CROWD CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES - Omega Research Foundation

provides the following code for its E2 Irritant grenade. 9306 90 10 2001B. It would be useful if this level of data was made publicly available.
399. See for example photograph of Kenyan police using teargas on pro-democracy demonstrators at Uhuru park, Nairobi in May 1997. In Amnesty
International (1997) Kenya - The quest for Justice. AI index: AFR 32/25/97. First published September 1997.
400. Amnesty International (1998) Equipping Kenyan Repression. AI UK Journal. January/February. p14-15.
401. Anglican Communion News Service (1997) Kenya: Police storm cathedral. 11 th July.
402. Independent, 8 th July 1997 Kenyan protestors die in clashes. and Times, 8 th July 1997, p14. Seven die as Police smash Kenyan protests.
403. The tear gas canister was manufactured by Pains Wessex, Salisbury, UK. Designated Standard Hand CS Irritants Mk IV. The plastic baton
round was identified as being manufactured by Haley & Weller, Draycott, Derbyshire, UK. Designated 38mm Baton Round H371 long range
version, which has a propellant giving a range of 90 to 130 metres. Both companies are subsidiaries of Chemring Plc, Portsmouth, UK.
404. Lockman, Zachary. And Beinin, J. (Eds) (1989) Intifada - The Palestinian Uprising against Israeli Occupation. MERIP Publication. p324.
Lists 66 Palestinians killed by tear gas.
405. Nairn, A. (1998) Tear of Rage. Multinational Monitor. April. p15-17.
"..Tear gas is often described as relatively harmless. In a March [1988] interview with New York radio station WBAI-Pacifica, Federal Laboratories President Dr
Dennis Constantine said the gas "is not lethal. It is considered as being an irritant and there are no permanent serious effects because of its use. Anything can be
lethal if used improperly..."
The Federal Laboratories "Riot Control" manual describes the dangers differently... The manual includes formulas for calculating the 'median lethal dosage' of CS
and CN, expressed as the number of minutes it would take to 'kill 50 percent of an exposed group of persons.' In the example quoted at the beginning of the article,
a Federal Laboratories No.230 Flite-Rite projectile containing 25 grams of CN gas can be expected to kill half the inhabitants of an eight-foot by eight-foot by
seven-foot room in seven minutes. They would be expected to live 18 minutes if the CS gas were used instead."
406. Hansard 25 th March 1998, Col 160.
Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the compliance with his Department's ethical
foreign policy of the sale of military, security and police equipment to Kenya. [35969]
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