International arms on the curriculum

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4864590.stm

A group of Irish schoolgirls and a nun have set themselves up as an international arms company to highlight the absence of weapons brokerage laws in Ireland.

Their bogus firm was able to secure deals for importing torture equipment with the assistance of local justice group, Afri.

The girls and their teacher, Sister Barbara from Scoil Chriost Ri Presentation Secondary School in Portlaoise, were able to order electric shock batons from Korea and leg irons from South Africa.

They also struck a deal to purchase a mini stone-throwing cannon from an Israeli man - a legal act in Ireland.

The girls' activities are to be shown in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme on Monday.

It alleges the Israeli man turned up in a field in County Meath to demonstrate the cannon.

When he discovered his clients were a bunch of schoolgirls, he then tried to pretend the weapon was a sweet-throwing machine, says Dispatches.


The schoolgirls set up a bogus company with their teacher
On the one hand, we are sending aid to developing countries, yet the money we in the west make from the arms trade dwarfs any aid we give
Sister Barbara

Sister Barbara said she and her pupils "were dumbfounded and shocked that there were no arms brokerage laws in Ireland".

"I like to believe that people in Ireland are working for peace and yet, after seeing how relatively simple it is for schoolgirls to broker arms like electric shock batons, I became aware that we are indirectly supporting terror regimes across the world and playing a part in that cruelty," she said.

"On the one hand, we are sending aid to developing countries, yet the money we in the west make from the arms trade dwarfs any aid we give.

"There is a need for us as Irish people to become aware of this situation and take an active part in stopping it."

im sorry but that made me laugh lol