CROWD CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES - Omega Research Foundation

Mr. Fatchett: In accordance with the revised criteria for licensing arms exports, we do not issue arms export licences for Kenya where there is a clearly identifiable
risk that the proposed export might be used for internal repression.
During 1997 we rejected licence applications (together worth over 1.5 million) to export certain types of riot control equipment, including baton rounds and tear
gas, to the Kenyan police. Furthermore, we removed Kenya from the coverage of several Open Individual Export Licences for the supply of body armour, firearms
and ammunition.
407. The Nation 6 th October 1998.
408. Agence France Presse 30 th January 1999 Kenya. Dozens injured as Kenyan police tackle eco-protestors.
409. Agence France Presse 10 th June 1999 Kenyan police and demonstrators clash over constitution.
410. Amnesty International, International Secretariat (1999) Tear Tracks: The trail from Europe to Kenya in The Terror Trade Times. October.
p10.
411. The East African. 2 nd October, 1997 Kenya makes $4.4m Order for Anti-Riot Vehicles.
412. This combination of chemical irritant and marker dye has often led to observers and victims mis-reporting the weapons deployed. For example,
)This time the paramilitary police drove British-made armoured water cannon onto the campus and sprayed the students with an ammonia solution. The water
cannon were part of batch of nine exported to Indonesia in 1995. Dozens of students suffered skin burns. Independent, 27 March 1997 British arms help Jakarta's
war against its own citizens.
413. TAPOL (1997) Statement on the Judicial Review Initiative.25th March 1997.(There was also overwhelming evidence that British and German water
cannon had been out on the streets on 27 July 1996 and that water cannon were used to spray demonstrators with coloured liquid, possibly CS gas(.
414. Amnesty International News Release (1997) Indonesia and East Timor. Arms and security transfers undermine human rights. AI Index ASA 21/39/97. 3 rd
June. Riot control vehicles supplied from the UK to Indonesia during 1994-5 were fitted with powerful water cannons designed to use both tear gas as well as pink
dye. Both types of chemicals have been reportedly used by Indonesian security forces on street protestors.
It is known that such dye has been used to mark street protestors in Jakarta. On 23 May 1997, a photograph and report of a riot control vehicle using pink dye was
published by a UK newspaper. The UK Government has stated that it is opposed to the use of such dye by the Indonesia authorities and agreed on 12 February
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