the edge. According to InsiderCirkels, three ministries (outside and defense) have given negative test reports.
In particular, it is around 1000 sniper rifles HS 50 m1 with accessories such as goals, magazines and cleaning devices. The operational width for this weapon is up to one and a half kilometers, the ammunition is sometimes a tank break.
In principle, armament does not fall under the current arms embargo for the country in the Near East, but in one of the statements to the company it says: “In Iraq there is still a very complex location for domestic and safety policy in the middle of a fleeting region with numerous armed conflicts.”
Further criticism: individual militias have developed into political actors, there was a questionable security vacuum on the Iranian border. Moreover, the human rights situation is problematic. Although there is no more death penalty for homosexuality, there are ten years in prison.
Torture in detention centers is with government weapons
Even unpleasant people, usually Sunni Arabs, just disappear. In prisons, torture and deaths are normal. And: the terrorist group can continue to arm itself of the shares of Iraqi security authorities …
The risk that weapons from Austria can come into unpleasant hands, for example, show attack reasons in the Islamist Huthi militias in Yemen or on the Ukraine front.
Source: Krone
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