[BRC-ANN] Shoot to Maim -- Israel's Favored Ammo

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Feb 21 10:45:46 PST 2001


From: Jad Abumrad <abumrad at inch.com> Reply-To: editor at villagevoice.com Subject: [BRC-ANN] Shoot to Maim To: brc-announce at lists.tao.ca X-Sender: Jad Abumrad <abumrad at inch.com> X-Description: Black Radical Congress - General Announcements/Alerts Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:56:02 -0500 (EST)

Village Voice

February 21, 2001

Shoot to Maim

Israel's Favored Ammo is Crippling a Generation of Young Palestinians

By Lamis Andoni & Sandy Tolan

"Thousands of Palestinian young men and boys may become permanently crippled from bullet wounds suffered during the last five months of stone-throwing protests against Israeli rule. As with Fouad Mahed, a carpenter from Gaza, many of the 11,000 injuries came when unarmed people were shot."

"The high rates of crippling injuries are in large part due to the fragmenting bullets fired by M16s. The American-made Colt weapons, introduced during the Vietnam War as light-weight field rifles capable of inflicting maximum damage on the enemy, are being used increasingly by the Israel Defense Forces against civilian demonstrators. The M16 ammunition often breaks into tiny pieces after penetration, ripping up muscle and nerve and causing multiple internal injuries, much like those of the internationally banned dumdum bullets."

Full Story:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0108/tolan.shtml

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