connecting*the*dots

William D. Hartung: …”[L]ow-tech arms have been described as “slow motion weapons of mass destruction,â€? because they are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths over the past dozen years, from the genocide in Rwanda to the ongoing civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yet yesterday, the United States, the world’s largest supplier of small arms, was the only country to vote against an historic United Nations proposal to curb traffic in arms.”…

No sooner did I start my homework assignment from Ethan (I began researching the context of the recent struggles in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how refugees from the Rwandan Genocide sparked the strife a few years back), he goes and drops an incredibly easy to digest post (maps really help) on the current troubles in Somalia.