Non-lethal weapons made in U.S.A. kill some of the 50 human rights defenders this week in Egypts Arab Spring
In what is possibly direct violation of Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions human rights, Egypt's military has been using a banned chemical agent made in the U.S.A on some 17,000 human rights defending protesters participating in Arab Spring over the past couple of days, mainly in Cairo. Since Saturday, at least thirty people have been killed and at least 2000 injured in the clash between military and some 100,000 rights defenders who are demanding democratic change. Medical personnel reported report some of the protesters have been killed by live fire, denied by the military.
At least 30 Egyptians have died and over 2000 wounded, many of whom succumbed to a lethal nerve gas military forces have been using during the past three days in clashes in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square.
"Tear-gas canisters - some stamped ''Made in USA'' - flew through the air, their fumes hanging over the area as the injured were taken to makeshift field hospitals every few minutes," reported Australia's The Age.
Riot police in Egypt have been using an American made neur-toxic nerve gas day and night to disperse rights defenders protesting military rule. The tear gas irritates the eyes and throat and burns the skin - and much more.
The same lethal gas was used at the height of South Africa's apartheid in the 1980s and has been banned by international convention.
An Egyptian neurology expert exaplained that the gas "is not the regular tear gas used in January [during protests]" and was causing "extra-pyramidal symptoms -- involuntary jerks in extremities and trunk mimicking a convulsive seizure."
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